Talamini Opening Quotes

#1. It had rained on some vivid green ferns in Maine and it was quite beautiful. I was moving the camera slightly and studying the ground glass. Looking at those 20 square inches, trying to find out just what were the right elements to include.

John Sexton

#2. It seldom happens that a man, though extolled as a saint, is really without blemish; or that another, though reviled as a devil, is really without humanity.

Fanny Burney

#3. Man himself, meeked by his Creator, may when taught and tamed, share the divine life.

Anne Fremantle

#4. What did I do? Who did I please to get this lucky?" He pulls his lips from my neck and stares at me with wonder. "Are you for real?

Lynetta Halat

#5. I think the challenge is to takedifficult and painful times and turn them into something beneficial, something that makes you grow.

Michelle Akers

#6. The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.

Cesare Pavese

#7. I didn't leave her there for long. When a player makes a mistake, you always want to put them back in quickly - you don't just berate them and sit them down with no chance for redemption.

Pat Summitt

#8. The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.

Walt Whitman

#9. I love convincing a reader that an unusual or seemingly ordinary subject is worth his or her time - it's part of the fun for me as a writer.

Susan Orlean

#10. To sum it up: Discipline + Self-denial = Cents for the Kingdom!

Michelle Singletary

#11. Which is the best among all kinds of dogs?.... A hotdog. Coz it feeds the hands that bites it.

Anonymous