Clock

We spend our lives on the run: we get up by the clock, eat and sleep by the clock, get up again, go to work - and then we retire. And what do they give us? A bloody clock - Dave Allen

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it - Golda Meir

I loathe the expression 'What makes him tick' ... A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm - James Thurber

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning - Peter De Vries

All of us are watchers - of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway - but few are observers. Everyone is looking, not many are seeing - Peter M. Leschak

Commencement speakers have a good deal in common with grandfather clocks: Standing usually some six feet tall, typically ponderous in construction, more traditional than functional, their distinction is largely their noisy communication of essentially common knowledge - W. Willard Wirtz, US Secretary of Labor

Photography

Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasureable it my be - Edward Weston

View a negative experience in your life like you'd look at a photo negative. A single negative can create an unlimited number of positive prints - Gerhard Gschwandtner

No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen - Minor White

Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure - Tony Benn

Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer, it is my task to reveal it if I can - Yousuf Karsh

Sculptor / Sculpture

Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style peculiarly his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones - Henry David Thoreau

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work - Henry Moore

You do not make sculpture because you like wood. That is absurd. You make sculpture because the wood allows you to express something that another material does not allow you to - Louise Bourgeois

Sculpture, by its nature, is a thing. The sculptor is dealing with space itself, rather than the illusion of space - George Rickey

Light & Darkness

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness - Chinese proverb

The darkest hour has only 60 minutes - Morris Mandel

When in the dark is it better to move or stand still? If still, you won't bump into anything - but you won't find the light either - Norm Howe

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars - Og Mandino

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light - Plato

Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it - Louis-Ferdinand Celine

What is to give light must endure burning - Viktor Emil Frankl

Newspapers/Journalism

Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff - Adlai Ewing Stevenson

Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive - Gilbert Keith Chesterton

How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read - Karl Kraus

Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand - Lord Northcliffe

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands - Oscar Wilde

War

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity - Dwight D. Eisenhower

The first who was king was a fortunate soldier: Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors - François Marie Arouet (Voltaire)

All of us who served in one war or another know very well that all wars are the glory and the agony of the young - Gerald R. Ford

What pity is it that we can die but once to serve our country! - Joseph Addison

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve - Albert Schweitzer

Family

Family life is the normal context in which we can learn that a life filled with thinking about others instead of ourselves is the sure road to the most fulfilling joys and satisfactions - Alan Keyes

The most powerful ties are the ones to the people who gave us birth ... it hardly seems to matter how many years have passed, how many betrayals there may have been, how much misery in the family: We remain connected, even against our wills - Anthony Brandt

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them - Desmond Tutu

To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others - Pope John Paul II

Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found - Winston Churchill

The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together - Erma Louise Bombeck