w/c 4.1.2021
"Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed."
Irene Peter - 121 year old American writer.
(1900 - )
w/c 11.1.2021
David Robert Jones A.K.A. David Bowie - English singer-songwriter, actor, chameleon, sage, seer, trendsetter and genius .
Leading figure in the music industry for almost 50 years he was one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century
who created the soundtrack to the lives of millions across multiple generations. Much mourned and missed. Happy Birthday Starman.
(Jan 8th 1947 - Jan 16th 2016)
w/c 18.1.2021
"Show respect to all people, but grovel to none."
Tecumseh - Native American Shawnee leader who was a strong and eloquent orator and became leader of a large Native American alliance known as
Tecumseh's Confederacy in the early 19th century . Allied to Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War of 1812
(March 1768, Ohio, United States - 5 October 1813, Moravian Indian Reserve No. 47, Canada)
w/c 25.1.2021
"We're all dreamers."
Ray Bradbury - American writer who worked in a variety of genres including fantasy, science fiction, horror, and mystery fiction.
Author of Fahrenheit 451, Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man.
(August 22, 1920 - June 5, 2012)
w/c 1.2.2021
"Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected."
William Charles Franklyn Plomer CBE - South African and British author educated at Rugby School and best known as a novelist,
poet, literary editor and libretist for Benjamin Britten.
(10 December 1903 - 21 September 1973)
w/c 8.2.2021
"All men are equal before fish."
Herbert Hoover - American politician, businessman, and engineer, who was the 31st president of the
United States from 1929 to 1933 during the onset of the Great Depression.
(10 August 1874 - 20 October 1964)
w/c 15.2.2021
"Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why."
Bernard Mannes Baruch - American financier and statesman. After amassing a fortune on the New York Stock Exchange he managed
the US's economic mobilization in World War I as chairman of the War Industries Board and was invited to the Paris Peace Conference.
(19 August 1870 - 20 June 1965)
w/c 22.2.2021
"The ABC's are attitude, behavior and communication skills."
Gerald Chertavian - American businessman who is the founder and CEO of Year Up, is on the Board of Advisors for the Harvard Business School
Social Enterprise Initiative and is an Emeritus Trustee of Bowdoin College and a former Board Member of The Boston Foundation.
(15 May 1965 - )
w/c 1/3/2021
"Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire."
George Bernard Shaw - Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist.
His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond.
(26 July 1856 - 2 November 1950)
w/c 8/3/2021
"The world doesn't need another clothing company.
But it does need a certain funk."
André Lauren Benjamin a.k.a. André 3000 - American rapper, singer-songwriter, actor, record producer, dancer, and philanthropist.
Best known for being a part of Atlanta hip hop duo Outkast alongside fellow rapper Big Boi.
(27 May 1975 - )
w/c 15/3/2021
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof
is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."
Douglas Noel Adams - English author, screenwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist and dramatist. .
Best known as author of sci-fi classic The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
(11 March 1952 - 11 May 2001)
w/c 22/3/2021
"Creativity takes courage."
his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship.
(31 December 1869- 3 November 1954)
w/c 29/3/2021
"Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem."
John Galsworthy OM - English novelist and playwright who wroteThe Forsyte Saga and its sequels, A Modern Comedy and
End of the Chapter and who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932.
(14 August 1867 - 31 January 1933)
w/c 5/4/2021
"What is easy is seldom excellent."
Samuel Johnson - English writer, poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer.
(18 September 1709 - 13 December 1784)
w/c 12/4/2021
"If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of an empty desk?"
Dr. Laurence Johnston Peter - Canadian educator and "hierarchiologist", best known for the formulation of the Peter Principle.
(September 16, 1919 - January 12, 1990)
w/c 19/4/2021
"Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience."
Clarence Shepard Day Jr. - American author and cartoonist, best known for his 1935 autobiographical work Life with Father.
(18 November 1874 - 28 December 1935)
w/c 26/4/2021
"Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day."
