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- You need to learn to see and compose. The more time you waste worrying about your equipment the less time you'll have to put into creating great images. Worry about your images, not your equipment.
- Ken Rockwell, Your Camera Does Not Matter, 2005
- Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy.
- J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.
- J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: The Movie
- There's a whole segment of the population with a mentality that bases good times on where they can go and what they can buy.
- Jeff Foxworthy
- Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month that I can be myself.
- Roseanne Barr
- Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
- C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
- The truth about your own life is not always easy to accept, and sometimes hasn't even occurred to you.
- Anna Quindlen (1953 - )
- There's a certain kind of conversation you have from time to time at parties in New York about a new book. The word "banal" sometimes rears its by-now banal head; you say "underedited," I say "derivative." The conversation goes around and around various literary criticisms, and by the time it moves on one thing is clear: No one read the book; we just read the reviews.
- Anna Quindlen (1953 - )
- I think that anyone who comes upon a Nautilus machine suddenly will agree with me that its prototype was clearly invented at some time in history when torture was considered a reasonable alternative to diplomacy.
- Anna Quindlen (1953 - )
- If God is watching us, as some believers suggest, as though we were a television show and God had a lot of free time, the deity would surely be bemused by how dumbed-down devotion has sometimes become in this so-called modern era. How might an omnipotent being with the long view of history respond to those who visit the traveling exhibit of a grilled-cheese sandwich, sold on eBay, that is said to bear the image of the Virgin Mary? It certainly argues against intelligent design, or at least intelligent design in humans.
- Anna Quindlen (1953 - ), Newsweek, 01-02-06
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