w/c 2nd Jan 2017
"To be prepared is half the victory."
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest writer in the
Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists.
(September 29, 1547- April 22, 1616)
w/c 9th Jan 2017
"Everything starts from a dot."
Wassily Kandinsky - Russian painter and art theorist.
Credited with painting one of the first recognised purely abstract works.
(December 16, 1866- December 13, 1944)
w/c 16th Jan 2017
"The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards."
Arthur Koestler CBE - Hungarian-British author and journalist.
(5 September 1905 - 1 March 1983)
w/c 23rd Jan 2017
"Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed."
Arthur Schopenhauer - German philosopher best known for his 1818 work The World as Will and Representation
(February 22, 1788 - September 21, 1860)
w/c 30th Jan 2017
“It ain’t whatcha write, it’s the way atcha write it.”
Jack Kerouac - American novelist and poet considered a literary iconoclast and pioneer of the Beat Generation.
Recognized for his method of spontaneous prose.
(12 March 1922- 21 October 1969)
w/c 6th Feb 2017
"Skiing is the best way in the world to waste time."
Greg Plake (The Mighty Mohawk) - American Pioneer of Extreme and Freestyle Skiing and US National Ski Hall of Fame skier.
(9 September 1964 - )
w/c 13th Feb 2017
"Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects."
David McAlister "Dave" Barry - Pulitzer Prize winning American author and columnist.
(3 July 1947 - )
w/c 20th Feb 2017
"Dig first, then write."
David Abbott - British advertising legend and founder of Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO.
One of the most celebrated advertising executives in the world and regarded as the greatest copywriter of his generation.
(11 Oct 1938- 17 May 2014)
w/c 27th Feb 2017
“If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.”
Elmore Leonard - American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter.
(11 October 1925- 20 August 2013)
w/c 6th March 2017
"I like crazy people, especially those who don't see the risk."
John Joseph Lydon - A.K.A. Johnny Rotten. Songwriter, musician and lead singer of the
Sex Pistols and PIL. The Godfather of British Punk.
(January 31 1956 - )
w/c 13th March 2017
"Some remedies are worse than the disease."
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 20th March 2017
"True creativity often starts where language ends."
Arthur Koestler CBE -Hungarian-British author and journalist.
(5 September 1905 - 1 March 1983)
w/c 27th March 2017
"I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape."
(Estella - Great Expectations, Chapter 59 Page 489)
Charles John Huffam Dickens - English writer and social critic
regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.
(February 7, 1812 - June 9, 1870)
w/c 3rd April 2017
"Good design doesn't date."
Harry Seidler AC OBE - Austrian-born Australian architect considered to be one of the leading exponents of Modernism
and the first architect to fully express the principles of the Bauhaus in Australia.
(25 June 1923 - 9 March 2006)
w/c 10th April 2017
"The desire to write grows with writing."
Desiderius Erasmus - Dutch humanist, philosopher and theologian.
(October 26, 1466 - July 12, 1536)
w/c 17th April 2017
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."
Benjamin Franklin - One of the Founding Fathers of the United States and a renowned polymath,
author, printer, political theorist, politician, freemason, postmaster and scientist.
(17 January 1706 - 17 April 1790)
w/c 24th April 2017
"Order is the key to all problems."
Alexandre Dumas - French writer and author of fiction classics such as The Three Musketeers,
The Count of Monte Cristo and The Man in the Iron Mask.
(July 24, 1802 - December 5, 1870)
w/c 1st May 2017
"I only make movies to finance my fishing."
Lee Marvin - American film and television actor.
(19 February 1924 - 29 August 1987)
w/c 8th May 2017
"Of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most."
John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne - English singer, songwriter, actor and
lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Black Sabbath.
(Dec 3rd 1948 - )
w/c 15 May 2017
This is radio clash on pirate satellite, Orbiting your living room, Cashing in the bill of rights
This is radio clash on pirate satellite, This is radio clash everybody hold on tight
A-riggy diggy dig dang dang
Go back to urban 'nam
Topper Headon, Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon
(1974 - 1986)
w/c 22 May 2017
"Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much."
Marion Mitchell Morrison a.k.a. John Wayne and nicknamed Duke. American actor and filmmaker.
Academy Award-winner and top box office draws for three decades.
(26 May 1907- 11 June 1979)
w/c 29th May 2017
"Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition."
John Francis "Jack" Welch, Jr. - American business executive, author, and chemical engineer.
Chairman and CEO of General Electric between 1981 and 2001 during which time the company's value rose 4,000%.
(19 November 1935 - )
w/c 5th June 2017
“Ballroom dancing is a contact sport. Rugby is a collision sport.”
Heyneke Meyer - Bulls rugby union coach, who was most recently head coach of South African
(6 October 1967 - )
w/c 12th June 2017
"The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease."
Voltaire a.k.a. François-Marie Aroue - French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher
famous for his wit and his advocacy of freedom of speech.
(21 November 1694 - 30 May 1778)
w/c 19th June 2017
"No one knows what he can do until he tries."
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 26th June 2017
"Don't blame it on the sunshine, Don't blame it on the moonlight
Don't blame it on good times, Blame it on the boogie"
The Jackson 5
w/c 3rd July 2017
"Details create the big picture."
Sanford I. Weill - American banker, financier and philanthropist.
