Midlands RPS Digital Imaging Group - Special interest group within the Royal Photographic Society. Contains meetings, venue, fees and contacts.
I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Photography Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Photography
"Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) 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 She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Photography When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Photography
Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Photography Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Photography
"There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Photography Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Photography
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Photography "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Photography
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Photography Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Photography
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Photography Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Photography
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Photography He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Photography
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Photography Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Photography
With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Photography "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Photography
"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Photography "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Photography
