Salman Rushdie (1947- )
Sir Salman Rushdie (born Ahmed Salman Rushdie, Urdu: أحمد سلمان رشدی, Hindi: अह्मद सलमान रश्डी on 19 June 1947) is an Indian-born British essayist and author of fiction, most of which is set on the Indian subcontinent.
Quotes·Quotations by Salman Rushdie
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@ I do not envy people who think they have a complete explanation of the world, for the simple reason that they are obviously wrong.
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http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Salman_Rushdie
Iain Pears (1955- )
Iain Pears (1955- )
Iain Pears (born in 1955) is an English art historian, novelist and journalist. He was educated at Warwick School, Warwick, Wadham College and Wolfson College, Oxford. Before writing, he worked as a reporter for the BBC, Channel 4 (UK) and ZDF (Germany) and correspondent for Reuters from 1982 to 1990 in Italy, France, UK and US. In 1987 he became a Getty Fellow in the Arts and Humanities at Yale University. His well-known novel series features Jonathan Argyll, art historian, though international fame first arrived with his best selling book An Instance of the Fingerpost (1998), which was translated into several languages. Pears currently lives with his wife and children in Oxford.
Quotes·Quotations by Iain Pears
Beauty
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Pears
Hyman G. Rickover (1900-1986)
Hyman George Rickover (1900-1986)
Hyman George Rickover (January 27, 1900 – July 8, 1986) was a four-star admiral of the United States Navy who directed the original development of naval nuclear propulsion and controlled its operations for three decades as director of Naval Reactors. In addition, he oversaw the development of the Shippingport Atomic Power Station, the world's first commercial pressurized water reactor used for generating electricity.
Rickover is known as the "Father of the Nuclear Navy", which as of July 2007 had produced 200 nuclear-powered submarines, and 23 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and cruisers, though many of these U.S. vessels are now decommissioned and others under construction.
With his unique personality, political connections, responsibilities, and depth of knowledge regarding naval nuclear propulsion, Rickover became the longest-serving naval officer in U.S. history with 63 years active duty.
Rickover's substantial legacy of technical achievements includes the United States Navy's continuing record of zero reactor accidents, as defined by the uncontrolled release of fission products subsequent to reactor core damage.
Quotes
The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyman_G._Rickover
H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
Henry Louis "H. L." Mencken (September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956) was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, critic of American life and culture, and scholar of American English.[1] Known as the "Sage of Baltimore", he is regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the twentieth century. Many of his books remain in print.
Mencken is known for writing The American Language, a multi-volume study of how the English language is spoken in the United States, and for his satirical reporting on the Scopes trial, which he dubbed the "Monkey Trial". He commented widely on the social scene, literature, music, prominent politicians, pseudo-experts, the temperance movement, and uplifters. A keen cheerleader of scientific progress, he was very skeptical of economic theories and particularly critical of anti-intellectualism, bigotry, populism, fundamentalist christianity, creationism, organized religion, the existence of God, and osteopathic/chiropractic medicine.
In addition to his literary accomplishments, Mencken was known for his controversial ideas. A frank admirer of German philosopher Nietzsche, he was not a proponent of representative democracy, which he believed was a system in which inferior men dominated their superiors.[2] During and after World War I, he was sympathetic to the Germans, and was very distrustful of British propaganda.[3] However, he also referred to Adolf Hitler and his followers as "ignorant thugs". Mencken, through his wide criticism of actions taken by government, has had a strong impact on the American libertarian movement.[4]
Quotes·Quotations by H. L. Mencken
Women
¶ Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t, they’d be married, too.
Notes
[1]^ Obituary Variety, February 1, 1956
[2]^ Mencken, Henry (1926). Notes on Democracy. New York: Alfred Knopf
[3]^ Hobson (1994), p. 435
[4]^ Burns, Jennifer (2009). Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 48. ISBN 978-0-19-532487-7.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._L._Mencken
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. is an American author best known for his inspirational book, Life's Little Instruction Book, which was a New York Times bestseller (1991–1994). Its sequel Life's Little Instruction Book: Volume 2 also made it to the same best seller list in 1993.
Quotes
Quotes·Quotation
Advice
¶ Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.
¶ If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
¶ Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._Jackson_Brown,_Jr.
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)
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Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)
Thomas Henry Huxley (4 May, 1825 – 29 June 1895) was an English biologist and anthropologist who specialized in comparative anatomy. A prominent defender of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, he was the grandfather of Julian, Aldous and Andrew Huxley. He was a critic of organised religion and devised the words "agnostic" and "agnosticism" to describe his own views.[1]
Quotes·Quotations by Thomas Henry Huxley
History
@ To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall.
