w/c 1/1/2018
"Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind."
Nathaniel Hawthorne - American novelist, dark romantic and short story writer.
(4 July 1804 - 19 May 1864)
w/c 8/1/2018
"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."
Henry Ford - American captain of industry and business magnate.
Founded the Ford Motor Company, and developed the assembly line technique of mass production.
(30 July 1863 - 7 April 1947)
w/c 15/1/2018
"You can't get your head around something if you're yelling"
Henry Rollins - American hardcore punk musician, actor, writer, television and radio host, and comedian.
( 13 February 1961 - )
w/c 22/1/2018
"There's no such thing as too much snow"
Doug Coombs - American alpine skier, mountaineer and pioneer of extreme skiing.
(24 September 1957 - 3 April 2006)
w/c 29/ 1/ 2018
"The sun is bright and the powder's bitchin'!"
Jim Carey as the Grinch in How the Grinch Stole Christmas
(2000)
w/c 12/ 2/ 2018
Sir Donald McCullin. CBE. Hon FRPS - British photojournalist, particularly recognized for his war photography
and images of urban strife.
(9 October 1935 )
w/c 19/ 2/ 2018
"Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking."
Milton Glaser - Celebrated American graphic designer and illustrator.
(26 June 1929 - )
w/c 26/2/2018
"The only source of knowledge is experience."
Albert Einstein - German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics.
(14 March 1879 - 18 April 1955)
w/c 5.3.2018
"Every mile is two in winter."
George Herbert - Poet, orator and priest
(3 April 1593 - 1 March 1633)
w/c 12.3.2018
"Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand".
Kurt Vonnegut - American author and playwright.
Most famous for his darkly satirical, best-selling novel Slaughterhouse-Five.
(11 November 1922 - 11 April 2007)
w/c 19.3.2018
"It's not about the writing. It's about the feelings behind the words."
Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabat - Writers at Nintendo EAD
2005
w/c 26.3.2018
John O'Neill, The Undertones - May 1978
w/c 2.4.2018
"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk.
That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."
Ernest Miller Hemingway - Novelist, short story writer, journalist, angler, drinker and adventurer.
Developed an economical and understated writing style that had a strong influence on
20th-century fiction—which he termed the Iceberg Theory.
(July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961)
w/c 9.4.2018
The Law of the Jungle - November 1895
Joseph Rudyard Kipling - English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist.
Best known works include The Jungle Book, Kim, If and The Man Who Would Be King.
(December 30, 1865 - January 18, 1936)
w/c 16.4.2018
"Gentlemen, we haven't got the money, so we've got to think."
Ernest Rutherford OM, FRS - New Zealand-born British physicist known as the father of nuclear physics.
Discoverer of the Proton, Atomic Nucleus, Alpha and Beta Particles, Radon and many other fundemental tenets of modern physics.
(30 Aug 1871 - 19 October 1937)
w/c 23.4.2018
"If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt."
Dean Martin - American singer, actor, comedian and film producer.
Nicknamed the "King of Cool" for for his seemingly effortless charisma and self-assurance.
(7 June 1917- 25 December 1995)
w/c 30.4.2018
Estimated amount of glucose used by an adult human brain each day, expressed in M&Ms: 250
Harper's Index, October 1989
w/c 7.5.2018
"The time to relax is when you don't have time for it."
Sydney J. Harris - American journalist and author.
(14 September 1917, London - 8 December 1986, Chicago)
w/c 14.5.2018
"The more you reason the less you create."
Raymond Thornton Chandler - American-British novelist and screenwriter.
Best known for classic detective fiction including The Big Sleep, The Long Goodbye, Farewell My Lovely and Double Indemnity.
(23 July 1888- 26 March 1959)
w/c 21.5.2018
"Think,think,think."
Winnie the Pooh, Hundred Acre Wood
w/c 28.5.2018
"My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living."
Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell, known professionally as Anaïs Nin.
American diarist, essayist, novelist, and writer of short stories and erotica.
(21 February 1903 - 14 January 1977)
w/c 4.6.2018
"The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps."
Robert Charles Benchley - American humorist, newspaper columnist and film actor.
(15 September 1889 - 21 November 1945)
w/c 11.6.2018
"Fitness has nothing to do with age."
Virender Sehwag - Indian cricketer regarded as one of the most destructive batsmen of all time.
( 20 October 1978 - )
w/c 18.6.2018
"Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes
and at the end, the Germans always win."
Gary Winston Lineker, OBE - Sports broadcaster and former English professional footballer,
current holder England's record for goals in FIFA World Cup finals, with 10 goals.
(30th Nov 1969 - )
w/c 25.6.2018
"Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling."
Walt Whitman - American poet, essayist, journalist and humanist
who incorporated transcendentalism and realism in his works.
(31 May 1819- 26 March 1892)
w/c 2.7.2018
"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter."
Edward Estlin Cummings a.k.a. e.e. cummmings - American poet, painter, essayist, author and playwright.
(14 October 1894 - 3 September 1962)
w/c 9.7.2018
William Michael Albert Broad a.k.a. Billy Idol - Musician, singer, songwriter, and actor.
(30 November 1955 - )
w/c 16.7.2018
"Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer's day along a dusty English road,
and he will soon discover why beer was invented."
Gilbert K. Chesterton KC*SG - English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator,
theologian, biographer, and literary and art critic often referred to as the "prince of paradox.
