Holiday Quips Quotes & Sayings

I work even in the middle of the day, in the full sunshine, and I enjoy it like a cicada. — Vincent Van Gogh

I felt like a fighter who was training for a title bout that had not been booked yet. — Robert Downey Jr.

Consciousness of self was an inherent function of matter once it was organized as life, and if that function was enhanced it turned against the organism that bore it, strove to fathom and explain the very phenomenon that produced it, a hope-filled and hopeless striving of life to comprehend itself, as if nature were rummaging to find itself in itself - ultimately to no avail, since nature cannot be reduced to comprehension, nor in the end can life listen to itself. — Thomas Mann

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in proper figures. — Joseph Addison

Patience and tranquility of mind contribute more to cure
our distempers as the whole art of medicine — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The camera only facilitates the taking. The photographer must do the giving in order to transform and transcend ordinary reality. The problem is to transform without deforming. He must gain intensity in form and content by bringing a subjective order into an objective chaos. — Ernst Haas

In Kazakhstan, once you're someone's guest, it's really hard to get away - everyone wants you to stay. They believe that if you invite a guest, luck will fly into your house. — Tim Cope

Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how could one be responsible for his actions? Others hold that each decision must be considered and committed to, that without commitment there is chaos. Such people are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each. — Alan Lightman

Sophie was too old for lies and too young for the truth. — Kristin Hannah