"The question is not whether a picture is good, in some formal, technical sense, but, does it mean what I need it to mean? Writers can edit sentences that may be well-crafted but that don't express an intended thought. But in photography, there are no revisions: A photograph is in or it's out, and the photographer must live with the consequences of his or her choices."

-- Thomas Roma

#Photography Quotes #Mean Quotes #Choices Quotes

“After much thought and prayer, I have come to my own personal conclusion that we shouldn't tell people who they can love or who they can marry.”

Source : "Sen. Hagan backs same-sex marriage rights" by The Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. March 27, 2013.
“The former conviction that these two kingdoms were wholly different in structure, in function, and in kind of life, was not seriously disturbed by the difficulties which the naturalist encountered when he undertook to define them.”

Source : Asa Gray (1880). “Natural Science and Religion: Two Lectures Delivered to the Theological School of Yale College”
“With a single drop of ink for a mirror, the Egyptian sorcerer undertakes to reveal to any chance comer far-reaching visions of the past. This is what I undertake to do for you, reader.”
“The fridge had been emptied of all Dudleyâ€™s favorite things â€” fizzy drinks and cakes, chocolate bars and burgers â€” and filled instead with fruit and vegetables and the sorts of things that Uncle Vernon called â€œrabbit food.”
“I just refuse to listen to any more lies. You hear them from FEMA, you hear them from Red Cross and I just didn't want to hear it from him.”
“The Bible, which ranges over a period of four thousand years, records but one instance of a death-bed conversion (the thief on the cross) - one that none may despair, and but one that none may presume.”
“Im a soulless lawyer. Give me any opinion and I can argue it.”
“Damn, I can't wait until it get dark, So I can light these fireworks up at the park, And celebrate my independence, It's the 4th of July, but I ain't got 10 cents.”

Source : Song: Holiday Madness, Album: Neva Again, 1993

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