William Allingham - Irish poet, diarist and editor, best known for his posthumously published Diary, in which he records
his encounters with Tennyson, Carlyle and other writers and artists of the time.
(19 March 1824 - November 1889)
w/c 3/5/2021
"There is no fun in doing nothing, when you have nothing to do."
Jerome K. Jerome - English writer and humourist, best known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat, Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow,
Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, Three Men on the Bummel, and the sequel to Three Men in a Boat.
(2 May 1859 - 14 June 1927)
w/c 10/5/2021
"There's no such thing as a cautious creative."
George Lois - American Art Director, designer, and author best known for
92 Esquire covers he designed from 1962 to 1972. The original 'Mad Man' and real-life Don Draper.
(26 June 1931 - )
w/c 17/5/2021
"The higher you build your barriers
The taller I become"
Written and Recorded by Labi Siffre 1987
w/c 24/5/2021
"The best way to keep one's word is not to give it."
Napoleon Bonaparte - French military and political leader
(August 15 1769 - May 5 1821)
w/c 31/5/2021
"When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration."
Widely renowned as one of the most prolific and influential figures in the history of photography.
(27 March 1879 - 25 March 1973)
w/c 7/6/2021
"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night."
William Blake - English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime,
he is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age.
( 28 November 1757 - 12 August 1827)
w/c 14/6/2021
"Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther."
Thomas Carlyle - Scottish historian, satirical writer, essayist, translator, philosopher, mathematician, and teacher.
(4 December 1795 - February 1881)
w/c 21/6/2021
"He has the most who is most content with the least."
Diogenes - Greek philosopher and one of the founders of Cynic philosophy.
Believed born in Sinope on the Black Sea coast of modern-day Turkey in 412 or 404 BC and died at Corinth in 323 BC.
(412 or 404BC - 323 BC)
w/c 28/6/2021
"The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn
are composed entirely of lost airline luggage."
Mark Russell - American political satirist and comedian.
(23 August 1932 - )
w/c 5/7/2021
I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand.
Kong Qui a.k.a. Confucius - Chinese philosopher and politician whose teachings and
philosophy formed the basis of East Asian culture and society
(28 September 551 BC - 11 April 479 BC)
w/c 12/7/2021
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Vincent Willem van Gogh - Dutch post-impressionist painter who posthumously became one of the most famous and
influential figures in the history of Western art. In a decade, he created about 2,100 artworks,
including around 860 oil paintings, most of which date from the last two years of his life.
(30 March 1853 - 29 July 1890)
w/c 19/7/2021
"Everything in writing begins with language.
Language begins with listening."
Jeanette Winterson CBE - English writer, who became famous with her first book,
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit - a semi-autobiographical novel.
(27 August 1959 - )
w/c 26/7/2021
"You have to know the past to understand the present"
Carl Sagen - American astronomer, planetary scientist, cosmologist, astrophysicist,
astrobiologist, author, and science communicator best known for his TV series Cosmos.
(9 November 1934 - 20 December 1996)
w/c 2/8/2021
"We do not remember days, we remember moments."
Cesare Pavese - Italian novelist, poet, short story writer, translator, literary critic, and essayist.
(9 September 1908 - 27 August 1950)
w/c 9/8/2021
“We’ve lost seven of our last eight matches. The only team that we’ve beaten was Western Samoa.
Good job we didn’t play the whole of Samoa.”
Welsh scrum-half Gareth Davies in 1989 talking to press after a disasterous run of Welsh losses.
w/c16/8/2021
"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak."
Hans Hofmann - German-born American painter, renowned as both an artist and teacher.
who is considered to have both preceded and influenced Abstract Expressionism.
(21 March 1880 - 17 February 1966)
w/c 23.8.2021
"There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept."
Ansel Easton Adams - American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West.
Founding member of Group f/64, an association of photographers advocating "pure" photography which favored sharp focus and the use of the full tonal range of a photograph.
