hohansen’s most recent Quotables

The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

When we don't find the logical answer, we settle for a stupid one. Ritual is what happens when we ran out of rational.

To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.

A camera exposes more than just an image. It also exposes the photographer.

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that do not work.

If religious people could be reasoned with there would be no religious people.

Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.

By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.

If you are depressed, you are living in the past.
If you are anxious, you are living in the future.
If you are at peace, you are living in the present.

A good friend will bail you out of jail. A best friend will be sitting next to you saying 'Dude, that was awesome!'

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?

The less you know, the better you sleep.

How is education supposed to make me feel smarter?  Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain.  Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive?

Marge, it takes two to lie - one to lie, and one to listen.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

Trying to forget someone you loved is like trying to remember someone you never even knew.