"On the Educational Value of the Natural History Sciences" (1854) page 29
Life
@ Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once.
One of a series of exchanges when Richard Owen repeated generally repudiated claims about the Gorilla brain in a Royal Institution lecture. Athenaeum (13 April 1861) p.498; Browne Vol 2, p.159.
Science
@ Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science as the strangled snakes beside that of Hercules.
Darwiniana: the Origin of Species (1860).
¶ The great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Henry_Huxley
Humphrey Bogart (1899-1957)
Humphrey Bogart (1899-1957)
Humphrey DeForest Bogart (December 25, 1899 – January 14, 1957) was an American actor. He is widely regarded as a cultural icon. The American Film Institute ranked Bogart as the greatest male star in the history of American cinema.
After trying various jobs, Bogart began acting in 1921 and became a regular in Broadway productions in the 1920s and 1930s. When the stock market crash of 1929 reduced the demand for plays, Bogart turned to film. His first great success was as Duke Mantee in The Petrified Forest (1936), and this led to a period of typecasting as a gangster with films such as Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) and B-movies like The Return of Doctor X (1939).
Bogart's breakthrough as a leading man came in 1941, with High Sierra and The Maltese Falcon. The next year, his performance in Casablanca raised him to the peak of his profession and, at the same time, cemented his trademark film persona, that of the hard-boiled cynic who ultimately shows his noble side. Other successes followed, including To Have and Have Not (1944); The Big Sleep (1946); Dark Passage (1947) and Key Largo (1948), with his wife Lauren Bacall; The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948); In a Lonely Place (1950); The African Queen (1951), for which he won his only Academy Award; Sabrina (1954); and The Caine Mutiny (1954). His last movie was The Harder They Fall (1956). During a film career of almost thirty years, he appeared in 75 feature films.
Quotes·Quotation by Humphrey Bogart
¶ The, uh, stuff that dreams are made of.
¶ Here's looking at you, kid.
¶ Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
¶ We'll always have Paris. We didn't have it before...we'd...we'd lost it until you came to Casablanca. We got it back last night.
¶ Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphrey_Bogart
Hugh Downs (1921- )
Hugh Downs (1921- )
Hugh Malcolm Downs (born February 14, 1921) is a long-time American broadcaster, television host, news anchor, TV producer, author, game show host, and music composer; and is perhaps best known for his role as co-host the NBC News program Today from 1962 to 1971, host of the Concentration game show from 1958 to 1969, and anchor of the ABC News magazine 20/20 from 1978 to 1999. In addition, he's served as announcer/sidekick for The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar, host of the PBS talk show Over Easy and co-host of the syndicated talk show Not for Women Only.
Quotes·Quotation
Attitude
¶ A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Downs
Judy Holliday
Judy Holliday
Judy Holliday (June 21, 1921 – June 7, 1965) was an American actress.
Holliday began her career as part of a night-club act before working in Broadway plays and musicals. Her success in the 1946 stage production of Born Yesterday as "Billie Dawn" led to her being cast in the 1950 film version for which she won an Academy Award for Best Actress and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. She appeared regularly in films during the 1950s. She was noted for her performance on Broadway in the musical Bells Are Ringing, winning a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical and reprising her role in the 1960 film.
In 1952, Holliday was called to testify before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee to answer claims she was associated with communism. Though Holliday was not blacklisted from films, she was blacklisted from radio and television for almost three years.
Friends
@ Lovers have a right to betray you. Friends don't.
Hua Chunying (華春瑩)
Hua Chunying (華春瑩)
Quotes·Quotations by Hua Chunying (華春瑩)
Japan
¶ Abe's visit to the shrine has already attracted the Chinese people's ire and denunciation. How can a person who is not willing to face up to their own history, to facts, win the trust of the international community or cause people to believe he has a role to play in maintaining regional and global peace and stability? (Dec 27, 2013)
¶ I must point out that the territorial disputes between Japan and its neighbors stem from its past aggression and colonial rules. We hope that Japan can face up to history, have a deep reflection on it and take real action to win back trust from its Asian neighbors. [during a regular press briefing (2014.02.05)]
@ The more some Japanese people deny and evade history more difficult it will be for them to get rid of the judgement of the history and the heavier historical burden on their shoulders. [Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying (13 Jan 2014)]
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