Quotes of the day, December 2

The recent extraordinary discovery in Photography, as applied in the operations of the mind, has reduced the art of novel-writing to the merest mechanical labour.

Lewis Carroll

• Photography
• Discovery
• Novel-writing

If you want to talk, you should try being a vacuum cleaner salesman. I only want footballers.

Ernst Happel

• Salesman
• Footballers

I was always intrigued when I was growing up, and then in engineering school, with the idea of a perpetual machine. I think of the Wal-Mart culture as that.

Mike Duke

• School
• Culture
• Growing

I have a friend who lives by a three-word philosophy: Seize the Moment. Just possibly, she may be the wisest woman on this planet.

Erma Bombeck

• Moments
• Serious
• Philosophy

I'm not addicted to cocaine. I just like the way it smells.

Richard Pryor

• Way
• Smell
• Cocaine