Mibs Quotes & Sayings

Photography is much more about elimination than inclusion. The images we make with a lens typically eliminate ninety percent of our field of view and everything that is out of our field of view. The shutter slices time, eliminating all moments before and after it opens and closes. Three dimensions are reduced to two. And in some cases color is removed. How can we call these kinds of artifacts unaltered? — John Paul Caponigro

In most ways, Mibs, we Beaumonts are just like other people...We get born, and sometime later we die. And in between, we're happy and sad, we feel love and we feel fear, we eat and we sleep and we hurt like everyone else.

- Momma — Ingrid Law

That which attempts to elevate the ugly to the level of beauty becomes neither; but an obscenity. — John Donne

I began to realize how hard it was to separate all the voices to hear the single, strong one that came just from me."

- Mibs Beaumont — Ingrid Law

The first question to be asked and answered in every contingency of life being: How will this thought or action contribute to, or interfere with, the achievement, by me and the greatest possible number of other individuals, of man's Final End? — Aldous Huxley

However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious. — Bjarne Stroustrup

The devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon! Where got'st thou that goose look? — William Shakespeare

I'd like to say it could have been worse. I'm sure lots of people hate their job, or their boss, or the people they work with. I just couldn't relate to those people. They have options. They can quit their job, move out of town, or drop off the grid. The only option I had was a guaranteed one-way ticket to Hell when I died, and that didn't include dental. — H.D. Smith

No lies, remember? I'm dead fucking serious here. I am like, head over friggin' heels, butterflies and puppies, hearts and fucking kitty cats in love with you. — C.M. Stunich

There is a peculiar pathos in the extinction of a nation. — Homer B. Hulbert

Heartbreak sounds like dead silence. For a second. Then the world crashes and continues around you. — Cynthia A. Rodriguez

I belong to quite a lot of learned societies. We collect firearms and discuss them at dinners and clubs and things. — Michael Gambon

And this I know: all these things that now, while we are still in the war, sink down in us like a stone, after the war shall waken again, and then shall begin the disentanglement of life and death. — Erich Maria Remarque

It is part of the human experience that we are constantly gripping a good fellow by the shoulders and wishing him well, taking comfort from the notion that we will hear word of him soon enough. But — Amor Towles

In fact, to me it's liberating to not think of identity as some organic property that we have to find and stick to, but actually something that is constructed, or that's imposed, that we can then counter by taking a different route and re-dressing it, and then re-dressing it again, and then re-dressing it again. — Todd Haynes

Mental burden don't let life run smoothly. — Kishore Bansal