w/c 6.1.2020
Robert 'Bob' Nesta Marley - Jamaican singer and songwriter considered one of the greatest pioneers of reggae, ska and rocksteady.
(6 February 1945 - 11 May 1981)
w/c 13.1.2020
"It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill.
For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into his writings, the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets out of it.
He therefore becomes a student of how people read or listen."
William Bernbach - American advertising creative director.
One of the three founders of the international advertising agency Doyle Dane Bernbach (DDB).
(13 August 1911- 2 October 1982)
w/c 20.1.2020
"Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it."
Publilius Syrus - Syrian born writer brought to Italy as a slave and
by his wit and talent won the favour of his master, who freed and educated him.
(85BC - 43BC)
w/c 27.2.2020
"Good writing is like a windowpane."
George Orwell - English novelist and essayist, journalist and critic.
Author of literary classics including Animal Farm, 1984 and Homage to Catalonia.
(25 June 1903- 21 January 1950)
w/c 3.2.2020
"Every dogma has its day."
Anthony Burgess - English writer and composer best known for his dystopian satire A Clockwork Orange.
(25 February 1917- 22 November 1993)
w/c 10.2.2020
"Always remember that you are absolutely unique.
Just like everyone else."
Margaret Mead - American cultural anthropologist, author and speaker in the mass media.
(16 December 1901- 15 November 1978)
w/c 17.2.2020
"All things are possible except skiing through a revolving door."
Heywood 'Woody' Allen- American director, writer, actor and comedian.
(1 December 1935 - )
w/c 24.2.020
The mountains are calling and I must go."
John Muir - Scottish-American mountaineer known as 'John of the Mountains' and 'Father of the National Parks'.
Influential naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, glaciologist and early advocate for the preservation of wilderness areas.
( 21 April 1838- 24 December 1914)
w/c 2.3.2020
John Ruskin - English art critic and patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, social thinker and philanthropist of the Victorian era.
Writer on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and political economy.
(8 February 1819 - 20 January 1900)"
w/c 9.3.2020
"Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you.
The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult."
Stephen Leacock - Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humourist
(30 December 1869 - 28 March 1944)
w/c 16.3.2020 - Covid-19 Coronavirus pandemic hits UK
“Pau, Verona, Vicenza, Saragossa,
From distant swords lands wet with blood:
Very great plague will come with the great shell,
Relief near, and the remedies very far.”
Century III, Quatrain 75
Michel de Nostredame aka Nostradamus - French astrologer, physician and reputed seer
best known for his book Les Prophéties, a collection of 942 poetic quatrains allegedly predicting future events.
(14 December 1503 - 2 July 1566)
w/c 23.3.2020
"You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public."
Scott Raymond Adams - creator, writer and illustrator of the Dilbert comic strip and
author of several nonfiction works of satire, commentary, and business.
(8 June 1957 - )
w/c 30.3.2020
"It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver."
Mohandas Karamchand 'Mahatma' Gandhi - Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethicist
who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world.
(2 October 1869 - 30 January 1948)
w/c 6.4.2020
"Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it."
Scott Raymond Adams - creator, writer and illustrator of the Dilbert comic strip,
and the author of several nonfiction works of satire, commentary, and business.
(8 June 1957 - )
w/c 13.4.2020
American IV: The Man Comes Around (2002) Writer: John R.
Johnny Cash - American singer, songwriter, musician, actor, and author.
One of the best-selling music artists of all time,whose genre and sound embraced country, rock and roll, rockabilly, blues, folk, and gospel.
(26 February 1932- 12 September 2003)
w/c 20.4.2020
"Ooh, ooh ooh ooh oo-ooh ooh oo-ooh ooh ooh oo-ooh
(Written by B. McFerrin - Simple Pleasures Album 1988)
Bobby McFerrin Jr.- American jazz vocalist known for his extraordinary vocal techniques.
( 11 March 1950 - )
w/c 27.4.2020
"It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew."
