David Travis quotes

“One thing is to escape from prison, but what the Texas 7 did that night crossed the line they should have never crossed.”
-- David Travis

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“Contrails are denser and block sunlight much more than natural cirrus clouds.”
-- David Travis

Source : "9/11 study: Air traffic affects climate". Interview with Richard Stenger, www.cnn.com. August 8, 2002.

#Block Quotes #Clouds Quotes #Sunlight Quotes

“For the artist who practises photography, capturing the image is learning how to sketch on some medium, but is only half the challenge; learning how to print is applying a subjective pallet to that sketch, and completes the creative process.”
-- David Travis

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“Photography is a unique art that allows people to go back, not only to rediscover themselves but also to get something in print for the first time.”
-- David Travis

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“There exists an infinite universe between the boundaries of light and darkness; the photographer explores this chasm in a ship of the imagination, that is the camera.”
-- David Travis

#Light Quotes #Imagination Quotes #Darkness Quotes

“Harriet, Hi! Light of my eye! Come to the pictures and have a good cry, For it's jolly old Saturday, Mad-as-a-hatter-day, Nothing-much-matter-day-night!”

“Music is what mathematics does on a Saturday night.”

“I feel like everyone who goes to The University of Texas is blessed and lucky to be there because they're getting a chance to be as good as they can be.”

“I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.”

“There is a special mystique to Texas. Texans represent many things to the uninitiated: We are bigger than life in our boots and Stetsons, rugged individualists whose two-steppin' has achieved world-wide acclaim, and we were the first to define hospitality.”

“The true meaning of America, you ask? It's in a Texas rodeo, in a policeman's badge, in the sound of laughing children, in a political rally, in a newspaper... In all these things, and many more, you'll find America. In all these things, you'll find freedom. And freedom is what America means to the world. And to me.”

“In Texas, we hold very dear to intrusions against our personal liberty. We fight very hard against that.”

“In nature there are few sharp lines”

Source : A. R. Ammons (1968). “Selected poems”

“I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.”

“We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game.”