Ian Simpson Imaging - Photographer for weddings, portraits and modeling. Portfolios, information about services and photo restoration.
"Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Photography "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Photography
"College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Photography Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Photography
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Photography God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Photography
People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Photography Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Photography
"There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Photography Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Photography
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Photography A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Photography
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Photography Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Photography
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Photography When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Photography
The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Photography "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Photography
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Photography Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Photography
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Photography I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Photography