Henry Rollins - American hardcore punk musician, actor, writer, television and radio host, and comedian.
( 13 February 1961 - )
w/c 4.5.2020
"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, A.K.A Mark Twain - American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer.
(30 November 1835 -21 April 1910)
w/c 11.5.2020
"On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last,
and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
Henry Louis Mencken - American journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic and scholar who commented
widely on the social scene, literature, music, prominent politicians and contemporary movements.
(12 September 1880 - 29 January 1956)
w/c 18.5.2020
"Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts."
Jim Morrison - singer, songwriter, poet and lead vocalist of The Doors.
(8 December 1943 - 3 July 1971)
w/c 25.5.2020
64 days and counting into 2020 UK Covid 19 Lockdown
"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."
Marie Curie - Polish born and naturalised-French physicist
and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity.
(7 November 1867- 4 July 1934)
w/c 1.6.2020
"I would never die for my beliefs
because I might be wrong."
Bertrand Russell - British polymath, philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist and Nobel laureate.
(18 May 1872- 2 February 1970)
w/c 8.6.2020
"The most precious places in the English landscape are those secretive corners,
where you find only elder trees, nettles and dreams."
Denys James Watkins-Pitchford MBE a.k.a 'BB' - British naturalist, illustrator and children's author writing under the pseudonym "BB".
Winner of 1942 Carnegie Medal for children's books 'BB' is also considered
the father of modern carp fishing and author of carping classic ‘Confessions of a Carp Fisher'.
(25 July 1905 - 8 September 1990)
w/c 15.6.2020
"Water's never clumsy."
Matthew McConaughey - Actor and producer.
(4 November 1969 - )
w/c 22.6.2020
"It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man."
H. L. Mencken - American journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic and scholar who commented
widely on the social scene, literature, music, prominent politicians and contemporary movements.
(12 September 1880 - 29 January 1956)
w/c 29.6.2020
"It's simple, if it jiggles, it's fat."
Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger - Austrian professional bodybuilder who became Mr Universe at age 20, then seven-time Mr Olympia
before becoming an actor, filmmaker, businessman, author, politician and 38th Governor of California from 2003 to 2011.
(30 July 1947 - )
w/c 6.7.2020
"I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink."
Joe E. Lewis - American comedian, actor and singer
(12 January 1902 - 4 June 1971)
w/c 13.7.2020
"Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith."
Steve Jobs - Visionary, inventor and co-founder of Apple Inc
(February 24 1955 - October 5 2011)
w/c 20.7.2020
"A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason."
J.P. Morgan - American financier, banker and art collector who dominated corporate finance on Wall Street throughout the Gilded Age.
(17 April 1837- 31 March 1913)
w/c 27.7.2020
"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment."
Siddhartha Gautama 'The Buddha' - Philosopher, mendicant, meditator, spiritual teacher,
and religious leader who founded the world religion of Buddhism.
(c. 5th to 4th century BCE)
w/c 3.8.2020
"What I love best in life is new starts."
Karl Otto Lagerfeld- German creative director, fashion designer, artist, photographer and caricaturist
renowned worldwide for his aspirational, relevant and cutting-edge approach to style.
(10 September 1933- 19 February 2019
w/c 10.8.2020
"You are the hole in my head, I am the pain in your neck"
HBGXX 6.8.2020
(Written by John Doe 2007 / Album- A Year in the Wilderness)
w/c 17.8.2020
"Retreat, hell!
We're not retreating, we're just advancing in a different direction."
General Oliver P. Smith - highly decorated combat veteran of World War II and the Korean War.
Most noted for commanding the 1st Marine Division during the Battle of Chosin Reservoir, where he said the above comment.
(26 October 1893- 25 December 1977)
w/c 24.8.2020
"You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising."
George Norman Douglas - British writer, best known for his 1917 novel South Wind.
