Quotation for You

Dario Fo -Actor

Know how to live the time that is given you. - Dario Fo

Dario Fo (1826-2016) was an Italian actor–playwright, comedian, singer, theater director, stage designer, songwriter, painter, political campaigner for the Italian left-wing and the recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature. - Wikipedia

Image: findgrave.com

Wednesday, 15th July, 2015

Robert Louis Stevenson – Novelist

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (1850-1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. - Wikipedia

Image: poetryfoundation.org

Quotation for You

Jorge Luis Borges-Short story writer

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream - Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo KBE (1899-1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish-language literature. - Wikipedia

Quotation for You

Alan Rickman-Actor

Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility. - Alan Rickman

Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman (1946-2016) was an English actor and director known for playing a variety of roles on stage and on screen. - Wikipedia

Quotation for You

Italo Calvino-Journalist

It is not the voice that commands the story; it is the ear. - Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino (1923-1985) was an Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels. - Wikipedia

Quotation for You

Sean Connery- Actor

There is nothing like a challenge to bring out the best in man. - Sean Connery

Sir Thomas Sean Connery (born 1930) is a retired Scottish actor and producer who has won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards, and three Golden Globes. He was knighted by Elizabeth II in July 2000 after receiving Kennedy Center Honors in the US in 1999. - Wikipedia

Quotation for You

Susan B. Anthony-Social Reformer

Independence is happiness. - Susan B. Anthony

Susan Brownell Anthony (1820-1906) was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. - Wikipedia

Image: biography.com

Quotation for You

Malcolm X-Minister

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything. - Malcolm X

Malcolm X (1925-1965) was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist. -Wikipedia

Image: malcomx.com

Quotation for You

Tawakkol Karman-Journalist

Peace does not mean just to stop wars, but also to stop oppression and injustice. - Tawakkol Karman

Tawakkol Abdel-Salam Karman (born 1979) is a Yemeni journalist, politician, and human rights activist. She leads the group "Women Journalists Without Chains," which she co-founded in 2005. - Wikipedia

In 2011, at the age of 32, she became the youngest person ever awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Image: theextrodinary.org

Quotation for You

John Cheever-Novelist

Art is the triumph over chaos. - John Cheever

John William Cheever (1912-1982) was an American novelist and short story writer. He is sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs".  - Wikipedia

Quotation for You

Caroline Herschel-Astronomer

As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency. - Caroline Herschel

Caroline Lucretia Herschel (1750-1848) was a German astronomer, whose most significant contributions to astronomy were the discoveries of several comets, including the periodic comet 35P/Herschel-Rigollet, which bears her name. - Wikipedia

Quotation for You

James Joyce -Novelist

Mistakes are the portals of discovery. - James Joyce

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (1882-1941) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, and poet. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde and is regarded as one of the most influential and important authors of the 20th century. - Wikipedia

Quotation for You

Vincent van Gogh-Painter

Art is to console those who are broken by life. - Vincent van Gogh

Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853-1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. - Wikipedia

Image: biography.com

Quotation for You

Plutarch-Biographer

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly. - Plutarch

Plutarch (45-120) was a Greek biographer and essayist, known primarily for his Parallel Lives and Moralia. He is classified as a Middle Platonist. Plutarch's surviving works were written in Greek, but intended for both Greek and Roman readers. - Wikipedia

Quotation for You

Mikhail Gorbachev-Statesman

If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today. -  Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (born 1931) is a former Soviet statesman. He was the eighth and final leader of the Soviet Union, having been General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991, when the party was dissolved. - Wikipedia

Image: biography.com

Quotation for You

Anne Sullivan-Teacher

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction. - Anne Sullivan

Johanna Mansfield Sullivan Macy, known as Anne Sullivan,(1866-1936)  was an American teacher, best known for being the instructor and lifelong companion of Helen Keller.- Wikipedia

Image: biography.com

Quotation for You

Jodie Foster-Actress

My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you're most ashamed of. - Jodie Foster

Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster (born 1962) is an American actress and filmmaker who has worked in films and on television. She has often been cited as one of the best actresses of her generation. - Wikipedia

Quotation for You

Arthur C. Clarke -Fiction writer

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. - Arthur C. Clarke

Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE, FRAS (1917-2008) was a British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host. -Wikipedia

Image: faculty.ubu.edu

Quotation for You

Stephen Hawking-Theoretical physicist

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.  - Stephen Hawking

Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA (born 1942)  is an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology within the University of Cambridge. -Wikipedia

Image: knowyourmeme.com

Quotation for You

Carl Sagan-Astronomer

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. - Carl Sagan

Carl Edward Sagan was (1934-1996) an astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, science popularizer, and science communicator in astronomy and other natural sciences.  - Wikipedia

Quotation for You

Laurence J. Peter-Educator

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. - Laurence J. Peter

Laurence Johnston Peter (1919-1990) was a Canadian educator. - Wikipedia

Image: nndb.com

Quotation for You

Citium Zeno- Philosopher

We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say. - Citium Zeno

Zeno of Citium (334 BC – 262 BC) was a Greek philosopher from Cyprus, and was the founder of the Stoic school of philosophy which he taught in Athens, from about 300 BC. - Wikipedia.

Quotation for You

Philip Sidney-Poet

Either I will find a way, or I will make one. - Philip Sidney

Sir Philip Sidney (1554-586) was an English poet, courtier, scholar, and soldier, who is remembered as one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age. - Wikipedia

Image: biography.com

Quotation for You

Willa Cather-Writer

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. - Willa Cather

Willa Sibert Cather (1873-1947) was an American writer who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Ántonia. - Wikipedia

Quotation for You

Warren G. Bennis-Scholar

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.  - Warren G. Bennis

Warren Gamaliel Bennis (1925-2014) was an American scholar, organizational consultant and author, widely regarded as a pioneer of the contemporary field of Leadership studies. - Wikipedia

Image: new.usc.edu

Quotation for You

John Adams-2nd U.S. President

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. - John Adams

John Adams (1735-1826) was an American patriot who served as the second President of the United States and the first Vice President. - Wikipedia

Quotation for You

Philip James Bailey-Poet

Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art. - Philip James Bailey

Philip James Bailey (1816-1902) was an English Spasmodic poet, best known as the author of Festus. - Wikipedia

Image: quotationof.com

Quotation for You

Don Marquis-Humorist

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun. - Don Marquis

Donald Robert Perry Marquis (1878-1937) was a humorist, journalist, and author. He was variously a novelist, poet, newspaper columnist, and playwright. He is remembered best for creating the characters Archy and Mehitabel, supposed authors of humorous verse. - Wikipedia

Quotation for You

Arthur Schopenhauer-Philosopher

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. - Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) was a German philosopher. He is best known for his 1818 work The World as Will and Representation, wherein he characterizes the phenomenal world as the product of a blind and insatiable metaphysical will. - Wikipedia

Quotation for You

Helen Hayes-Actress

We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too. - Helen Hayes

Helen Hayes MacArthur (1900-1993) was an American actress whose career spanned almost 80 years. She eventually garnered the nickname "First Lady of American Theatre" and was one of 12 people who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award. - Wikipedia

Image: youtube.com

Quotation for You

Luc de Clapiers- Writer

Patience is the art of hoping. - Luc de Clapiers

Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues (1715-1747) was a minor French writer, a moralist. He died at age 31, in broken health, having published the year prior—anonymously—a collection of essays and aphorisms with the encouragement of Voltaire, his friend. -  Wikipedia

Quotation for You

François de La Rochefoucauld-Author

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves. - Francois de la Rochefoucauld

François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac (1613-1680) was a noted French author of maxims and memoirs. It is said that his world-view was clear-eyed and urbane, and that he neither condemned human conduct nor sentimentally celebrated it. - Wikipedia

Image: artofmanliness.com