Categorie: English proverbs and sayings in pictures

Emmanuel Jal: (born Jal Jok 1 January 1980). South Sudanese-Canadian artist, actor, author, former child soldier, and political activist. His autobiography, War Child: A Child Soldier’s Story, was published in 2009. Music is powerful. It is the only thing that can speak into your mind, your heart and your soul without your permission.

Joanne Michèle Sylvie Harris: (born 3 July 1964). English-French author, best known for her 1999 novel Chocolat, which was adapted into a film of the same name. Some books you read. Some books you enjoy. But some books just swallow you up, heart and soul. Now is the month of Germinal in the Republican calendar—the… Lees verder Joanne Harris

Jostein Gaarder: (Oslo, 8 August 1952) Norwegian (children’s book) writer. His best-known book is The World of Sophie, which describes the history of Western philosophy in a light-hearted way. The most subversive people are those who ask questions.

William C. Brown: (May 22, 1916 – February 3, 1999). American electrical engineer who helped to invent the crossed-field amplifier in the 1950s and also pioneered microwave power transmission in the 1960s. True politeness is perfect ease and freedom. It simply consist of treating others as you love to treated yourself.

Pierre Schoendoerffer: (5 May 1928 – 14 March 2012). French film director, a screenwriter, a writer, a war reporter, a war cameraman, a renowned First Indochina War veteran, a cinema academician. He was president of the Académie des Beaux-Arts for 2001 and for 2007. Life is a massacre of dreams, a graveyard of dreams trampled… Lees verder Pierre Schoendoerffer

Stephen Vincent Benét: (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 22 July 1898 – New York, 13 March 1943). American poet and writer. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1929 and 1944. Freedom is the bread and the morning and the rising sun.

Janet (Jean) Frame: (Dunedin, 28 August 1924 – there, 29 January 2004). New Zealand writer. Thoughts, dreams, poems: A place; where no one comes; and which no one ever entered; since the creation of the world.

Axel Gustafsson Oxenstierna: (Fånö near Uppsala, 16 June 1583 – Stockholm, 28 August 1654). Swedish statesman. He was considered one of the most influential politicians in Europe by Cardinal de Richelieu. Love and friendship love each other like two brothers who have an inheritance to divide.

Milan Kundera: (Brno, Czech Republic, 1 April 1929 – Paris, France, 11 July 2023) Czech writer who moved to France in 1975. There he was also a lecturer in comparative literature at the University of Rennes. Dreaming is not only an act of communication; it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination,… Lees verder Milan Kundera

Theodorus Wilhelmus (Theo) Maassen: (Oegstgeest, 8 December 1966). Dutch cabaret artist, actor, presenter and director. His conferences are characterised by hard humour, high joke density and social criticism, with recurring themes: hypocrisy, commercialisation and conformism. I am for freedom of speech, but I am against personal security. Maybe then people will think just a little… Lees verder Theo Maassen