His travel books such as his 1915 Old Calabria were also appreciated for the quality of their writing.
(8 December 1868 - 7 February 1952)
w/c 31.8.2020
"No great thing is created suddenly."
Epictetus - Greek Stoic philosopher born a slave at Hierapolis, Phrygia, lived in Rome until his banishment,
then went to Nicopolis in northwestern Greece for the rest of his life.
( 50 AD - 135 AD)
w/c 7.9.2020
"It's what you learn after you know it all that counts."
John Robert Wooden - Basketball player and coach nicknamed the Wizard of Westwood.
(14 October 1910 - 4 June 2010)
w/c 14.9.2020
"Creativity is an advertising agency's most valuable asset, because it is the rarest."
Jef I. Richards- Professor and Chair of the Department of Advertising and Public Relations at Michigan State University and
associate editor of the International Journal of Internet Marketing and Advertising.
w/c 21.9.2020
"The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet.
The future is still so much bigger than the past."
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee OM KBE FRS FREng FRSA FBCS - English computer scientist
best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web
( 8 June 1955 - )
w/c 28.9.2020
"We aim above the mark to hit the mark."
Ralph Waldo Emerson - American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, and poet.
(25 May 1803 - 27 April 1882)
w/c 5.10.2020
"One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple."
(The Dharma Bums 1958)
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac a.k.a.Jack Kerouac - American novelist of French Canadian ancesty
who was one of the pioneers of the Beat Generation.
(12 March 1922, - 21 October 1969)
w/c 12.10.2020
"A word after a word after a word is power."
Margaret Eleanor Atwood CC OOnt CH FRSC - Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher,
environmental activist and inventor. Author of A Handmaid's Tale.
(18 November 1939 - )
w/c 19..10.2020
"With an apple I will astonish Paris."
Paul Cézanne - French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the
19th-century conception of artistic endeavor to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century.
(19 January 1839 - 22 October 1906)
w/c 26.10.2020
"Can I kick it?"
w/c 2.11.2020
"When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do."
Walter Elias Disney - American entrepreneur, animator, writer, voice actor and film producer.
(5 December 1901 - 15 December 1966)
w/c 9.11.2020
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
Aldous Leonard Huxley - English writer and philosopher who wrote nearly fifty books—both novels and non-fiction works,
as well as wide-ranging essays, narratives, and poems.
(26 July 1894 - 22 November 1963)
w/c 16.11.2020
"The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do."
Thomas Jefferson - American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the
third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809.
(13 April 1743 - 4 July 1826)
w/c 23.11.2020
'If I look confused it is because I am thinking'
Samuel Goldwyn a.k.a. Samuel Goldfish - Polish-American film producer best known for being the founding contributor
and executive of several motion picture studios in Hollywood.
(17 August 1879 - 31 January 1974)
w/c 30.11.2020
"No need to complicate it, I'm a simple man, all you got to do is put a ..."
Eric Church - American singer-songwriter
(May 1977 - )
w/c 7.12.2020
"Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace."
Robert James Sawyer CM OOnt - Canadian science fiction writer who has won the Nebula Award,
the Hugo Award, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award.
(29 April 1960 - )
w/c 14.12.2020
"Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever."
Keri Russell - American actress who won a Golden Globe Award for her role as Felicity Porter in the drama series Felicity.
(23 March 1976 - )
w/c 21.12.2020
"To attain knowledge, add things everyday.To attain wisdom, remove things everyday."
Lao Tzu - Chinese philosopher and writer. Reputed author of the Tao Te Ching and founder of philosophical Taoism
(Born Chu - Died Qin)
w/c 28.12.2020
"Don't let the past steal your present.
This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone."
Janet Miriam Holland Taylor Caldwell - British-born American novelist and prolific author of popular fiction,
also known by the pen names Marcus Holland and Max Reiner, and by her married name of J. Miriam Reback.
(7 September 1900 - 30 August 1985)
