Francis Bacon Quotes
Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse. - Francis Bacon
Mortimer Adler Quotes
In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names. - Mortimer Adler
George Burns Quotes
You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there. - George Burns
Henry David Thoreau Quotes
I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark. - Henry David Thoreau
Benjamin Franklin Quotes
I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. - Benjamin Franklin
Napoleon Hill Quotes
Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting. - Napoleon Hill
John Keats Quotes
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination. - John Keats
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having. - Mahatma Gandhi
Henry David Thoreau Quotes
Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still. - Henry David Thoreau
Mark Twain Quotes
If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later. - Mark Twain
Aristotle Quotes
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. - Aristotle
Jackie Mason Quotes
I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something. - Jackie Mason
Abraham Lincoln Quotes
I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. - Abraham Lincoln
George Orwell Quotes
To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others. - George Orwell
George Peppard Quotes
There's always the new wrinkle. One must keep one's eyes always open. - George Peppard
Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. - Alfred Lord Tennyson
Wallace Stevens Quotes
The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence. - Wallace Stevens
Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions. - Leonardo da Vinci
Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct. - Benjamin Disraeli
John Ruskin Quotes
Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them. - John Ruskin
Benjamin Franklin Quotes
When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue. - Benjamin Franklin
Stephen King Quotes
It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost. - Stephen King
Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being. - Benjamin Disraeli
Mark Twain Quotes
Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own. - Mark Twain
Henry David Thoreau Quotes
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. - Henry David Thoreau
Buddha Quotes
The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast. - Buddha
Mark Twain Quotes
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. - Mark Twain
Henry David Thoreau Quotes
There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. - Henry David Thoreau
William Shakespeare Quotes
O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side! - William Shakespeare
Mark Twain Quotes
When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old. - Mark Twain
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator. - Mahatma Gandhi
Voltaire Quotes
Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world. - Voltaire
Jane Austen Quotes
I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety. - Jane Austen
Alfred Hitchcock Biography
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| Studio publicity photo |
Over a career spanning more than half a century, Hitchcock fashioned for himself a distinctive and recognisable directorial style. He pioneered the use of a camera made to move in a way that mimics a person's gaze, forcing viewers to engage in a form of voyeurism. He framed shots to maximise anxiety, fear, or empathy, and used innovative film editing. His stories frequently feature fugitives on the run from the law alongside "icy blonde" female characters. Many of Hitchcock's films have twist endings and thrilling plots featuring depictions of violence, murder, and crime, although many of the mysteries function as decoys or "MacGuffins" meant only to serve thematic elements in the film and the extremely complex psychological examinations of the characters. Hitchcock's films also borrow many themes from psychoanalysis and feature strong sexual undertones. Through his cameo appearances in his own films, interviews, film trailers, and the television program Alfred Hitchcock Presents, he became a cultural icon.
Hitchcock directed more than fifty feature films in a career spanning six decades. Often regarded as the greatest British filmmaker, he came first in a 2007 poll of film critics in Britain's Daily Telegraph, which said: "Unquestionably the greatest filmmaker to emerge from these islands, Hitchcock did more than any director to shape modern cinema, which would be utterly different without him. His flair was for narrative, cruelly withholding crucial information (from his characters and from us) and engaging the emotions of the audience like no one else." The magazine MovieMaker has described him as the most influential filmmaker of all time, and he is widely regarded as one of cinema's most significant artists.
Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_hitchcock
Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art. - Leonardo da Vinci
Henry David Thoreau Quotes
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all. - Henry David Thoreau
George Orwell Quotes
I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man. - George Orwell
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all. - Mahatma Gandhi
Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture. - Alfred Hitchcock
William Shakespeare Quotes
There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them. - William Shakespeare
William Feather Quotes
A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it. - William Feather
William Shakespeare - Quotes
He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike. - William Shakespeare
Alfred Lord Tennyson Biography
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| 1869 Carbon print by Julia Margaret Cameron |
Tennyson excelled at penning short lyrics, such as "In the Valley of Cauteretz", "Break, Break, Break", "The Charge of the Light Brigade", "Tears, Idle Tears" and "Crossing the Bar". Much of his verse was based on classical mythological themes, such as Ulysses, although In Memoriam A.H.H. was written to commemorate his best friend Arthur Hallam, a fellow poet and fellow student at Trinity College, Cambridge, who was engaged to Tennyson's sister, but died from a brain haemorrhage before they could marry. Tennyson also wrote some notable blank verse including Idylls of the King, "Ulysses," and "Tithonus." During his career, Tennyson attempted drama, but his plays enjoyed little success.
A number of phrases from Tennyson's work have become commonplaces of the English language, including "Nature, red in tooth and claw", "'Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all", "Theirs not to reason why, / Theirs but to do and die", "My strength is as the strength of ten, / Because my heart is pure", "Knowledge comes, but Wisdom lingers", and "The old order changeth, yielding place to new". He is the ninth most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.
Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred,_Lord_Tennyson
Abraham Lincoln - Quotes
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. - Abraham Lincoln
Mark Twain - Quotes
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation. - Mark Twain
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Quotes
A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mahatma Gandhi - Quotes
Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain. - Mahatma Gandhi
George Burns - Quotes
I'm very pleased to be here. Let's face it, at my age I'm very pleased to be anywhere. - George Burns
George Carlin - Quotes
There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past. - George Carlin
Francis Bacon - Quotes
It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about. - Francis Bacon
George Carlin - Quotes
When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands. - George Carlin
John Adams - Quotes
There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. - John Adams
Alexander Pope Biography
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| Alexander Pope (c.1727), an English poet |
In 1700, his family moved to a small estate at Popeswood in Binfield, Berkshire, close to the royal Windsor Forest. This was due to strong anti-Catholic sentiment and a statute preventing Catholics from living within 10 miles (16 km) of either London or Westminster. Pope would later describe the countryside around the house in his poem Windsor Forest. Pope's formal education ended at this time, and from then on he mostly educated himself by reading the works of classical writers such as the satirists Horace and Juvenal, the epic poets Homer and Virgil, as well as English authors such as Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare and John Dryden. He also studied many languages and read works by English, French, Italian, Latin, and Greek poets. After five years of study, Pope came into contact with figures from the London literary society such as William Wycherley, William Congreve, Samuel Garth, William Trumbull, and William Walsh.
Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Pope
Benjamin Franklin - Quotes
Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out. - Benjamin Franklin
Francis Bacon - Quotes
Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out. - Francis Bacon
Mark Twain - Quotes
There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable. - Mark Twain
Benjamin Franklin - Quotes
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. - Benjamin Franklin
Alexander Pope - Quotes
Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies. - Alexander Pope
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