P. J. O'Rourke

P. J. O'Rourke


Quotes·Quotations by P. J. O'Rourke

Appearance

@ The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.

P.C Cast (1960- )


P.C Cast (1960- )

Phyllis Christine Cast[3] (born 1960) is an American romance/fantasy author, known for the House of Night series she writes with her daughter Kristin Cast, as well as her own Goddess Summoning and Partholon book series.[4]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._C._Cast


Biography

P.C. Cast was born in the Midwest, and grew up being shuttled back-and-forth between Illinois and Oklahoma, which is where she fell in love with Quarter Horses and mythology (at about the same time). After high school she joined the United States Air Force and began public speaking and writing. After her tour in the USAF, she taught high school for 15 years before retiring to write full time. Ms. Cast is a New York Times Best-Selling author and a member of the Oklahoma Writers Hall of Fame. Her novels have been awarded the prestigious: Oklahoma Book Award, YALSA Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers, Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award, the Prism, Holt Medallion, Daphne du Maurier, Booksellers’ Best, and the Laurel Wreath. P.C. Cast is an experienced teacher and talented speaker. If your organization is interested in information about her appearances, please contact her publicist, Sherry Rowland, at lsherryr@aol.com Ms. Cast lives in Oklahoma with her fabulous daughter, her spoiled cat, her adorable Scotties, and a bunch of not totally normal horses!

http://www.pccast.net/biography.html


Quotes·Quotations by P.C. Cast

Beauty

¶ The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.


References

[1]^ Zi de nastere pe Amazon
[2]^ (English)Interviu cu P.C. Cast si Kristin Cast
[3]^ Vit Wagner, "Fame's at stake for Cast of two: Mother and daughter team's vampire formula", Toronto Star, March 29, 2009.
[4]^ a b c d Constance Drogranes,"Vampire love spikes in new book 'Hunted'", CTV News, March 26, 2009.


http://www.pccast.net/biography.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._C._Cast

John Weitz (1923-2002)


John Weitz (1923-2002)

(born May 25, 1923, Berlin, Ger.—died Oct. 3, 2002, Bridgehampton, N.Y.), German-born American fashion designer, novelist, and historian who , enhanced his renown as a menswear designer—and greatly increased his income—when he became one of the first to lend his name to the licensing of products.


Quotes·Quotations by John Weitz

Appearance

¶ Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses.

Publilius Syrus (1C BC-?)


Publilius Syrus (1C BC-?)

Publilius (less correctly Publius) Syrus, a Latin writer of maxims, flourished in the 1st century BC. He was a Syrian who was brought as a slave to Italy, but by his wit and talent he won the favour of his master, who freed and educated him.

His mimes, in which he acted himself, had a great success in the provincial towns of Italy and at the games given by Caesar in 46 BC. Publilius was perhaps even more famous as an improviser, and received from Caesar himself the prize in a contest in which he vanquished all his competitors, including the celebrated Decimus Laberius.

All that remains of his works is a collection of Sentences (Sententiae), a series of moral maxims in iambic and trochaic verse. This collection must have been made at a very early date, since it was known to Aulus Gellius in the 2nd century AD. Each maxim consists of a single verse, and the verses are arranged in alphabetical order according to their initial letters. In the course of time the collection was interpolated with sentences drawn from other writers, especially from apocryphal writings of Seneca; the number of genuine verses is about 700. They include many pithy sayings, such as the famous "iudex damnatur ubi nocens absolvitur" ("The judge is condemned when the guilty is acquitted") adopted as its motto by the Edinburgh Review.

As of 1911, the best texts of the Sentences were those of Eduard Wölfflin (1869), A. Spengel (1874), and Wilhelm Meyer (1880), with complete critical apparatus and index verborum; editions with notes by O. Friedrich (1880), R. A. H. Bickford-Smith (1895), with full bibliography; see also W. Meyer, Die Sammlungen der Spruchverse des Publilius Syrus (1877), an important work.


Quotes·Quotation by Publilius Syrus

Advice

¶ Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

¶ He who helps the guilty, shares the crime.

¶ He who loses credit can lose nothing further.

¶ If you wish to reach the highest, begin at lowest.

