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The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band that formed in Liverpool in 1960. With members John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, they became widely regarded as the greatest and most influential act of the rock era. Rooted in skiffle, beat and 1950s rock and roll, the Beatles later experimented with several genres, ranging from pop ballads and Indian music to psychedelic and hard rock, often incorporating classical elements in innovative ways. In the early 1960s, their enormous popularity first emerged as "Beatlemania", but as the group's music grew in sophistication, led by primary songwriters Lennon and McCartney, they came to be perceived as an embodiment of the ideals shared by the era's sociocultural revolutions.


Quotes·Quotation by The Beatles

Life

¶ When the broken hearted people living in the world agree, there will be an answer Let it be. [Let it be]


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles#Abbey_Road.2C_Let_It_Be.2C_and_break-up

E. B. White (1899-1985)


E. B. White (1899-1985)

Elwyn Brooks White (July 11, 1899 – October 1, 1985), usually known as E. B. White, was an American writer. A long-time contributor to The New Yorker magazine, he also wrote many famous books for both adults and children, such as the popular Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little, and co-authored a widely used style guide, The Elements of Style, popularly known by its authors' names, as "Strunk & White."


Quotes·Quotation

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. [Politics·Government]


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.B._White

Havelock Ellis


Havelock Ellis (1859-1939)

Henry Havelock Ellis, known as Havelock Ellis (2 February 1859 – 8 July 1939), was a British physician, writer, and social reformer who studied human sexuality. He was co-author of the first medical textbook in English on homosexuality in 1897, and also published works on a variety of sexual practices and inclinations, including transgender psychology. He is credited with introducing the notions of narcissism and autoeroticism, later adopted by psychoanalysis. He served as president of the Galton Institute and, like many intellectuals of his era, supported eugenics.


Quotes·Quotations by Havelock Ellis

Beauty

¶ The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havelock_Ellis

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902)


Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902) was an American social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early woman's movement. Her Declaration of Sentiments, presented at the first women's rights convention held in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, is often credited with initiating the first organized woman's rights and woman's suffrage movements in the United States.

Before Stanton narrowed her political focus almost exclusively to women's rights, she was an active abolitionist together with her husband, Henry Brewster Stanton and cousin, Gerrit Smith. Unlike many of those involved in the woman's rights movement, Stanton addressed various issues pertaining to women beyond voting rights. Her concerns included women's parental and custody rights, property rights, employment and income rights, divorce laws, the economic health of the family, and birth control. She was also an outspoken supporter of the 19th-century temperance movement.

After the American Civil War, Stanton's commitment to female suffrage caused a schism in the woman's rights movement when she, together with Susan B. Anthony, declined to support passage of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. She opposed giving added legal protection and voting rights to African American men while women, black and white, were denied those same rights. Her position on this issue, together with her thoughts on organized Christianity and women's issues beyond voting rights, led to the formation of two separate women's rights organizations that were finally rejoined, with Stanton as president of the joint organization, approximately twenty years after her break from the original women's suffrage movement.


Quotes·Quotation

Men·Women

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Cady_Stanton

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)


Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (6 March 1806 – 29 June 1861) was one of the most prominent poets of the Victorian era. Her poetry was widely popular in both England and the United States during her lifetime. A collection of her last poems was published by her husband, Robert Browning, shortly after her death.


Quotes·Quotation

Advice

Since when was genius found respectable?

Attitude

¶ Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Barrett_Browning

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926-2004)


Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926-2004)

Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross M.D. (8 July 1926 – 24 August 2004) was a psychiatrist, and a pioneer of near-death studies.


Quotes·Quotations by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Beauty

¶ The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.

***

@ We make progress in society only if we stop cursing and complaining about its shortcomings and have the courage to do something about them.

