w/c 7.1.2019
"The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate."
J. B. Priestley - English novelist, playwright, scriptwriter, social commentator and broadcaster.
(13 September 1894- 14 August 1984)
w/c 14.1.2019
"A person who says it cannot be done
should not interrupt the person who is doing it.”
Chinese Proverb
(China lands on Dark Side of the Moon Jan 3 2019)
w/c 21.1.2019
"Define what your brand stands for, its core values and tone of voice,
and then communicate consistently in those terms."
Simon Mainwearing - Social media specialist with global experience with many of the world's biggest brands -including Nike, Toyota and Motorola and author of
We First: How Brands and Consumers Use Social Media to Renew Capitalism and Build a Better World.
(1967 - )
w/c 28.1.2019
“The secret of good writing is telling the truth.”
Gordon Lish - American fiction writer, editor and lecturer.
(11 Feb 1934 - )
w/c 4.2.2019
Jules Renard - French author of Les Histoires Naturelles.
(22 February 1864 - 22 May 1910)
w/c 11.2.2019
"There are only four things you can do on skis.
Turn right, turn left, go straight, sell them."
(15 Oct 1924 - 24th Jan 2018)
w/c 18.2.2109
"I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor."
Carl Sandberg - American poet, writer and editor. Winner of three Pulitzer Prizes
(6 Jan1878 - 22 July 1967)
w/c 25.2.2019
"The secret of all effective advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures,
but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships."
Leo Burnett - Pioneer American advertising Executive
(1891-1971)
w/c 4.3.2019
"We just play what we think sounds good."
Tom McFarland - Jungle - GQ Interview August 2014
w/c 11.3.2019
RIP Firestarter.
Keith Charles Flint (17 September 1969 – 4 March 2019)
w/c 18.3.2019
"The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things.
Information is giving out; communication is getting through."
Sydney J. Harris - American journalist and writer whose weekday column, “Strictly Personal ”
was syndicated in approximately 200 newspapers throughout the United States and Canada.
( 14 September 1917- 8 December 1986)
w/c 25.3.2019
"The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style."
Jonathan Swift - Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet and cleric.
Best known for Gulliver's Travels.
(30 November 1667- 19 October 1745)
w/c 1.4.2019
"Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few."
Pythagoras of Samos - Ancient Ionian Greek philosopher and discoverer of 'Pythagoras Theorem'.
(c.570 BC - c.495 BC)
w/c 8.4.2019
"No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish."
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 15.4.2019
"The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe
is that it has never tried to contact us."
William 'Bill' Boyd Watterson II - American cartoonist and the author of the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes.
(5 July 1958 - )
w/c 22.4.2019
"This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future,
which is a little ironic since we may not have one."
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 29.4.2019
"The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp."
Sir Terry Pratchett OBE - English fantasy author best known for his Discworld novels
28th April 1948 - 12th Mach 2015
w/c 6.5.2019
"Science is magic that works."
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 13.5.2019
"To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life."
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald - American fiction writer, whose works helped illustrate the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age.
While he achieved popular success, fame, and fortune in his lifetime, he did not receive much critical acclaim until after his death.
(24 September 1896- 21 December 1940)
w/c 20.5.2019
Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend A.K.A. The Birdman - Singer, songwriter and guitarist.
Co-founder and leader of The Who.
(19 May 1945 - )
w/c 27.5.2019
"The pen is the tongue of the mind."
Quintus Horatius Flaccus A.K.A Horace - Roman poet during the time of Augustus.
(8 December 65 BC - 27 November 8 BC)
w/c 3.6.2019
"Many people cycle or swim to keep trim.
But if swimming is so good for the figure, how do you explain whales?"
Charles Saatchi - Copywriter, art collector and co-founder of advertising
agency Saatchi & Saatchi - the world's largest advertising agency in the 1980s
(9 June 1943 - )
w/c 10.6.2019
"I've never met a client who wants to be the worst."
Jerry Della Femina - Italian American advertising executive and restaurateur.
an agency he founded with Ron Travisano in the 1960s.
( 22 July 1936 - )
w/c 17.6.2019
"Words are but pictures of our thoughts."
John Dryden - English poet, literary critic, translator and playwright
who was made England's first Poet Laureate in 1668.
(9 August 1631- 12 May 1700)
w/c 24.6.2019
"If people concentrated on the really important things in life,
there'd be a shortage of fishing rods."
Doug Larson - American Journalist, Columnist and Editor.
(10 February 1926 - )
w/c 1.7.2019
"I've read that an average dog possesses a vocabulary of 200-300 words,
which is enough for him to have his own Twitter account."
W. Bruce Cameron - American columnist, humorist and author
most famous for the novel A Dog's Purpose.
(2 Feb 1960 - )
w/c 8.7.2019
"The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea."
Thomas Mann - German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.
His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas like Death in Venice and The Magic Mountain are
noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual.
(6 June 1875 - 12 August 1955)
w/c 15.7.2019
"Function controls Design"
Professor Bernardo de la Paz - Page 69, Book 1 - The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A Heinlein.
Robert A Heinlein - American science-fiction author, aeronautical engineer, and retired Naval officer.
