Categorie: English proverbs and sayings in pictures

Henri-Floris Jespers: (Etterbeek, 6 October 1944 – Antwerp, 9 April 2017) Flemish writer and editor. He was the grandson of expressionist painter Floris Jespers. The world is full of motionless objects waiting for an artist to blossom into dreams.

Thomas Lanier Williams III: (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983). Known by his pen name Tennessee Williams, was an American playwright and screenwriter. Along with contemporaries Eugene O’Neill and Arthur Miller, he is considered among the three foremost playwrights of 20th-century American drama. Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except… Lees verder Tennessee Williams

Marc Callewaert: Antwerp-based cultural journalist and art critic. (°1921-†2004). He wanted to make few popular art forms acceptable and until 1961 was one of the driving forces of G58, the avant-garde group from Antwerp that managed to turn the Hessenhuis into a buzzing cultural centre avant-la-lettre, a space for artists to explore their possibilities and… Lees verder Marc Callewaert

Mr. Constantius Bake: Pseudonym: Mr Constantijn Dutch lawyer, attorney and man of letters. 1856 – 1936   Niets is schadelijker voor het gezag dan misbruik van het gezag; niets is schadelijker voor de vrijheid dan misbruik van vrijheid.

Paul Brulat: (Born: Saint-Jean-de-Muzola, Ardèche, France, 26 May 1866 – Died: Le Chesnay, Yvelines, France, 30 June 1940). French writer and journalist. Our unhappiness often comes from the realisation of the dreams we have loved most dearly. Victorious individualism, driven to extremes, makes one long for absolute monarchy, because a freedom, from which only the… Lees verder Paul Brulat

Hunter Stockton Thompson: (Louisville, 18 July 1937 – Woody Creek, (Colorado), 20 February 2005) American journalist and writer who used the pseudonym Raoul Duke, among others. He is considered a representative of New Journalism; he himself called it gonzo journalism.     Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness… Lees verder Hunter Stockton Thompson

Wieslaw Leon Brudziński: Pseudonyms: Antoni Nurski, Górzanka; Oset; Widza; Polak Mały (ghost); Trzmiel. (born 20 February 1920 in Łódź, died 20 March 1996) Polish satirist, aphorist, journalist.   Big dreams: I don’t know any that don’t end at the crack of dawn.

Henri Louis Rémy Didon: (17 March 1840, in Le Touvet – 13 March 1900, in Toulouse) French Dominican friar. He was also a writer, educator, and a promoter of youth sports. His outsize personality often put him in conflict with his religious hierarchy. A friend is a pearl at the bottom of the sea.

Cornelis Buddingh’: Pseudonym(s) Jean de Boisson, Benjamin Morecombe (nickname: Kees) (Dordrecht, 7 August 1918 – there, 24 November 1985) was a Dutch poet, prose writer and translator. He also re-translated Leendert Burgersdijk’s 19th-century translation of William Shakespeare’s plays, as well as several other classical works. He owes his fame mainly to his poems, including ‘De… Lees verder Jean de Boisson

Charles Peter Wagner: (August 15, 1930 – October 21, 2016) American missionary, writer, teacher and founder of several Christian organizations. In his earlier years, Wagner was known as a key leader of the Church Growth Movement and later for his writings on spiritual warfare. If you love life, you cannot keep it at bay.