Former chief executive and chairman of Citigroup.
(16 March 1933 - )
w/c 10th July 2017
"A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. - American physician, poet, polymath amd member of the Fireside Poets.
Acclaimed by his peers as one of the best writers of the day.
( 29 August 1809 - 7 October 1894)
w/c 17th July 2017
"There are three rules for writing a novel.
Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."
W. Somerset Maugham - British playwright, novelist and short story writer.
Among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highest-paid author during the 1930s.
(25 January 1874 - 16 December 1965)
w/c 24th July 2017
"Without having a goal, it's difficult to score."
Paul Arden - Author and Creative Director of Saatch and Saatchi during what was arguably their Golden Years.
(7 April 1940 - 2 April 2008)
w/c 31st July 2017
"I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could."
Orson Welles - American actor, director, writer, and producer of film, radio, and theatre.
( May 6, 1915 - October 10, 1985)
w/c 7th Aug 2017
Riley B. King A.K.A. B.B. King - American bluesman, singer, guitarist, songwriter, and record producer extraordinaire.
(16 September 1925 - 14 May 2015)
w/c 14th Aug 2017
"Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better."
Herman Hesse - German-born poet, novelist, and painter. Author of Steppenwolf and painter of The Metamorphosis of Piktor.
(2 July 1877 - 9 August 1962)
w/c 21st Aug 2017
"The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts to work as soon as you are born
and doesn't stop until you get up to deliver a speech."
George Jessel - American singer, songwriter and film producer.
(3 April 1898 - 23 May 1981)
w/c 28th Aug 2017
"Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.
It is a process; it's not random."
Sir Kenneth Robinson - British author, speaker and international advisor on education in the arts to government, non-profits, education and arts bodies.
(4 March 1950 - )
w/c 4th Sept 2017
"A man who does not think for himself does not think at all."
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde - Prolific writer of plays, fiction, essays and poetry and consummate wit.
(16 October 1854 - 30 November 1900)
w/c 11th Sept 2017
"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly."
Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller - American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor.
Holder of Presidential Medal of Freedom, Royal Gold Medal, AIA Gold Medal, St. Louis Literary Award.
(12 July 1895- 1 July 1983)
w/c 18th Sept 2017
"Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people.
Let your memory be your travel bag."
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn- Russian novelist, historian, and short story writer.
As a critic of the Soviet Union and communism he was sentenced to a forced labour camp for eight years which
became the inspiration for his novels One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and The Gulag Archipelago.
(11 December 1918 - 3 August 2008)
w/c 25th Sept 2017
"A good photograph is knowing where to stand."
Ansel Easton Adams - American photographer and environmentalist.
Particulary known for his black and white landscape photographs of the American West, especially Yosemite National Park.
(20 February 1902 - 22 April 1984)
w/c 2nd Oct 2017
"I wouldn't mind seeing China if I could come back the same day."
Philip Larkin - Poet and writer of fiction, verse and critical commentary born in Radford, Coventry.
(9 August 1922 - 2 December 1985)
w/c 9th Oct 2017
"What really matters is what you do with what you have."
H. G. Wells - English writer prolific in many genres, including the novel, history, politics,
social commentary, textbooks and rules for war games. Author of The Invisible Man and the Island of Dr. Moreau.
(21 September 1866- 13 August 1946)
w/c 16th Oct 2017
"Never look back unless you are planning to go that way"
Henry David Thoreau - American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist,
tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian.
(12 July 1817- 6 May 1862)
w/c 23rd Oct 2017
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
Martin Luther King, Jr. - American Baptist minister, activist and leader in the Civil Rights Movement
assasinated by James Earl Ray at the Lorraine Motel, Memphis.
(15 January 1929- 4 April 1968)
w/c 30th Oct 2017
"Time spent with cats is never wasted."
Sigmund Freud - Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method
for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst.
(6 May 1856 - 23 September 1939)
w/c 6th Nov 2017
"It takes a long time to become young."
Pablo Picasso - Spanish Cubist painter; father of modern art
(1881 - 1973)
w/c 13th Nov 2017
"Words are but the signs of ideas."
Samuel Johnson - English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet,
essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer.
(18 September 1709 - 13 December 1784)
w/c 20th Nov 2017
"Simplify, simplify."
Henry David Thoreau - American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist,
tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian.
(12 July 1817- 6 May 1862)
w/c 27th Nov 2017
"The man who has no imagination has no wings."
Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marellus Clay,Jr.) aka The Greatest, The People's Champion, The Louisville Lip.
First and still the only three-time world heavyweight boxing champion in the golden age of the sport.
(January 17,1942 - June 3, 2016)
w/c 4th Dec 2017
"You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do."
Gary Larson - American cartoonist, creator of The Far Side cartoon series
(14 August 1950 -)
w/c 11th Dec 2017
"You don't quite know how drunk you are until all of a sudden you're on the floor."
Gina Gershon - American Actress
(10 June 1962 - )
w/c 18th Dec 2017
"What we think, we become."
Gautama Buddha - ascetic and sage, on whose teachings Buddhism was founded.
(563 BC - 483 BC)
w/c 25th Dec 2017
"For it is in giving that we receive."
St Francis of Assisi (Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone) Italian Roman Catholic friar,
deacon and preacher canonized 16 July 1228.
(1181/1182 – 3 October 1226)
