Quotes
Marygreen did not change in sixteen years. It had changed little enough in the past two years.
It was a woman's bedroom, actually a boudoir, and no man belonged in it except by invitation.
Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.
The music stuff has been very difficult. It's got to be right, and even then, it better be on key.
Keeping busy: This is a problem that you're glad to have.
I do get a lot of requests for specific things.
We planted last spring some 20 acres of Indian corn and sowed some 6 acres of barley and peas, and according to the manner of the Indians, we manured our ground with herrings or rather shads, which we have in great abundance and take with great ease at our doorsteps.
We exercised with our weapons, many of the Indians also coming amongst us, and among the rest their greatest king.
Others were exercised in fishing, about cod and bass and other fish, of which they took good store, of which every family had their portion.
Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.
Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.
Assumptions are the termites of relationships. I wrote that.
I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years, the actual experience of course fades, but the flavor of it doesn't. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully?
I tend to wear outfits that match the walls.
I push for what I think can be the best, and if I feel they're not going for the best, it kills me.
I make decisions for my life, not the other way around. Besides, when you have a kid, you must weigh everything against time with your child.
I have a thing with the camera. The lens is unconditional. It doesn't judge you.
I don't believe in careers. I believe in work. I'm not interested in some 'big picture that would be really good for me'.
P. J. Wingate
"Give us this day our daily bread" is probably the most perfectly constructed and useful sentence ever set down in the English language.