Among the first to emphasize scientific accuracy in his fiction.
(7 July 1907 - 8 May 1988)
w/c 22.7.2019
"634 5789"
Ry Cooder - Borderline 1980
(Written by Steve Cropper / Eddie Floyd circa. 1966)
w/c 29.7.2019
"If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?"
Steven Alexander Wright - American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and film producer.
Known for his slow, deadpan delivery of ironic, philosophical and sometimes
nonsensical jokes, paraprosdokians, non sequiturs, anti-humor, and one-liners.
(6 December 1955 - )
w/c 5.8.2019
"Skiddley-idle diddle dum, Skiddley-idle diddle dum
Skiddley-um-uh-die diddle dum-day
Skiddley-idle diddle dum, Skiddley-idle diddle dum
Skiddley-um-uh-die diddle dum-day"
Written by Barney Mckenna / Ciaran Padraig Maire Bourke / Ronald Joseph Drew 1964
w/c 12.8.2019
"The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat."
Jules Renard - French author
(22 February 1864 - 22 May 1910)
w/c 19.8.2019
"Business today consists in persuading crowds."
Thomas Stearns (T.S.) Eliot- Poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic.
(26 September 1888 - 4 January 1965)
w/c 26.8.2019
'Cometh the hour, cometh the man.'
Old English saying attributed to John 4:23
w/c 2.9.2019
"A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree."
Terence Alan Milligan KBE, A.K.A. Spike Milligan - British-Irish comedian, writer, poet, playwright and actor born in India.
(16 April 1918 - 27 February 2002)
w/c 23.9.2019
“How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.”
Sir Arthur C. Clarke CBE FRAS - British science fiction writer, science writer,
futurist, inventor, undersea explorer and television presenter.
(16 December 1917 - 19 March 2008)
w/c 30.9.2019
"Vision is the art of seeing things invisible."
Jonathan Swift - Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet and cleric.
Best known for Gulliver's Travels.
(30 November 1667- 19 October 1745)
w/c 7.10.2019
"The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit."
François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon,commonly known as François Fénelon
French Roman Catholic archbishop, theologian, poet and writer.
(6 Aug 1651 - 7 Jan 1715)
w/c 14.10.2019
'Never hesitate to improvise'
The Book of Never - Ashton Shaw
The Never Game 2019 - Jeffery Deaver - Former journalist, attorney, folksinger and now
author of devillishly devious Mystery and Crime Thrillers.
( 6 May 1950 - )
w/c 21.10.2019
original by Joe Strummer / Mick Jones - Combat Rock 1981
covered by House of Commons Oct 2019
w/c 27.10.2019
"I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter."
Blaise Pascal - French child prodigy who became a mathematician, logician, physicist, inventor and theologian.
(19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662)
w/c 4.11.2019
"It is not how old you are, but how you are old."
Jules Renard - French Author and wit
(22 February 1864 - 22 May 1910)
w/c 11.11. 2019 (Remenberance Day)
"Those Brits are a strange old race, they show affection by abusing each other,
will think nothing of casually stopping in the middle of a firefight for their ‘brew up’ and eat food that I wouldn't give to a dying dog!
But fuck me, I would rather have one British squaddie on-side than an entire battalion of Spetznaz!!!... Why?
Because the British are the only people in the world who when the chips are down and there seems like no hope left,
instead of getting sentimental or hysterical, will strap on their pack, charge their rifle, light up a smoke and calmly and wryly grin…
"WELL ARE WE GOING THEN YOU WANKER??"
American Infantryman – Iraq 2005
w/c 18.11.2019
"The best advertising should make you nervous about what you're not buying."
Mary Wells Lawrence - American advertising executive. Founding president of Wells, Rich,Greene.
First female CEO of a company listed on the New York Stock Exchange
(25 May 1928)
w/c 25.11.2019
If you wish to be a writer, write."
Epictetus - Greek philosopher born a slave at Hierapolis, Phrygia and lived in Rome until banished to Greece.
(50 AD - 135 AD)
w/c 2.12.2019
"The concept of democracy is a f*****g joke."
(Matt Bellamy 2006)
Matthew James Bellamy - English singer, musician, and songwriter.
Lead singer, guitarist, pianist and primary songwriter of the rock band Muse.
(9 June 1978 - )
w/c 9.12.2019
"I am a deeply superficial person."
Andy Warhol - American artist, director, producer and leading figure in the pop art movement.
(6 August 1928- 22 February 1987)
w/c 16.12.2019
"Limitation makes the creative mind inventive.”
Walter Adolph Georg Gropius - German architect and founder of the influential Bauhaus School of design, architecture, and applied arts which
facilitated the creation of a 'Gesamtkunstwerk' – or total work of art – in which buildings and everything in them were designed as a whole entity.
( 18 May 1883 - 5 July 1969)
w/c 23.12.2019
"He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree."
Roy L. Smith - American Clergyman
(1887 - 1963)
w/c 30.12.2019
"There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind."
C.S. Lewis - British author, essayist, theologian and academic in English literature at both
Oxford University and Cambridge University. Best known for his children's classic series – The Chronicles of Narnia.
(29 November 1898- 22 November 1963)
