Life & People: 04/1979

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.[1]

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.

Images

Wikimedia Commons

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

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Sitwell

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

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