Archive of A Picture A Quote

“We’ve got to make sure that people understand the choices that are at stake.” (Barack Obama)

Obama 2008 Presidential Campaign · photo by Barack Obama on flickr.com

With this clever quote I wish you an exciting last couple of days before an election that will make history, no matter how it turns out… So do you understand what’s at stake for you, lieber Reader?

As seen from my apartment I just moved into.

“In all beginnnings dwells a magic force.” (Herman Hesse, German-Swiss Novelist)

“The wall is there for you to show how bad you want it.” (Randy Pausch in The Last Lecture)

Overhead · photo by konaboy on flickr.com

Put Your Carry-On Sorrows In The Overhead Wave. And sometimes, it’s a wall whose energy you can ride. That’ll explain the picture attached in this post.

Learn the past, watch the present, and create the future. 

Again a really good picture from Jon Shaft. I already liked the picture in the little Flickr preview, but grew to love it even more when I read a comment submitted to “My Daily Routine”:

super hero shaft… peers over his town from his modest Chicago apartment. great shot man. (comment by ryanpphoto.com)

my daily routine · photo by jonshaft on flickr.com

The Perosn Who Doesn’t Make Mistakes is Unlikely to Make Anything.

vespa mistake · photo by jonshaft on flickr.com

Jon Shaft, one of my latest flickr favorite discoveries, writes as a citation for his “Happy Mistake”:

vespa mistake. this is what photographers call a “happy mistake”: I set up the xpan with the self timer set, and ran to sit next to erica, but forgot to change the timer from 2 seconds to 10 seconds. happy mistake.

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom (Bob Dylan, US singer & songwriter, 1941 -) 

Creating ‘The Path to 9/11″ · photo by dimsumranch on flickr.com

Read what people (on twitter) where doing the day two plane crashed into the World Trade Center (plus the one that crashed into the Pentagon) and had a huge impact on world politics. Funny how we all remember what we did on days like these.

Literal Liberal translation of the quote below: Who hears butterflies laugh, knows what clouds taste like. Everyone who can hear a butterfly’s giggle, hands up? Anyone? Anyone?

I ran across this quote on the huge blackboard hovering over the food/drink distributing spots (okay, what would you call it? Bar where you can watch them cook?) at the Vapiano. A resteraunt I’ve “frequented” a lot lately! Best pasta (Linguini Pesto) and best pizza (Pesto con spinaci). But that is meant as a sidenote, I hope it still qualifies as A Picture A Quote entry, or should I - considering my unexhaustive talkiveness - rename it to A Picutre A Quote and A Buttload of Phil’s Senf (Senf is German for mustard; a proverb for someone’s - slightly cheap - opinion. English equivalent of to give/add my 2 cents.) Boom wacko (what a neat term for, woo, suprise,surprise), it just turned into a mini retro Lingo-Bingo. What would a psychotherapist say about this chain of associations? Massive and severe blogging deprivation. I guess.

Wer Schmetterlinge lachen hört,
der weiß, wie Wolken schmecken. (by Carlo Karges, 1951-2002)

Flying Yellow Butterfly · photo by M-Louis on flickr.com

I really get excited when I get twitter updates on the Mars mission Phoenix. As I said, space and the vast universe, we are planted in like a seed, lures me away with an even vaster fascination.

Also I wonder if we are all ever get to enjoy space tourism. According to the quote attached below, the future belongs to those who take off from Earth and head some place free from forces that kept us on Planet Earth from birth on.

The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth. (Alfred North Whitehead, English mathematician & philosopher, 1861 - 1947)

The Unisphere · Also a nice wallpaper! Click to get it in the orginal file size · by eqqman