I do not believe that the average person wants a ‘map’ of his face – I believe he wants to be idealized.
In the business of portrait photography, one must combine the artist and the craftsman.
In most sports they have a physical effect on your performance, in swimming only psychological. If you worry about what your rival is doing, you take your mind off what you are doing and so fail to concentrate on your performance.
The departure of our boys to foreign parts with the ever-present possibility that they might never return, taught the real value of photography to every father and mother. To many a mother the photograph of her boy in his country’s uniform was the one never-failing consolation.
History thus becomes largely a study of character. Insight into temperament is hardly less important than the probing of “original materials.”
Magellan went around the world in 1521, which is not too many strokes when you consider the distance.
Every day you have the opportunity to learn and experience some-thing and some-one new. Seize the opportunity. Learn and experience everything you can, and use it to change the world.
Grief is like manure, if you spread it out it fertilizes, if you leave it in a big pile it smells like crap.
When grief recedes, grief is like a cloud.
Life is life’s greatest gift. Guard the life of another creature as you would your own because it is your own. On life’s scale of values, the smallest is no less precious to the creature who owns it than the largest.
Just to assassinate Michael Brown’s character is wrong.
I made a commitment and a promise to Ms. McSpadden, Michael Browns mother, that I will pursue justice with the family at every avenue, be it on the federal level or at the state level.
Saying sulfates do not cause acid rain is the same as saying that smoking does not cause lung cancer.
We’ve got a Muslim for a president who hates cowboys, hates cowgirls, hates fishing, hates farming, loves gays and we hate him!
Some high society lady said is your horse outside? No ma’am, he’s between my legs, but your too fat to ride.
Good friends, good whiskey, and good lovin’, I want to thank you Lord.
Somewhere between raising hell and amazing grace, Lord I know just how they feel.
If you mind your own business, you’ll stay busy all the time.
I’d love to spit some Beechnut in that dude’s eye and shoot him with my ole forty-five.
I get whiskey bent and hell bound.