@ People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. [As quoted in The Leader's Digest : Timeless Principles for Team and Organization (2003) by Jim Clemmer, p. 84]


http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Elisabeth_K%C3%BCbler-Ross

Elena Gilbert (1993- , Vampire Diaries)


Elena Gilbert (1993- , Vampire Diaries)

Born on 22 June 1993, Elena Gilbert, portrayed by Nina Dobrev since the pilot, is the series' female protagonist. Elena lives with her younger brother, Jeremy Gilbert, and her aunt, Jenna Sommers, who became her legal guardian after her parents died in a car crash. Her best friend is Bonnie Bennett, who later discovers she is a witch, and she is frenemies with Caroline Forbes, although when Caroline is turned into a vampire they become good friends. Before the beginning of the series she was in a relationship with Matt Donovan, who still carries a torch for her in the beginning of the series. She later begins a relationship with Stefan Salvatore, whom she discovers is a vampire. Stefan's brother Damon also falls in love with Elena. At the end of season one, Elena discovers that her parents aren't actually her biological parents, but that she is actually the daughter of John Gilbert, who she thought was her uncle, and Isobel Flemming, who was turned into a vampire by Damon Salvatore, is Elena's mom. In season two she learns that she is a Petrova doppelgänger, just like Katherine Pierce, which means that she has to be sacrificed to release Klaus' werewolf side. The sacrifice later happens, but Elena is saved, because John sacrificed himself for her after being put under a spell by Bonnie. However, her aunt Jenna is turned in to a vampire and, as part of the sacrifice, is killed by Klaus, leaving Elena without a guardian. In the season two finale, while Damon is dying due to a werewolf bite, she forgives him for forcing her to drink his blood and kisses him with the thought that it might be Damon's last day, however Damon gets cured by drinking Klaus' blood. In season three, Elena does everything in her power to make Stefan get his humanity back, which was turned off by Klaus. Meanwhile, she grows closer to Damon while working together on saving Stefan and trying to defeat Klaus, eventually even sharing a kiss. She later admits to Stefan that she has feelings for Damon as well. While in Denver together, Elena kisses Damon, later telling him that she doesn't know how she feels.


Quotes·Quotation by Elena Gilbert

Nina Dobrev as Elena Gilbert from Vampire Diaries

¶ They just don't care any more. They don't remember that our parents are dead, they have their own lives to deal with. The rest of the world has moved on. You should try to. [Vampire Diaries, Pilot 1.1]

¶ Dear Diary, Today will be different. It has to be. I will smile, and it will be believable. My smile will say, "I'm fine, thank you. Yes, I feel much better." I will no longer be the sad little girl that lost her parents. I will start fresh, be someone new. It's the only way I'll make it through. [Vampire Diaries, Pilot 1.1]

¶ Dear Diary, I made it through the day. I must have said "I'm fine, thanks" at least 37 times. And I didn't mean it once. But no one noticed. When someone asks "How are you?", they really don't want an answer. [Vampire Diaries, Pilot 1.1]

¶ All you can do is be ready for the good, so when it comes, you invite it in. Because you need it. I need it. [Vampire Diaries, Pilot 1.1]

¶ When you lose someone, it stays with you. Always reminding you of how easy it is to get hurt. [Vampire Diaries, 1.2 The Night of the Comet]

¶ I would write, `Dear Diary, Today I convinced myself it's okay to give up. Stick with the status quo, now just isn't the time. But my reasons aren't reasons, they're excuses and the truth is, I'm scared` Stefan. I'm scared that if I let myself be happy for one minute, that the my world's going to come crashing down and I don't know if I'll be able to survive that. [Vampire Diaries, 1.2 The Night of the Comet]

¶ Well, then say something about yourself.. anything. Otherwise, I'm left with nothing but what other people tell me. [Vampire Diaries, 1.4 Family Ties]

¶ No, I'm not okay with any of it. I'm not gonna cry about it either. Honestly, I'm not gonna be one of those pathetic girls whose world stops spinning because of some guy. [Vampire Diaries, 1.5 You're Undead To Me (2009)]

