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04/08/2011 07:39:20 PM · #1

"They danced down the streets like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!"

Jack Kerouac, On The Road

I get SHIVERS reading that. I can read it over and over and over and over..... *heart*

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Bear_Music

Sony 24-70mm F4 Vario-Tessar T* FE OSS

04/08/2011 07:47:20 PM · #2

And Nature from a simple recipe â��
Rocks, water, mist, a sunlit winter's day â��
Has brewed a cup whose strength has dizzied me.

â�� John Wain

yakatme

Lytro Illum Light Field Digital

Nikon AF-S Nikkor 17-35mm f/2.8D IF-ED

04/08/2011 07:49:53 PM · #3

"You must have hated that moose."

-Arthur

Tamron SP AF 17-50mm f/2.8 Di II LD Aspherical (IF) for Canon

04/08/2011 07:54:09 PM · #4

Originally posted by yakatme:

"You must have hated that moose."

-Arthur

I wish I'd seen that, that made me laugh!

"Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living."

Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

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curtpetguy

Canon EOS-50D

04/08/2011 08:03:43 PM · #5

We are making photographs to understand what our lives mean to us.

Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 DL Macro Super for Nikon

04/08/2011 08:16:23 PM · #6

Originally posted by curtpetguy:

We are making photographs to understand what our lives mean to us.

is this you? I love it.

i googled that and found this, which I LOVE, because I hate cell phones, texting...ALL OF IT - //www.cracked.com/article_15231_7-reasons-21st-century-making-you-miserable.html

epescala

Nikon D7500

04/08/2011 08:16:40 PM · #7

"..the camera need not be a cold mechanical device. Like the pen, it is as good as the man who uses it. It can be the extension of mind and heart..." - John Steinbeck

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spiritualspatula

Panasonic LUMIX DMC-LX100

Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED

04/08/2011 10:58:01 PM · #8

I'll go with a photography quote for now (the one in my profile, even), but I love quotes...

At our best and most fortunate we make pi...ctures because of what stands in front of the camera, to honor what is greater and more interesting than what we are. We never accomplish this perfectly, though in return we are given something perfect- a sense of inclusion. Our subject thus redefines us, and is part of the biography by which we want to be known.
-Robert Adams

MikeO

Fujifilm x100

04/09/2011 03:18:43 AM · #9

When you photograph people in colour you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in B&W, you photograph their souls! ~Ted Grant

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04/09/2011 03:34:16 AM · #10

Quotes... I can't remember any off the top of my head, but what immediately came to mind was "Winnie-the-Pooh". Have you ever read it as an adult? It is the most wonderful, soothing, peaceful thing one can ever read, imo. The language is magnificent.

Now you guys are stuck. I'm going to have to find my Winnie-the-Pooh book and give a quote each day. The first one isn't a quote from the book itself -- it's the dedication of the book from A.A. Milne to his wife:

___________________

To Her

Hand in hand we come

Christopher Robin and I

To lay this book in your lap.

Say you're surprised?

Say you like it?

Say it's just what you wanted?

Because it's yours--

Because we love you

Bear_Music

Sony 24-70mm F4 Vario-Tessar T* FE OSS

04/09/2011 03:40:56 AM · #11

Originally posted by vawendy:

I could spend a happy morning
seeing Roo.
I could spend a happy morning
being Pooh.
For it doesn't seem to matter,
if I don't get any fatter
(and I DON'T get any fatter)
what I do!

Above from memory... They used to call me "Pooh" :-)

R.

Canon EF 28-135mm F/3.5-5.6 IS USM

04/09/2011 03:45:56 AM · #12

Originally posted by Bear_Music:

Originally posted by vawendy:
Quotes... I can't remember any off the top of my head, but what immediately came to mind was "Winnie-the-Pooh". Have you ever read it as an adult? It is the most wonderful, soothing, peaceful thing one can ever read, imo. The language is magnificent.

I could spend a happy morning
seeing Roo.
I could spend a happy morning
being Pooh.
For it doesn't seem to matter,
if I don't get any fatter
(and I DON'T get any fatter)
what I do!

Above from memory... They used to call me "Pooh" :-)

R.

Robert -- I just knew that if anyone appreciated Winnie-the-Pooh, it would be you!! I do have a lot of the poems/songs in memory, but I don't trust that they're completely right, so I'm going back to the original. It's been a couple of years, so it's time. What's so incredible about AA Milne, is that his language is so grammatically incorrect, yet so incredibly perfect.

Kelli

Canon EOS-D60

04/09/2011 03:51:43 AM · #13

This one makes me appreciate what's in front of me at the moment...

â��We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory.â�� ~ Henri Cartier-Bresson

manish

Canon EOS-7D

Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6

04/09/2011 04:26:38 AM · #14

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kenskid

Nikon D700

Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED

04/09/2011 05:32:20 AM · #15

"Now he was master of the world, and he was not quite sure what to do next. "But he would think of something."

Last line feom book.
2001 A Space Odyssey

raish

Olympus C-2500L

Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D

04/09/2011 07:06:34 AM · #16

Granny Weatherwax: Things that try to look like things often look more like things than things. Well known fact.
â��Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

e.g.

KarenNfld

04/09/2011 08:19:45 AM · #17

A couple of my favourite quotes. Not photographt related though.

"You never get a second chance to make a good first impression"

"There are things we will never see unless we walk to them." - Thomas A. Clark"

"Nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight; Got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight" - from the song Lovers in a Dangerous Time by Bruce Cockburn

BrennanOB

Canon EOS-1D Mark II

Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon

04/09/2011 08:41:19 AM · #18

"The journey of a thousand miles begins beneath one's feet" Lao Tzu

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars" Oscar Wilde

apercep

Canon EOS-450D Rebel XSi

Tamron SP AF 17-50mm f/2.8 Di II LD Aspherical (IF) for Canon

04/09/2011 08:54:00 AM · #19

"Its not until you lose everything that you are free to do anything."

Tyler Durden.

GeneralE

Canon PowerShot S3 IS

Canon 12x IS USM (S3 IS built-in Lens) -- 36-432mm (35mm EQ)

04/09/2011 09:54:13 AM · #20

Originally posted by BrennanOB:

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars" Oscar Wilde

Practically anything he wrote could go here ... ;-)
"Dreamers can find their way by moonlight and their only punishment is that they see the dawn before the rest of the world."
-Oscar Wilde

I recently got the opportunity to see Hal Holbrook do his one-man show "Mark Twain Tonight" live; I first saw it TV as a kid. One of my favorites from that one ...

"When I was fourteen my father was so stupid I could barely stand to have the old man around. But by the time I was twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in the last seven years."
-Mark Twain

04/09/2011 09:57:05 AM · #21

Originally posted by vawendy:

I haven't, but I'm going to! I love it! :)

04/09/2011 09:58:27 AM · #22

This quote really puts goals into perspective for me:

"The Mountain looks unscalable from afar, but not when you are climbing it."

04/09/2011 10:02:11 AM · #23

Originally posted by kichu:

You will enjoy it so much!! When you read it, you have this incredible sense of tranquility and rightness wash over you. :)