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Phaedrus (15BC-50AD)

Phaedrus (15BC-50AD, fabulist)

Gaius Julius Phaedrus (/ˈfiːdrəs/; c. 15 BC – c. 50 AD), Roman fabulist, was probably a Thracian slave, born in Pydna of Roman Macedonia and lived in the reigns of Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula and Claudius. He is recognized as the first writer to Latinize entire books of fables, retelling in iambic metre the Greek prose Aesopic tales.

Quotes·Quotations by Phaedrus

Appearance

¶ Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaedrus_(fabulist)

Vivien Leigh (1913-1967)

Vivien Leigh (1913-1967)

Vivien Leigh, Lady Olivier (5 November 1913 – 8 July 1967) was an English actress. She won the Best Actress Academy Award for her portrayal of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), a role she also played on stage in London's West End, as well as for her portrayal of the southern belle Scarlett O'Hara, alongside Clark Gable, in the epic American Civil War drama Gone with the Wind.

She was a prolific stage performer, frequently in collaboration with her then-husband, Laurence Olivier, who directed her in several of her roles. During her 30-year stage career, she played roles ranging from the heroines of Noël Coward and George Bernard Shaw comedies to classic Shakespearean characters such as Ophelia, Cleopatra, Juliet and Lady Macbeth.

Lauded for her beauty, Leigh felt that it sometimes prevented her from being taken seriously as an actress. However, ill health proved to be her greatest obstacle. For much of her adult life Leigh suffered from bipolar disorder. She earned a reputation for being difficult to work with, and her career suffered periods of inactivity. She also suffered recurrent bouts of chronic tuberculosis, first diagnosed in the mid-1940s. Leigh and Olivier divorced in 1960, and she worked sporadically in film and theatre until her death from tuberculosis in 1967.

She is ranked 16th on AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars list, unveiled on 15 June 1999 by the American Film Institute.

Quotes·Quotation by Vivien Leigh

Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara from Gone with the Wind (1939)

¶ As God is my witness, as God is my witness they're not going to lick me. I'm going to live through this and when it's all over, I'll never be hungry again. No, nor any of my folk. If I have to lie, steal, cheat or kill. As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.

¶ I can't let him go. I can't. There must be some way to bring him back. Oh, I can't think about this now! I'll go crazy if I do! I'll think about it tomorrow. But I must think about it. I must think about it. What is there to do? What is there that matters? Tara! Home. I'll go home. And I'll think of some way to get him back. After all... tomorrow is another day!

Vivien Leigh as Blanche DuBois from A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

¶ Whoever you are, I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

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

Björn Andrésen

Björn Andrésen (1955- )

Björn Johan Andrésen (born 26 January 1955) is a Swedish actor and musician.

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@ I was just sixteen and Visconti and the team took me to a gay nightclub. Almost all the crew were gay. The waiters at the club made me feel very uncomfortable. They looked at me uncompromisingly as if I was a nice meaty dish. I knew I couldn't react. It would have been social suicide. But it was the first of many such encounters.
Quoted in Matt Seaton, "I feel used," The Guardian (2003-10-16)

@ My career is one of the few that started at the absolute top and then worked its way down. That was lonely.
Quoted in Matt Seaton, "I feel used," The Guardian (2003-10-16)

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B6rn_Andr%C3%A9sen

Vitruvius

Vitruvius

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (born ca. 80/70 BC?; died ca. 25 BC) was a Roman writer, architect and engineer, active in the 1st century BC.

@ Owing to this favor I need to have no fear of want to the end of my life, and being thus laid under obligation I began to write this work for you, because I saw that you have built and are now building extensively, and that in future also you will take care that our public and private buildings shall be worthy to go down to posterity by the side of your other splendid achievements. [Preface, Sec. 3 (dedication to Imperator Caesar)]

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

Victor Frankenstein (Frankenstein)

Victor Frankenstein (Frankenstein)

Victor Frankenstein is a fictional character, the protagonist of the 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, written by Mary Shelley. He is a scientist who, after studying chemical processes and the decay of living beings, gains an insight into the creation of life and gives life to his own creature (often referred to as Frankenstein's monster, or incorrectly as Frankenstein).

Film

Victor Frankenstein's first unofficial appearance on screen was in a 1910 film (produced by Thomas Edison) in which he seemed more a magician.

The character's first significant film appearance was in Universal Pictures' 1931 film adaptation, directed by James Whale. Here, the character is renamed Henry Frankenstein (a later film shows his tombstone bearing the name "Heinrich") and is played by British actor Colin Clive opposite Boris Karloff as the Creature. Clive reprised his role in the 1935 sequel, Bride of Frankenstein, which reunited Clive, Whale and Karloff, as well as first giving Frankenstein the official title of Baron. Although not present in the following sequels due to Clive's death in 1937, Henry made a cameo appearance in 1939's Son of Frankenstein, as an oil painting in the Frankenstein family library, and was the title character, in spite of having only a cameo, in The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942). It is in these films that the character became known as "Dr. Frankenstein," as the novel's character never finished his education.

Quotes·Quotations by Victor Frankenstein

Colin Clive as Henry Frankenstein from Frankenstein (1931)

¶ Look! It's moving. It's sha — it's... it's alive. It's alive... It's alive, it's moving, it's alive! It's alive, it's alive, it's alive! It's ALIVE!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Frankenstein
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Clive

Vito Corleone (The Godfather)

Vito Corleone (The Godfather)

Vito Andolini Corleone is a fictional character and the main character in Mario Puzo's novel The Godfather, as well as Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather trilogy, where he was portrayed by Marlon Brando in The Godfather and by Robert De Niro in The Godfather Part II. Premiere Magazine listed Vito Corleone as the greatest movie character in history. He was also selected as the 10th greatest movie character by Empire Magazine.

Quotes·Quotation by Vito Corleone

Marlon Brando as Don Vito Corleone from The Godfather

¶ I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.

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

Virgil

Virgil

Publius Vergilius Maro (October 15, 70 BC – September 21, 19 BC), known in English as Virgil or Vergil, was a Latin poet, the author of the Eclogues, the Georgics and the Aeneid, the last being an epic poem of twelve books that became the Roman Empire's national epic.

@ Sub tegmine fagi.
In the shade of a beech tree. [Eclogues (37 BC) Book I, line 1]

@ Parvis componere magna.
To compare great things with small. [Eclogues (37 BC) Book I, line 23]

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

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)

Adeline Virginia Woolf (/ˈwʊlf/; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer, and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century.

During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929), with its famous dictum, "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."

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

Virgil Tibbs (In the Heat of the Night)

Virgil Tibbs from In the Heat of the Night

Virgil Tibbs is a fictional character who is one of the two leading male characters in John Ball's 1965 novel In the Heat of the Night. He is also the protagonist in six sequels to that novel, the Oscar-winning 1967 film of the same name based on the original novel, the sequel films They Call Me MISTER Tibbs! (1970) and The Organization (1971), and the subsequent 1988-1995 television series derived from the film.

Quotes·Quotation by Sidney Poitier

Sidney Poitier as Virgil Tibbs from In the Heat of the Night (1967)

¶ They call me Mister Tibbs!

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

Peter De Vries

Peter De Vries

Quotes·Quotations by Peter De Vries

Religion·Faith

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@ It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.

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