¶ The prompter the refusal, the less the disappointment.

Death·Immortality, Death, Immortality

¶ As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Friend

¶ Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

Love

¶ The anger of lovers renews the strength of love.

Work

¶ To do two things at once is to do neither.


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

Portugal


Portugal

Portugal i/ˈpɔrtʃʉɡəl/; Portuguese: Portugal, IPA: [puɾtuˈɣaɫ], officially the Portuguese Republic (Portuguese: República Portuguesa, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula. It is the westernmost country of mainland Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east. The Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira are Portuguese territory as well. The country is named after its second largest city, Porto, whose Latin name was Portus Cale.[1]

The land within the borders of the current Portuguese Republic has been continuously settled since prehistoric times. After a period of Roman rule followed by Visigothic and Suebian domination, in the 8th century most of the Iberian Peninsula was conquered by Moorish invaders professing Islam, who were later expelled by the Knights Templar. During the Christian Reconquista, Portugal established itself as an independent kingdom from León in 1139, claiming to be the oldest European nation-state.[2] In the 15th and 16th centuries, as the result of pioneering the Age of Discovery, Portugal expanded western influence and established the first global empire,[3] becoming one of the world's major economic, political and military powers. In addition, the Portuguese Empire was the longest-lived of the modern European colonial empires, spanning almost 600 years, from the capture of Ceuta in 1415 to the handover of Macau in 1999 and granting of sovereignty to East Timor in 2002. The empire spread throughout a vast number of territories that are now part of 53 different sovereign states. However, the country's international status was greatly reduced during the 19th century, especially following the Independence of Brazil, its largest colony. After the 1910 revolution deposed the monarchy, the democratic but unstable Portuguese First Republic was established, itself being superseded by the "Estado Novo" authoritarian regime. Democracy was restored after the Portuguese Colonial War and the Carnation Revolution in 1974.

As of 2011, the population of Portugal was 10,562,178, of which 547,733 live in Lisbon, the country's capital and largest city, located in the South, and 237,591 in Porto, also known as Oporto, the second-largest city, located in the North. The country is a democratic republic with a president (currently Aníbal Cavaco Silva) and prime minister (currently Pedro Passos Coelho). Since the 1990s, Portugal's economic development model has been slowly changing from one based on public consumption to one focused on exports, private investment, and development of the high-tech sector. The Portuguese currency is the euro (€) and the country's economy is in the eurozone.

Portugal is a developed country with a very high Human Development Index, the world's 19th-highest quality-of-life as of 2005, and a strong healthcare system. It is one of the world's most globalized and peaceful nations:[4] a member of the European Union and the United Nations, and a founding member of the Latin Union, the Organization of Ibero-American States, OECD, NATO, the Community of Portuguese Language Countries, the eurozone and the Schengen Agreement.


Portuguese Proverb

Love

¶ An old man in love is like a flower in winter.


Notes

[1]^ "Leite de Vasconcelos, José. Cale e Portucale. Opúsculos Vol. V – Etnologia (Parte I) Lisboa, Imprensa Nacional, 1938" (in Portuguese).
[2]^ Brian Jenkins, Spyros A. Sofos, "Nation and identity in contemporary Europe", p. 145, Routledge, 1996, ISBN 0-415-12313-5
[3]^ Melvin Eugene Page, Penny M. Sonnenburg, p. 481
[4]^ Global Peace Index. Institute for Economics and Peace. visionofhumanity.org (June 2012)


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Portugal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portugal

Poland and Polish


Poland and Polish

Poland

Poland Listeni/ˈpoʊlənd/ (Polish: Polska), officially the Republic of Poland (Polish: Rzeczpospolita Polska), is a country in Central Europe, bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast (a Russian exclave) and Lithuania to the north. The total area of Poland is 312,679 square kilometres (120,726 sq mi), making it the 69th largest country in the world and the 9th largest in Europe. With a population of over 38.5 million people, Poland is the 34th most populous country in the world, the sixth most populous member of the European Union, and the most populous post-communist member of the European Union. Poland is a unitary state divided into 16 administrative subdivisions.

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


Polish Proverbs

Appearance

¶ A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.

Language

¶ Words must be weighed, not counted.


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