Candlelight Processional Quotes & Sayings

To me a translator is very, very important. If the fixer is also the translator, so much the better. I have known photographers who didn't speak the language and would work in a place for weeks without one, getting by on common sense and smiles. But how many situations did they miss because they couldn't talk to someone and get the back story on details, small daily life things, etc. — Peter Menzel

The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves. — Joseph Addison

When I was a little kid, I was the first kid in my neighborhood to have a pet alligator. — Benicio Del Toro

Places of genius challenge us. They are difficult. They do not earn their place in history with ethnic restaurants or street festivals, but by provoking us, making demands of us. Crazy, unrealistic, beautiful demands. — Eric Weiner

We understand a person with problems, someone who is wrong about a lot of things in his or her life, who makes messes. We don't understand someone who is constantly right, who is only felled by Kryptonite. Chuck Klosterman had a pretty great book about this whole thing - I Wear The Black Hat - that came out last year and which I greatly enjoyed. — Tod Goldberg

Let us save the tomorrows for work. — Mark Twain

Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself. — Arthur Stanley Eddington

What this means is that children, homemakers, executives, farmers, and long-living persons can all have high ego strength and good mental health if they possess the courage, humor, and flexibility of equilibrium between their rational and metaphoric minds. — Bob Samples

Why should there be just one right way to make a dish when it could be delicious made in different, often simpler, ways? Why did cooking have to be so time-consuming if quicker techniques gave the same results? Why should cooks feel under pressure to do everything "right" by the book, when cooking was meant to be fun? — Daniel Galmiche

[My kitten's] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could. — William Cowper

The Boomers have modeled a set of bad habits, and one grand gesture is not going to unwind all those bad habits. — Eric Liu

Egos are drawn to bigger egos. — Eckhart Tolle

A baby is as pure as an angel and as fresh as a blooming flower. — Debasish Mridha

Don't talk to the crazy kids. I longed to shout back that we weren't crazy. I'd mistaken her kid for a ghost, that's all.
I wondered whether they had books about his sort of thing. Fifty Ways to Tell the Living from the Dead Before You Wind Up in a Padded Room. Yep, I'm sure the library carried that one. — Kelley Armstrong

The Egyptians got it wrong. They wrapped the dead. They did not realize I wrapped the living. — Michael Scott