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Today's Famous Birthday
Jan. 3rd, 2017 06:30 am
Today's Famous Birthday
Sep. 21st, 2016 04:04 pmToday's famous birthday person is a writer, unsurprisingly. I think most of you may have heard of him -- Stephen King.
Today's Famous Birthday
Jan. 3rd, 2015 09:09 am‘All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.’
ETA: http://historytoday.com/lynn-forest-hill/inspiration-tolkiens-ring
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Aug. 22nd, 2013 05:10 amDorothy Parker
~~Famous Quotes~~
1. This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
2. Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
3. I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.
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~~Famous Quotes~~
1. This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
2. Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
3. I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.
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Jun. 27th, 2013 08:36 amHelen Keller
Five Quotes:
1. It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
2, All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
3. The highest result of education is tolerance.
4. It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.
5. Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
Five Quotes:
1. It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
2, All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
3. The highest result of education is tolerance.
4. It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.
5. Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
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Apr. 23rd, 2013 10:42 amYou might just recognize this man...
10 Famous William Shakespeare Quotes
To be, or not to be: that is the question.
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ‘em.
If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
‘Tis better to be brief than tedious.
If music be the food of love, play on.
Love is a smoke and is made with the fume of sighs.
Love sought is good, but giv’n unsought is better.
The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.
Sonnet 18
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm’d;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm’d;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
More yakking and assorted movie clips under the cut; possibly a mild spoiler if you haven't seen "The Hollow Crown".
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10 Famous William Shakespeare Quotes
To be, or not to be: that is the question.
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ‘em.
If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
‘Tis better to be brief than tedious.
If music be the food of love, play on.
Love is a smoke and is made with the fume of sighs.
Love sought is good, but giv’n unsought is better.
The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.
Sonnet 18
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm’d;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm’d;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
More yakking and assorted movie clips under the cut; possibly a mild spoiler if you haven't seen "The Hollow Crown".
( Read more... )
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Jan. 3rd, 2013 03:36 pmJRR Tolkien, born 3 January 1892, died 2 September 1973
If you’re going to have a complicated story you must work to a map; otherwise you’ll never make a map of it afterwards.
If you’re going to have a complicated story you must work to a map; otherwise you’ll never make a map of it afterwards.
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Jan. 3rd, 2013 10:14 am
"A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities." -- JRR Tolkien
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