Archive for August, 2008

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• A dream collage is pictures of your goals. It is like your future photo album. ~ Bo Bennett
• Before a painter puts a brush to his canvas he sees his picture mentally…. If you think of yourself in terms of a painting, what do you see?… Is the picture one you think worth painting?… You create yourself in the image you hold in your mind. ~ Thomas Dreier
• Digital has obviously changed things a lot, but not all for the better as far as I’m concerned. Of course it’s much more convenient and you’re getting instant results, but to me it just lacks the finesse of a roll of film and it has a slightly superimposed feel. ~ Graeme Le Saux
• I’d very much like to create my own style as a photographer, even if it’s just for myself. ~ Graeme Le Saux
• Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of their own. There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph. ~ Robert Heinecken
• Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited and the wealth and confusion man has created. ~ Edward Steichen
• We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment. ~ John McDonald

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• A book is a garden carried in the pocket.~ Saudi Arabian Proverb
• A book is a gift you can open again and again.~ Garrison Keillor
• A book is the only immortality.~ Rufus Choate
• A classic is a book which people praise and don’t read.~ Mark Twain
• A good book praises itself.~ German Proverb
• A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book.~ Irish Proverb
• A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.~ William Styron
• A man is happy when he has books, but happier still when he does not need them.~ Chinese Proverb
• A pack of cards is the devil’s prayer book.~ German Proverb
• A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month’s study of books.~ Chinese Proverb
• A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way. ~ Caroline Gordon
• A wise man without a book is like a workman with no tools.~ Moroccan Proverb
• Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.~ Mark Twain
• Better than the ignorant are those who read books; better still are those who retain what they read; even better are those who understand it; the best of all are those who go to work.~ Indian Proverb
• Beware of a man of one book.~ English Proverb
• Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence. ~ Jan Morris
• Books and friends should be few but good.~ Traditional Proverb
• Books are humanity in print.~ Barbara W. Tuchman
• Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time. ~ Edwin P. Whipple
• Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.~ Henry David Thoreau
• Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.~ Elizabeth Hardwick
• Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.~ William Feather
• Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all ~ Abraham Lincoln
• Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.~ Oprah Winfrey
• Borrowed wives, like borrowed books, are seldom returned.~ American Proverb
• Don’t judge a book by its cover.~ English Proverb
• Every age has its book.~ Arabian Proverb
• Every book must be chewed to get out its juice.~ Chinese Proverb
• If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it’s great, it should be read at least three times.~ Anatole Broyard
• It is better to be entirely without a book than to believe it entirely.~ Chinese Proverb
• Knowledge without wisdom is a load of books on the back of an ass.~ Japanese Proverb
• Master books, but do not let them master you. – Read to live, not live to read.~ Owen Meredith
• My Book and Heart Must never part.~ Books quotes
• Old truths, old laws, old friends, old books, and old wine are best.~ Polish Proverb
• Only through suffering and sorrow do we acquire the wisdom not found in books.~ Japanese Proverb
• Only your friends steal your books. ~ Voltaire
• People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them. ~ George Bernard Shaw
• Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all. ~ Henry David Thoreau
• Scholars talk books, butchers talk pigs.~ Chinese Proverb
• Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.~ Francis Bacon, Sr.
• Teachers die, but books live on.~ Dutch Proverb
• The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.~ John Greenleaf Whittier
• The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.~ Oscar Wilde
• The book you don’t read can’t help. ~ Jim Rohn
• The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.~ American Proverb
• There’s no thief like a bad book.~ Italian Proverb
• These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.~ Gilbert Highet
• The sight of books removes sorrows from the heart.~ African Proverb
• The world is the book of women.~ French Proverb
• Walls are the notebooks of fools.~ Arabian Proverb
• We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.~ B. F. Skinner
• Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.~ Heinrich Heine
• Whoever writes a book, should be ready to accept criticism.~ Iraqi Proverb
• Years know more than books.~ American Proverb
• You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.~ Paul Sweeney
• If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it. ~ Toni Morrison
• The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.~ Theodore Parker

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