¶ Dear Diary, I'm not a believer. People are born, they grow old and then they die. That's the world we live in. There's no magic, no mysticism, no immortality. There is nothing that defies rational thought. It's not possible. I'm not a believer, I can't be. But how can I deny what's right in front of me? Someone who never grows old.. never gets hurt.. someone who changes in ways that can't be explained. Girls bitten.. bodies drained of blood.. [Vampire Diaries, 1.5 You're Undead To Me (2009)]

¶ (Thinks, and gets out of the car, with a determined face) No. You don't get to make that decision for me. If you walk away, it's for you because I know what I want. Stefan I love you. [Vampire Diaries, 01.10 The Turning Points (2009)]

¶ If you don't come with me, I'm going by myself. What? You're the one who told me that I could handle things on my own now. [Vampire Diaries, 03.02 The Hybrid]


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Vampire_Diaries_characters

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)


Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (/ˈɛlɨnɔr ˈroʊzəvɛlt/; October 11, 1884 — November 7, 1962) was the longest-serving First Lady of the United States, holding the post from 1933 to 1945 during her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms in office. President Harry S. Truman later called her the "First Lady of the World" in tribute to her human rights achievements.[1]

Born into a wealthy and well-connected New York family, the Roosevelts, Eleanor had an unhappy childhood, suffering the deaths of both parents and one of her brothers at a young age. At 15, she attended Allenwood Academy in London, and was deeply influenced by feminist headmistress Marie Souvestre. Returning to the US, she married her cousin Franklin Roosevelt in 1905. The Roosevelts' marriage was complicated from the beginning by Franklin's controlling mother, Sara and after discovering Franklin's affair with Lucy Mercer in 1918, Eleanor resolved to seek fulfillment in a public life of her own. She persuaded Franklin to stay in politics following his partial paralysis from polio, and began to give speeches and campaign in his place. After Franklin's election as Governor of New York, Eleanor regularly made public appearances on his behalf. She had also shaped the role of First Lady during her tenure and beyond.
Though widely respected in her later years, Roosevelt was a controversial First Lady for her outspokenness, particularly her stands on racial issues. She was the first presidential spouse to hold press conferences, write a syndicated newspaper column, and speak at a national convention. On a few occasions, she publicly disagreed with her husband's policies. She launched an experimental community at Arthurdale, West Virginia for the families of unemployed miners, later widely regarded as a failure. She advocated for expanded roles for women in the workplace, the civil rights of African Americans and Asian Americans, and the rights of World War II refugees.

Following her husband's death, Eleanor remained active in politics for the rest of her life. She pressed the US to join and support the United Nations and became one of its first delegates. She served as the first chair of the UN Commission on Human Rights, and oversaw the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Later she chaired the John F. Kennedy administration's Presidential Commission on the Status of Women. By her death, she was regarded as "one of the most esteemed women in the world" and "the object of almost universal respect".[2] In 1999, she was ranked in the top ten of Gallup's List of Most Widely Admired People of the 20th Century.[3]


Quotes·Quotations by Eleanor Roosevelt

Friend

¶ Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.

Present

¶ Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.


Notes

[1]^ "First Lady of the World: Eleanor Roosevelt at Val-Kill". National Park Service. Archived from the original on November 21, 2012. Retrieved May 20, 2008.
[2]^ a b "Mrs. Roosevelt, First Lady 12 Years, Often Called 'World's Most Admired Woman'". The New York Times. November 8, 1962. Archived from the original on December 7, 2012. Retrieved December 7, 2012.
[3]^ "Mother Teresa Voted by American People as Most Admired Person of the Century". The Gallup Organization. December 31, 1999. Archived from the original on November 21, 2012. Retrieved May 20, 2008.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Roosevelt

Paul Eldridge

Paul Eldridge


Quotes·Quotations by Paul Eldridge

Reality



@ In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.

Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)


Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)

Elbert Green Hubbard (June 19, 1856 – May 7, 1915) was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. Raised in Hudson, Illinois, he met early success as a traveling salesman with the Larkin soap company. Today Hubbard is mostly known as the founder of the Roycroft artisan community in East Aurora, New York, an influential exponent of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Among his many publications were the nine-volume work Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great and the short story A Message to Garcia. He and his second wife, Alice Moore Hubbard, died aboard the RMS Lusitania, which was sunk by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland on May 7, 1915.


Quotes·Quotations by Elbert Hubbard

Advice

¶ Live truth instead of professing it.

Confidence

¶ Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

Experience

¶ Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes. [The Roycroft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams (1923)]

Failure

¶ The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Friend

¶ Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Happiness

¶ Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Life

¶ Life is just one damned thing after another.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbert_Hubbard

Egypt


Arab Republic of Egypt
جمهورية مصر العربية
Ǧumhūriyyat Maṣr al-ʿArabiyyah

Egypt i/ˈiːdʒɪpt/ (Arabic: مصر‎ Miṣr, Egyptian Arabic: [mɑsˤɾ], Literary Arabic: [mesˤr]; Coptic: Ⲭⲏⲙⲓ Kīmi ; Sahidic Coptic: ⲕⲏⲙⲉ Kēme), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: جمهورية مصر العربية (help·info), is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world. Covering an area of about 1,010,000 square kilometers (390,000 sq mi), Egypt is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south and Libya to the west.

Egypt is one of the most populous countries in Africa and the Middle East. The great majority of its over 82.2 million people live near the banks of the Nile River, in an area of about 40,000 square kilometers (15,000 sq mi), where the only arable land is found. The large areas of the Sahara Desert are sparsely inhabited. About half of Egypt's residents live in urban areas, with most spread across the densely populated centres of greater Cairo, Alexandria and other major cities in the Nile Delta.

Monuments in Egypt such as the Giza pyramid complex and its Great Sphinx were constructed by its ancient civilization. Its ancient ruins, such as those of Memphis, Thebes, and Karnak and the Valley of the Kings outside Luxor, are a significant focus of archaeological study. The tourism industry and the Red Sea Riviera employ about 12% of Egypt's workforce.

The economy of Egypt is one of the most diversified in the Middle East, with sectors such as tourism, agriculture, industry and service at almost equal production levels.


Egyptian Proverb

Beauty

¶ The beetle is a beauty in the eyes of its mother.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt

Joseph Addison (1672-1719)

Joseph Addison (1672-1719)

Joseph Addison (May 1 1672 – June 17 1719) was an English politician and writer. His name is often remembered in tandem with that of his friend, Richard Steele, with whom he founded The Spectator magazine.


Admiration

@ Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
Joseph Addison in Spectator No. 256 (24 December 1711).

Courage

@ I think the Romans call it Stoicism. [Joseph Addison, Cato, A Tragedy (1713), Act I, scene 4.]

Friendship

@ The friendships of the world are oft
Confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasure;
Ours has severest virtue for its basis,
And such a friendship ends not but with life.
[Joseph Addison, in Cato, A Tragedy (1713), Act III, scene 1.]

Henry Beston


Henry Beston


Quotes·Quotations by Henry Beston

Autumn

¶ The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools.

Ken Blanchard (1939~ )


Ken Blanchard (1939~ )

Kenneth Hartley Blanchard (born May 6, 1939) is an American author and management expert.


Quotes·Quotations by Ken Blanchard

Attitude

¶ Don't quack like a duck.. soar like an eagle.

Work

¶ As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you are not there.

¶ People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

¶ When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Blanchard

Ed Bluestone


Ed Bluestone


Quotes·Quotation

Food·Dieting

¶ I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat people.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)


Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)

Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (25 May 1803 – 18 January 1873) was an English novelist, playwright, and politician.


Quotes·Quotations by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Advice

¶ Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword.
[Richelieu (1839)]

Attitudes

¶ When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.