(29 May 18749- 14 June 1936)
w/c 23.7.2018
"When you create advertising, always start with the words."
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 30.7.2018
"When in doubt, don't."
Benjamin Franklin- Founding Father of United States and leading author, printer, political theorist,
politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat.
(1706 - 1790)
w/c 6.8.2018
"We are all geniuses up to the age of ten."
Aldous Huxley - English Novelist and philosopher, author of Brave New World.
(July 26, 1894 - November 22, 1963)
w/c 13.8.2018
"Can i just point out that this Captcha bullshit is a nightmare when you're drunk.
It's fucking harder than Sudoku."
3rdDegreeGurn - YouTube (About five years ago)
w/c 20.8.2018
"Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don't know which half."
John Wanamaker - American merchant and religious, civic and political figure,
considered by some to be a proponent of advertising and a pioneer in marketing.
(11 July 1838- 12 December 1922)
w/c 27.8.2018
"The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around."
James Newell Osterberg Jr. - American singer, songwriter, musician, producer and actor.
Known professionally by his stage name Iggy Pop and designated the "Godfather of Punk"
(21 April 1947 -)
w/c 3.9.2018
"People still believe what they read is necessarily the truth."
Ratan Naval Tata - Indian industrialist, investor, philanthropist, and former chairman of Tata Sons.
(28th Dec 1937-)
w/c 10.9.2018
New ideas pass through three phases:
1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke CBE FRAS - British science fiction writer, science writer,
futurist, inventor, undersea explorer and television presenter.
(16 December 1917 - 19 March 2008)
w/c 17.9.2018
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from their point of view."
Nelle Harper Lee - American novelist and author of To Kill a Mockingbird the Pulitzer Prize winner in 1961.
( 28 April 1926 - 19 February 2016)
w/c 24.9.2018
"Quality is everyone's responsibility."
William Edwards Deming - American engineer, statistician, professor, author, lecturer, and management consultant.
(14 October 1900- 20 December 1993)
w/c 1.10.2018
"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
Helena - Countess of Rousillon - All’s Well that Ends Well. Act 1, Scene 1.
William Shakespeare the "Bard of Avon" - English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the
greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.
(1564–1616)
w/c 8.10.2018
"If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint."
widely acknowledged as the most important realist painter of twentieth-century.
(22 July 1882- 15 May 1967)
w/c 15.10.2018
Robert Kirkman - American comic book writer best known for co-creating The Walking Dead,
Invincible, Tech Jacket, Outcast and Oblivion Song for Image Comics,
in addition to writing Ultimate X-Men, Irredeemable Ant-Man and Marvel Zombies for Marvel Comics
(30 November 1978 -)
w/c 22.10.2018
"Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window."
Stephen Gary Wozniak A.K.A. Woz - American inventor, electronics engineer, programmer,
philanthropist, technology entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple.
(11 August 1950 - )
w/c 29.10.2018
"I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical."
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke CBE FRAS - British science fiction writer, science writer,
futurist, inventor, undersea explorer and television presenter.
(16 December 1917 - 19 March 2008)
w/c 5.11.2018
“The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.
Ernest James Gaines - African-American author.
(15 Jan 1933 - )
w/c 11.11.2018 - 100 years since the Armistice of WW1
The Soldier
"If I should die, think only this of me: That there’s some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England.
There shall be in that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam; A body of England’s, breathing English air, washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home."
Rupert Chawner Brooke - English poet of the First World War.
(3 August 1887, Rugby - 23 April 1915, Tris BoukesBay, Greece)
w/c 18.11.2018
"Be obscure clearly.”
E.B. White- American writer and a world federalist. Contributor to The New Yorker magazine for more than fifty years.
Author of Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little and co-author of the English language style guide 'The Elements of Style' commonly known as Strunk & White.
(11 July 1899 - 1 October 1985)
w/c 25.11.2018
"I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity."
William Louis Veeck Jr. .a.k.a. "Sport Shirt" - American Major League Baseball franchise owner,
promoter and owner of the Cleveland Indians, St. Louis Browns and Chicago White Sox.
(9 February 1914 - 2 January 1986)
w/c 3.12.2108
"It is by sitting down to write every morning that one becomes a writer.”
Edward FitzGerald "Gerald" Brenan, CBE - British writer and Hispanist who spent much of his life in Spain.
Best known for The Spanish Labyrinth and South from Granada: Seven Years in an Andalusian Village.
(7 April 1894 - 19 January 1987)
w/c 10.12.2018
Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd 1975
Songwriters - Edward C. King / Gary Robert Rossington / Ronnie Van Zant
w/c 17.12.2018
"Writing—the art of communicating thoughts to the mind, through the eye—is the great invention of the world.”
Abraham Lincoln - American statesman and lawyer who served as the
16th President of the United States until his assassination.
(12 February 1809 - 15 April 1865)
w/c 24.12.2018
I-I-t-t-'s C-h-r-i-s-t-m-a-ssssss!!!!!
Noddy Holder - 1973...74...75...76...77...78...79...80...81...82...
...83...84...85...86...87...88...89...90...91...92...93...94...95...96...97...98...99...
2000...01...02...03...04...05...06...07...08...09...10...
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w/c 31.12.2018
"And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been."
René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke, a.k.a. Rainer Maria Rilke - Czech born poet and novelist.
(4 December 1875- 29 December 1926)
