“I reckon responsible behavior is something to get when you grow older. Like varicose veins.”
Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters
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Not Yet, Not Yet, Not Yet …
Tag: #Wednesday Quotes
Three Opinions on Abstract Art
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
Pablo Picasso
It’s not what you look at what matters. It’s what you see.
Henry David Thoreau
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
Al Capp
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And Thanks for All the Flowers
“Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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Rhine Valley
“Gut! Wenn ich wählen soll, so will ich Rheinwein haben.
Das Vaterland verleiht die allerbesten Gaben.”“Good! if I have the choice, so let the wine be Rhenish!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust I
Our Fatherland can best the sparkling cup replenish.”
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Aragorn, Is that You?
“From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
Definitely a renewed blade, look how shiny it is. Who is holding it, though? I have no idea. The sculpture is overlooking the Place of the Republic in Plsen, Czech Republic.
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Photographers Beware!
“But if it is true that the act of observing changes the thing which is observed, it’s even more true that it changes the observer.”
Terry Pratchett, Soul Music
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A Vivid Promise
“What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.”
Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
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Not a Seagull, a River Neckar Gull
Wordless Wednesday
Where Would I Cycle Without Bridges?
I’ve gone off on a tangent, I admit, but once I found the Jack London quote I just had to.
“Ever bike? Now that’s something that makes life worth living!…Oh, to just grip your handlebars and lay down to it, and go ripping and tearing through streets and road, over railroad tracks and bridges, threading crowds, avoiding collisions, at twenty miles or more an hour, and wondering all the time when you’re going to smash up. Well, now, that’s something! And then go home again after three hours of it…and then to think that tomorrow I can do it all over again!”
Jack London
Although there were motorbikes as early as 1885, the way Jack London describes it I believe he was talking about cycling. Which is also born out by a number of mountain bike tracks named after the author.
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