Categorie: English proverbs and sayings in pictures

William Howard Gass: (July 30, 1924 – December 6, 2017). American novelist, short story writer, essayist, critic, and philosophy professor. He wrote three novels, three collections of short stories, a collection of novellas, and seven volumes of essays, three of which won National Book Critics Circle Award prizes and one of which, A Temple of… Lees verder William H. Gass

Outside the leaves on the trees constricted slightly; they were the deep done green of the beginning of autumn. It was a Sunday in September.

George Washington Cable: (October 12, 1844 – January 31, 1925) American novelist notable for the realism of his portrayals of Creole life in his native New Orleans, Louisiana. He has been called “the most important southern artist working in the late 19th century”, as well as “the first modern Southern writer.” For summer there, bear… Lees verder George Washington-Cabel

Dwight David Eisenhower: (Denison (Texas), 14 October 1890 – Washington, 28 March 1969). American general and politician. He was the commander-in-chief/General of the Army (five-star general) of Allied forces in Europe during World War II and the 34th president of the United States (1953-1961). If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed,… Lees verder Dwight D. Eisenhouwer

John Hoyer Updike: (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009). American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic. One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once (the others being Booth Tarkington, William Faulkner, and Colson Whitehead), Updike published more than twenty novels, more than a dozen… Lees verder John Updike

Aneurin Bevan: (Tredegar, Monmouthshire, Wales, 15 November 1897 – London, 6 July 1960). Better known as Nye Bevan, was a British socialist politician for the Labour Party, and founder of the British health system (National Health Service, ‘NHS’). Bevan was seen as Winston Churchill’s direct political opponent. If freedom is to be saved and enlarged,… Lees verder Aneurin Bevan

Djuna Barnes: (Cornwall-on-Hudson, Orange County in New York State, 12 June 1892 – New York, 18 June 1982). American writer of novels, short stories and plays, poet and journalist. She also made illustrations, initially in a style borrowed directly from Aubrey Beardsley, later in a more personal form. She also painted, but stopped doing so… Lees verder Djuna Barnes

Isaac Newton: (Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, 4 January 1643 – Kensington, 31 March 1727) (Julian calendar: 25 December 1642 – 20 March 1727). English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, official mint master and theologian. In mathematics, he is partly responsible for further developing the analysis of differential calculus and integral calculus (with Leibniz). He also developed Newton’s… Lees verder Isaac Newton

The unconscious constantly murmurs, and it is by listening to its murmurs that we hear its truth.

Henry Thomas Buckle: (London 24 November 1821 – 29 May 1862). English historian and the author of History of Civilisation. They who do not feel the darkness, will never look for the light. People can never be free if they are not raised to freedom.