Heart

¶ A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
[The Disowned (1828), Chapter xxxiii.]


http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edward_Bulwer-Lytton

Edward Estlin Cummings (1894-1962)


E. E. Cummings (1894-1962)

Edward Estlin Cummings (October 14, 1894 – September 3, 1962), popularly known as E. E. Cummings, with the abbreviated form of his name often written by others in lowercase letters as e.e. cummings (in the style of some of his poems—see name and capitalization, below), was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. His body of work encompasses approximately 2,900 poems, two autobiographical novels, four plays and several essays, as well as numerous drawings and paintings. He is remembered as a preeminent voice of 20th century poetry.


Quotes·Quotations by Edward Estlin Cummings

Acceptance

¶ It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Estlin_Cummings

Edward Grandpa Jones


Edward Grandpa Jones


Quotes·Quotations by Edward Grandpa Jones

Food·Dieting

¶ Chocolate is like medicine - but as with medicine, the key is the proper dose. Don't overdo it.

¶ If food is your best friend, it's also your worst enemy.

Edward G. Robinson (1893-1973)


Edward G. Robinson (1893-1973)

Edward G. Robinson (Yiddish: עמנואל גאָלדנבערג Emanuel Goldnberg; December 12, 1893 – January 26, 1973) was a Romanian-born American actor. A popular star during Hollywood's Golden Age, he is best remembered for his roles as gangsters, such as Rico in his star-making film Little Caesar and as Rocco in Key Largo. Other memorable roles include Barton Keyes in the film noir Double Indemnity, and as Dathan in The Ten Commandments. Robinson was selected for an Honorary Academy Award for his work in the film industry, which was posthumously awarded two months after the actor's death in 1973. He was included in the American Film Institute's list of the 25 greatest male stars in American cinema.


Quotes·Quotations by Edward G. Robinson

Edward G. Robinson as Cesare Enrico Rico Bandello from Little Caesar (1930)

Mother of Mercy! Is this the end of Rico?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_G._Robinson

Edward Teller (1908-2003)


Edward Teller (1908-2003)

Edward Teller (Hungarian: Teller Ede; January 15, 1908 – September 9, 2003) was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist, known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb", even though he claimed he did not care for the title. Teller made numerous contributions to nuclear and molecular physics, spectroscopy (the Jahn–Teller and Renner–Teller effects), and surface physics. His extension of Fermi's theory of beta decay (in the form of the so-called Gamow–Teller transitions) provided an important stepping stone in the applications of this theory. The Jahn–Teller effect and the BET theory have retained their original formulation and are still mainstays in physics and chemistry. Teller also made contributions to Thomas–Fermi theory, the precursor of density functional theory, a standard modern tool in the quantum mechanical treatment of complex molecules. In 1953, along with Nicholas Metropolis and Marshall Rosenbluth, Teller co-authored a paper which is a standard starting point for the applications of the Monte Carlo method to statistical mechanics.

Teller emigrated to the United States in the 1930s, and was an early member of the Manhattan Project charged with developing the first atomic bombs. During this time he made a serious push to develop the first fusion-based weapons as well, but these were deferred until after World War II. After his controversial testimony in the security clearance hearing of his former Los Alamos colleague J. Robert Oppenheimer, Teller was ostracized by much of the scientific community. He continued to find support from the U.S. government and military research establishment, particularly for his advocacy for nuclear energy development, a strong nuclear arsenal, and a vigorous nuclear testing program. He was a co-founder of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), and was both its director and associate director for many years.

In his later years he became especially known for his advocacy of controversial technological solutions to both military and civilian problems, including a plan to excavate an artificial harbor in Alaska using thermonuclear explosives. He was a vigorous advocate of Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative. Throughout his life, Teller was known both for his scientific ability and his difficult interpersonal relations and volatile personality, and is considered one of the inspirations for the character Dr. Strangelove in the 1964 movie of the same name.


