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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the...

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.

Quote by Ansel Adams about art, photography, tests

Against the envy of less happier lands.

Against the envy of less happier lands.

Quote by William Shakespeare about philosophy, envy

A good portion of the airport is on ceded lands, and lease money was paid for that. So the state's collecting lease money because all of a sudden ''worthless'' land now has an airport on it.

Quote by Neil Abercrombie about money, state, good, good luck

A lot of the homelands turned out to be land where no water was readily available, no roads, no amenities. So you had your ceded lands of a couple million acres, and y Hawaiian homesteads of a couple hundred thousand acres.

Quote by Neil Abercrombie about couple, water, contentment

We made stabs in the legislature to try to relieve the state of both the burden and obligation of administering lands that otherwise were construed as belonging to Native Hawaiians historically.

Quote by Neil Abercrombie about burden, state

This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or...

This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about fall, fear, hope, nothing, man

This big part flies off on the floor. The other part goes like this and lands in my foot! Standing up! It's standing in my foot! Right in the side of my foot. The flute glass. I think I'm like in one of my own pictures.

Quote by Danny DeVito about rightness

The budget should be balanced. Public debt should be reduced. The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered, and assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about arrogance, public

Acting, to me, is about the incredible adventure of...

Acting, to me, is about the incredible adventure of examining the landscape of human heart and soul. That's basically what we do.

Quote by Glenn Close about adventure, soul, heart, human imperfections

Whenever you drop your equipment in a fire-fight, your...

Whenever you drop your equipment in a fire-fight, your ammo and grenades always fall the farthest away, and your canteen always lands at your feet.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about war, fight, fall, fire, fire brigade, contentment

When you drop a lens cap, the inside part always lands...

When you drop a lens cap, the inside part always lands face down in the mud.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about photography, contentment, face

For him, indeed, human life is, in the first instance, ...

For him, indeed, human life is, in the first instance, only an additional, and as it were incidental grace, upon this expressive landscape.

Quote by Walter Pater about opinion, grace, human imperfections, life

Screen rotation is a combination of software and hardware...

Screen rotation is a combination of software and hardware that allows you to change a monitor between portrait and landscape modes.

Quote by Robert Patterson about computers, change, contentment

Architecture of the nightClear architecture of the night, discerned with difficulty in the landscape... What hour- shaking being silent in the tower of darkness -death and life together devour them? Nothing untouched and healed. And useless bells...

Quote by Aura Christi about poetry, architecture, night, guilt, difficulties, solitude, dark, silence, heads, past

The real voyage of discovery consists of not in seeking...

The real voyage of discovery consists of not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

Quote by Marcel Proust about knowledge, eyes, real estate

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