Categorie: English proverbs and sayings in pictures

Philippe Soupault: (2 August 1897 – 12 March 1990). French writer and poet, novelist, critic, and political activist. He was active in Dadaism and later was instrumental in founding the Surrealist movement with André Breton. Soupault initiated the periodical Littérature together with writers Breton and Louis Aragon in Paris in 1919, which, for many, marks… Lees verder Philippe Soupault

Werner Karl Heisenberg: (Würzburg, 5 December 1901 – Munich, 1 February 1976). German physicist and one of the founders of quantum mechanics. Heisenberg’s famous uncertainty relation originated from him. He also made important contributions to work on the hydrodynamics of turbulence, the atomic nucleus, ferromagnetism, cosmic rays and elementary particles and was the designer of… Lees verder Werner Heisenberg

Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck: (Kiel, 23 April 1858 – Göttingen, 4 October 1947). German physicist. For his development of quantum theory, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918. There is only one thing that is more expensive in the long run than education: no education.

Wertheimer, Emanuel: Born in Budapest on 10 May 1846. Attended secondary school there, studied philosophy and art history in Vienna, was very interested in music, but especially in literature. In 1880 he moved to Berlin. Features, criticism, drama, aphorisms. Main works: ‘Cromwell’, tragedy in five acts, Leipzig 1876; ‘Pensées et Maximes’, with a preface by… Lees verder Emanuel Wertheimer

Guido Pieter Theodorus Josephus Gezelle: (Bruges, 1 May 1830 – there, 27 November 1899) was a Flemish lyric poet and satirist, Roman Catholic priest, linguist, teacher, journalist and translator. He is known for his finely crafted poems about nature, his expressive use of language and his virtuoso language artistry. O ‘t ruischen van het ranke… Lees verder Guido Gezelle

Rohinton Mistry: (born 1952) Indian-born Canadianwriter. He has been the recipient of many awards including the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2012. Each of his first three novels was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His novels to date have been set in India, told from the perspective of Parsis, and explore themes of family… Lees verder Rohinton Mistry

Kurt Tucholsky: (Berlin, 9 January 1890 – Gothenburg, 21 December1935). German writer, columnist and journalist during the interwar period. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Kaspar Hauser, Peter Panter, Theobald Tiger and Ignaz Wrobel. Never underestimate the power of stupid people who agree.      

Werner Paul Walther Finck: (* 2 May 1902 in Görlitz; † 31 July 1978 in Munich). German cabaret artist, actor and writer. Where it goes too far, freedom only begins.

Johann Ludwig Uhland: (Tübingen, 26 April 1787 – there, 13 November 1862). German poet, philologist, literary scholar, lawyer and politician. For what he thinks is terror, and what he looks is wrath, and what he speaks is scourge, and what he writes is blood.

Klaus Heinrich Thomas Mann: (Munich, 18 November 1906 – Cannes, 21 May1949). German writer. He was a son of the famous writer and Nobel laureate Thomas Mann and his wife Katia Mann (born Pringsheim). The sleep we crave, the perfect sleep, is dreamless. We are haunted by dreams once we learn to remember and feel… Lees verder Klaus Mann