Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

Albert Einstein

Virtually everything we were told in Indonesia turned out not to be true, sometimes almost immediately. The only exception to this was when we were told that something would happen immediately, in which case it turned out not to be true over an extended period of time.

Douglas Adams

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

Albert Einstein

Ford grabbed him by the lapels of his dressing gown and spoke to him as slowly and distinctly and patiently as if he were somebody from a telephone company accounts department.  

 Douglas Adams

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

  Plato

Sin is geographical.

Bertrand Russell

If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation will you prefer the grain to the vote?

Bertrand Russe

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

Tallulah Bankhead

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Albert Camus

Children are the most expensive form of entertainment.

Mihaela Iosof

Pessimists remind us that lilies belong to the onion family, and optimists that onions belong to the lily family.

Yolaine Dippenweiler

Don't spend two dollars to dry clean a shirt. Donate it to the Salvation Army instead. They'll clean it and put it on a hanger. Next morning buy it back for seventy-five cents.

Billiam Corone

If you wish to make an apple pie truly from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

Carl Sagan

There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on...

Robert Byrne

Photography Quotes

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do -- that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.

Diane Arbus

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter, because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the ordinary.

David Bailey

The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.

Brooks Anderson

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

Every time someone tells me how sharp my photos are, I assume that it isn't a very interesting photograph. If it were, they would have more to say.

Author Unknown

All photographs are accurate.  None of them is the truth.

Richard Avedon

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense, and is, thereby, a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.

  Ansel Adams