Quotes·Quotation

Life

Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Teller

E.M. Foster (1879-1970)


E.M. Foster (1879-1970)

Edward Morgan Forster OM, CH (1 January 1879 – 7 June 1970) was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society. Forster's humanistic impulse toward understanding and sympathy may be aptly summed up in the epigraph to his 1910 novel Howards End: "Only connect."


Quotes·Quotation

Politics·Government

Two cheers for democracy: one because it admit variety and two because it permits criticism. Two cheers are quite enough: There is no occasion to give three.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._M._Forster

Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)


Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)

Edward Gibbon (27 April 1737 – 16 January 1794) was an English historian and Member of Parliament. His most important work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, was published in six volumes between 1776 and 1788. The Decline and Fall is known for the quality and irony of its prose, its use of primary sources, and its open criticism of organized religion.


Quotes·Quotation

Solitude·Self-reliance

I was never less alone than when by myself.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Gibbon

Thomas Haynes Bayly (1797-1839)

Thomas Haynes Bayly (1797-1839)

Thomas Haynes Bayly (13 October 1797 – 22 April 1839) was a popular miscellaneous writer best known for his songs.


Absence

@ Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Thomas Haynes Bayly, Isle of Beauty.


http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Haynes_Bayly

Edvard Munch (1863-1944)


Edvard Munch (1863-1944)

Edvard Munch (Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈmʉŋk], 12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944) was a Norwegian painter and printmaker whose intensely evocative treatment of psychological themes built upon some of the main tenets of late 19th-century Symbolism and greatly influenced German Expressionism in the early 20th century. One of his most well-known works is The Scream of 1893.


Quotes·Quotations by Edvard Munch

Death·Immortality

¶ From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edvard_Munch

Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)


Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)

Edmund Spenser (c. 1552 – 13 January 1599) was an English poet best known for The Faerie Queene, an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I. He is recognised as one of the premier craftsmen of Modern English verse in its infancy, and one of the greatest poets in the English language.


Quotes·Quotation

Beauty

¶ O, how can beauty master the most strong!


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Spenser

Edmond O'Brien (1915-1985)


Edmond O'Brien (1915-1985)

Edmond O'Brien (September 10, 1915 – May 9, 1985) was an American actor who is perhaps best remembered for his role in D.O.A. (1950) and his Oscar winning role in The Barefoot Contessa (1954). His many memorable films included The Killers, White Heat, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and The Wild Bunch.


Quotes·Quotation by Edmond O'Brien

Edmond O'Brien as Hank Fallon/Vic Pardo from White Heat (1949)

¶ He finally got to the top of the world... and it blew right up in his face.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmond_O'Brien

Edith Sitwell (1887-1964)


Edith Sitwell (1887-1964)

Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell DBE (7 September 1887 – 9 December 1964) was a British poet and critic, eldest of the three literary Sitwells.

Like her brothers Osbert and Sacheverell, Edith reacted badly to her eccentric, unloving parents, and lived for much of her life with her governess. Never married, she became passionately attached to the gay Russian painter Pavel Tchelitchew, and her home was always open to London's poetic circle, to whom she was unfailingly generous and helpful.

Edith published poetry continuously from 1913, some of it abstract and set to music. With her dramatic style and exotic costumes, she was sometimes labelled a poseur, but her work was also praised for its solid technique and painstaking craftsmanship.


Quotes·Quotations by Edith Sitwell

Rain

¶ Still falls the rain --
Dark as the world of man, black as our loss --
Blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross [Still falls the rain]

Reading

¶ My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

@ I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Sitwell


Images

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Images: Sitwell Family; From left: Edith Sitwell (1887-1964), Sir George Sitwell, Lady Ida, Sacheverell Sitwell (1897-1988), and Osbert Sitwell (1892-1969)

Edith Wharton (1862-1937)


Edith Wharton (1862-1937)

Edith Wharton (born Edith Newbold Jones, January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937; English pronunciation: / ˈiːdɪθ ˈwɔːrtən/), was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer.


