Categorie: English proverbs and sayings in pictures

Jane Smiley: (geboren op 26 september 1949). Amerikaanse schrijfster. Ze won de Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992 voor haar roman A Thousand Acres (1991). Leaving any bookstore is hard, especially on a day in August when the street outside burns and glares, and the books inside are cool and crisp to the touch. Leaving… Lees verder Jane Smiley

Denis George Mackail: (3 June 1892 – 4 August 1971). English fiction writer. His work was popular in his time, but much of his work has been forgotten. However, Greenery Street, a 1925 novel of early married life in upper middle-class London, was republished in 2002. Caught in the doldrums of August, we may have… Lees verder Denis Mackail

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different. The most important thing in communication is, hearing what isn’t said.

It’s never too late to start over. If you weren’t happy with yesterday, try something different today. Don’t stay stuck. Do better.

Madonna Louise Ciccone: ( Born August 16, 1958 ) American singer, songwriter, and actress. I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams. Everyone probably thinks that I’m a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I’d rather read a book. A… Lees verder Madonna

Mia Kirshner: (Toronto, 25 January 1975) is a Canadian actress. She has played one of the regular characters in the television series The L Word since 2004. Kirshner is a daughter of Jewish parents. Her father is a journalist with Canadian Jewish News. He met Kirshner’s mother, a Bulgarian-Jewish refugee, in Israel. Kirshner studied Russian… Lees verder Mia Kirshner

Freedom is never given, only gained.

How sociable the garden was. We ate and talked in the given light. The children put their toys on the grass. All the warm wakeful August night.

Theodora Sarah Orne Jewett: (September 3, 1849 – June 24, 1909). American novelist, short story writer and poet, best known for her local color works set along or near the southern coast of Maine. Jewett is recognized as an important practitioner of American literary regionalism. This was one of those perfect New England days in… Lees verder Sarah Orne Jewett

Max Heindel: (Aarhus, Denmark, 23 July 1865 – Oceanside (California), United States, 6 January 1919). Pseudonym for Carl Louis von Grasshoff. Founder of the Rosicrucian Fellowship in Oceanside, California. He founded this movement in 1909 after, according to his own account, he was initiated into the mysteries of the Rosicrucians in 1907 by an unknown… Lees verder Max Heindel