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“One man’s “magic” is another man’s engineering. “Supernatural” is a null word.”
― Robert Heinlein

“Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

“I need to stop getting into situations where all my options are potentially bad.”
― Jack Campbell, Dauntless

“The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.”
― Orson Welles

“There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized. Or even cured.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

“I scrolled on down to the obituaries. I usually read the obituaries first as there is always the happy chance that one of them will make my day.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

“Shine and shimmer my Harvest Moon,
illuminate the shadows in the sky.”
― A.F. Stewart, Reflections of Poetry

“Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile.”
― Robert Jordan

“For it is easier to shout 'Stop!', than to do it.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

“But I spoke hastily. We must not be hasty. I have become too hot. I must cool myself and think; for it is easier to shout stop! than to do it.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

“When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in Black and white, you photograph their souls!”
― Ted Grant

“When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.”
― Robert Frank

“Don’t pack up your camera until you’ve left the location.”
― Joe McNally, The Moment It Clicks: Photography Secrets from One of the World's Top Shooters

“A professor I had in college used to tell me that if someone won’t listen to what you have to say because you’re not wearing a tie, then put on a tie, ’cause what you have to say is more important than not wearing a tie. He was right.”
― Joe McNally

“Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.”
― Henri Cartier-Bresson

“...if we consider the difference between William Henry Jackson packing in his cameras by mule, and the person stepping out of his car to take a picture with an Instamatic, it becomes clear how some of our space has vanished; if the time it takes to cross space is a way by which we define it, then to arrive at a view of space 'in no time' is to have denied its reality.”
― Robert Adams

“There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world- its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles.”
― Anne Rice, Servant of the Bones

“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.”
― Socrates

“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
― Socrates

“If you want me, just whistle. You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow."

(as Marie 'Slim' Browning in To Have and Have Not)”
― Lauren Bacall, The Complete Films of Humphrey Bogart

“Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses -because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn't stop you from doing anything at all.”
― Richard P. Feynman