Quotes·Quotation

Inspiration

¶ There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Wharton

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe


Quotes·Quotations by Edgar Allan Poe

Reality



@ All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Edge Keynote


Edge Keynote


Quotes·Quotation

Advice

¶ When you have done your best, await the result in peace.

Solitude·Self-reliance

¶ If you don't think highly of yourself, why would anyone else?

Eden Ahbez



Eden Ahbez

eden ahbez (15 April 1908 – 4 March 1995) was an American poet, musician, and songwriter; born Alexander Aberle, adopted and raised as George McGrew, he insisted on spelling his adult name in lower-case letters, and was called "ahbe" by his family and friends.



Love

@ The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.


http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eden_Ahbez

William Congreve (1670-1729)

William
Congreve,

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Commons

William Congreve (1670-1729)

William Congreve (24 January 1670 – 19 January 1729) was an English playwright and poet.


Quotes·Quotations by William Congreve

Woman

¶ Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. [spoken by Zara in Act III, Scene VIII in The Mourning Bride of 1697]
This is usually paraphrased as "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned."


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Earl Nightingale

Earl Nightingale

@ Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.

Earl Wilson (1907-1987)


Earl Wilson (1907-1987)

Harvey Earl Wilson (May 3, 1907–January 16, 1987), born Harvey Earl Wilson, was an American journalist, gossip columnist and author, perhaps best known for his nationally syndicated newspaper column, It Happened Last Night.

Born in Rockford in Mercer County in western Ohio, Wilson attended Heidelberg College and graduated from Ohio State University in 1931 with a B. S. in journalism.

Wilson's column originated from the New York Post and ran from 1942 until 1983. His chronicling of the Broadway scene during the "Golden Age" of show business formed the basis for a book published in 1971, The Show Business Nobody Knows. He signed his columns with the tag line, "That's Earl, brother." His nickname was "Midnight Earl". In later years, the name of his column was changed to Last Night With Earl Wilson. In his final years with the Post, he alternated with the paper's entertainment writer and restaurant critic, Martin Burden, in turning out the column. (Burden, who died in 1993, took over the Last Night column full-time upon Wilson's retirement.)

Wilson is also the author of two controversial books, Show Business Laid Bare, and an unauthorized biography of Frank Sinatra, Sinatra – An Unauthorized Biography. The former book is notable for revealing the extramarital affairs of President John F. Kennedy.

In the early 1950s, Wilson was an occasional panelist on the NBC game show, Who Said That?, in which celebrities tried to determine the speaker of quotations taken from recent news reports.

Wilson appeared in a few films as himself, notably Copacabana (1947) with Groucho Marx and Carmen Miranda, A Face in the Crowd (1957) with Andy Griffith, College Confidential (1960), and Beach Blanket Bingo (1965) with Paul Lynde. Wilson also hosted the DuMont TV show Stage Entrance from May 1951 to March 1952.

Wilson died in Yonkers, New York. His son, Earl Wilson, Jr., became a songwriter for the musical theatre.


Quotes·Quotation by Earl Wilson

Courage

¶ Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you’re scared to death.


Earl Wilson (politician) (1906-1990), U.S. Representative from Indiana
Earl Wilson (columnist) (1907-1987), U.S. journalist
Earl Wilson (baseball) (1934-2005), U.S. baseball pitcher

Jack Haley (1898-1979)


Jack Haley (1898-1979)

John Joseph "Jack" Haley (August 10, 1898 – June 6, 1979) was an American stage, radio, and film actor best known for his portrayal of the Tin Man and Kansas farmworker Hickory in The Wizard of Oz.


Quotes·Quotations by Jack Haley

Jack Haley as Hickory/Tin Woodsman from The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Now I know I've got a heart, 'cause it's breaking...


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