"The problem in the 19th century with information was that we lived in a culture of information scarcity, and so humanity addressed that problem beginning with photography and telegraphy and the - in the 1840s. We tried to solve the problem of overcoming the limitations of space, time, and form."

-- Neil Postman

#Photography Quotes #Space Quotes #Humanity Quotes

“Half the world wants to be like Thoreau worrying about the noise of traffic on the way up to Boston; the other half use up their lives being part of that noise. I like the second half.”

Source : Franz Kline, Harry F. Gaugh (1979). “Franz Kline, the Color Abstractions”
“Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.”

Source : A. R. Ammons (1998). “Glare”, p.10, W. W. Norton & Company
“Yeah, I think it's an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling.”
“While women certainly have made great strides toward pay parity in the past 30 years, there is still a gap in earnings between men and women in equivalent professions.”
“I like the Bible folded between lids of cloth, or calfskin, or morocco, but I like it better when, in the shape of a man, it goes out into the world-a Bible illustrated.”

Source : Thomas De Witt Talmage (1872). “Sermons”, p.240
“The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all.”
“I'm not the kind of writer that can wake up and say, "Okay, I'm gonna write a song today," and have that song be the kind I would want to record. The songs of mine that I end up liking are songs that come from real experience. They're like chapter titles in my life.”
“Whether your life is destined to be short or to be long, along the way on that journey, if you access that inner power, not only will you change your life in a positive way, you'll ultimately help change other peoples lives. You will be carrying something forward.”

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