(20 February 1902 - 22 April 1984)
w/c 30.8.2021
"Rock and roll has probably given more than it's taken."
Charles Robert Watts - Stones drummer extraordinaire .
( 2 June 1941 - 24 August 2021)
w/c 6.9.2021
"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing."
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde - Irish poet and playwright and wit who was
one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s.
(16 October 1854 - 30 November 1900)
w/c 13.9.2021
"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it."
Henry Ford - American industrialist, business magnate, and founder of the Ford Motor Company.
Chief developer of the assembly line technique of mass production.
(30 July 1863 - 7 April 1947)
w/c 20.9.2021
“Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right things.”
Dave Trott - creative director, copywriter, and author.
Founding partner of Gold Greenlees Trott and inspiration for a generation of copywriters.
(1947 - )
w/c 27.9.2021
"The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows."
Aristotle Socrates Onassis - Greek shipping magnate who amassed the world's largest privately-owned
shipping fleet and was one of the world's richest men.
(20 January 1906 - 15 March 1975,
w/c 4.10.2021
"Jesus was a Social Drinker"
Charles William 'Chuck' Prophet - American singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer. (June 28 1963)
w/c 11.10.2021
"Advertising is the life of trade."
Calvin Coolidge - American lawyer and politician who served as the 30th president of the United States from 1923 to 1929.
(4 July 1872 - 5 January 1933)
w/c 18.10.2021
"Each day provides its own gifts."
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus - Roman emperor and a Stoic philosopher.
Last of the rulers known as the Five Good Emperors, and the last emperor of the Pax Romana.
(26 April 121 AD - 17 March 180 AD)
w/c 25.10.2021
"Spiders are always big in the autumn: they've had all summer to grow."
Alice May Roberts FRSB - English biological anthropologist, biologist, television presenter and author.
(19 May 1973 - )
w/c 1.11.2021
"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, but borrow it from our children"
Lina - Reclamation - Book 3 in the Rise Trilogy
By Nathan Hystad - Canadian Sci-Fi writer, author, publisher and reader and
Devon C. Ford - British Sci-Fi author and writer
w/c 8.11.2021
"What is now proved was once only imagined."
William Blake - English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime,
he is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age.
( 28 November 1757 - 12 August 1827)
w/c 15.11.2021
"Never wear anything that panics the cat."
P. J. O'Rourke - American political satirist and journalist.
H. L. Mencken Research Fellow at the libertarian Cato Institute and regular correspondent for The Atlantic
(14 November 1947 -)
w/c 22.11.2021
"It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poet and educator who was one of the fireside poets from New England.
(27 February 1807 - 24 March 1882)
w/c 29.11.2021
"You can never have enough winter jackets.".
Dylan Kwabena Mills MBE, A.K.A. Dizzee Rascal - English MC, rapper, songwriter and record producer.
A pioneer of grime music he incorporates elements of UK garage, bassline, British hip hop, and R&B in his music.
(18 September 1984 - )
w/c 6.12.2021
"Ninety-three per cent of all human communication is non-verbal."
Albert Mehrabian - Armenian born Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Although he originally trained as an engineer, he is best known for his publications on the relative importance of verbal and nonverbal messages.
(17 November 1939 - )
w/c 13.12.2021
"It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes."
Douglas Noel Adams - English author, screenwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist and dramatist. .
Best known as author of sci-fi classic The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
(11 March 1952 - 11 May 2001)
w/c 20.12.2021
"The two most joyous times of the year are Christmas morning and the end of school."
Alice Cooper - American singer, songwriter, and actor whose career spans over 50 years.
( 4 February 1948 - )
w/c 27.12.2021
"Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man."
Benjamin Franklin FRS FRSA FRSE - American Founding Father, polymath, writer, scientist, inventor, statesman,
diplomat, printer, publisher and political philosopher.
(17 January 1706 - 17 April 1790)
