Tag "Work"
HADFIELD, J.A.
JAMES ARTHUR (J.A.) HADFIELD – English author, educator & psychologist; co-founder of the Tavistock Clinic – AUTHOR QUOTE PAGE
HAINSTOCK, Elizabeth
ELIZABETH G. HAINSTOCK – American author & educator – AUTHOR QUOTE PAGE
JAKOBOVITS, Immanuel
IMMANUEL JAKOBOVITS – Prussian-English religious leader, “Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth” – AUTHOR QUOTE PAGE
YOUSAFZI, Malala
MALALA YOUSAFZI- Pakistani education & human rights activist – AUTHOR QUOTE PAGE
NELSON, Willie
WILLIE NELSON – American country music singer-songwriter, actor & activist – AUTHOR QUOTE PAGE
KERR, Jean
CitationContextSource IDCitation “A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, any more than a good mortician wants to finish the job and then have the patient sit up on the table.” ~Jean Kerr, American author & playwright Mary, Mary (1960) Script, Act I; New York: Dramatists Play Service, Inc., 1965 revised ed., p. 33 Context Extended excerpt [Play dialogue - character ‘Oscar’ to ‘Bob’ & ‘Mary’]: “OSCAR. (Crosses U.R.C., eyeing them both.) Please don’t be embarrassed on my account. I’m delighted. I hate a friendly divorce. A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, any more than a good mortician wants to finish the job and
YOURCENAR, Marguerite
CitationContextSource LinkCitation “A man who reads, reflects, or plans belongs to a species rather than to his sex; in his best moments he rises even above the human.” ~Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian-French author Memoirs of Hadrian (1951) trans. Grace Frick, New York: Farrar, Straus & Young, 1955, p. 165; online via Open Library [free subscription service] openlibrary.org Context Extended excerpt [Fictional autobiography of the Roman Emperor Hadrian]: “I should have desired more: to see the human creature unadorned, alone with herself as she indeed must have been at least sometimes, in illness or after the death of a first-born child, or when a wrinkle began to show in her mirror. A
ZENO of Citium
CitationContextSource LinkCitation “Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue.” ~Zeno of Citium, Greek philosopher Cited by Diogenes Laërtius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers (3rd century) trans. Robert Drew (R.D.) Hicks, Book VII, chapter 1, no. 26, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972 [first published 1925]; online via Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University, www.perseus.tufts.edu Context Extended excerpt [Cited by Diogenes Laërtius, an ancient historian of Greek philosophy & philosophers. None of Zeno’s work survived to the modern era.]: “When he was asked why he, though so austere, relaxed at a drinking-party, he said, “Lupins too are bitter, but when they are soaked become sweet.” Hecato too in the second book
ZINN, Howard
CitationContextSource LinkCitation “History can suggest to us alternatives that we would never otherwise consider. It can both warn and inspire. It can warn us that it is possible for a whole nation to be brainwashed, for “enlightened” and “educated” people to commit genocide, for a “democratic” country to maintain slavery, for oppressed to turn into oppressors, for “socialism” to be tyrannical and “liberalism” to be imperialist, for whole peoples to be led to war like sheep. It can also show us that apparently powerless underlings can defeat their rulers, that men (for at least most moments of time) can live like brothers, that men can make incredible sacrifices on behalf
ZINSSER, William K.
Learn more about William Zinsser | Here are a few good places to start – William Zinsser – Official website includes a biography, photo gallery, book passages, links to articles, and music page: www.williamzinsserwriter.com/william-zinsser-music.html ‘On Memoir, Truth and ‘Writing Well’’ (13 April 2006) NPR “All Things Considered” conversation with Michelle Norris; link includes audio file, transcript & excerpt from Zinsser’s book How to Write a Memoir: www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5340618 ‘The Complete Zinsser on Friday’| The American Scholar collection of Zinsser essays: https://theamericanscholar.org/the-complete-zinsser-on-friday/#.V_XPL5MrKAY ‘Lives: William K. Zinsser ‘44’’ (3 February 2016) Princeton Alumni Weekly tribute by Sanda Sobieraj Westfall: https://paw.princeton.edu/article/lives-william-k-zinsser-%E2%80%9944 ‘My Stardust Memories’ (2 August 2010) The American Scholar – What’s it like to
RAND, Ayn
AYN RAND – Russian-American author, philosopher & screenwriter – AUTHOR QUOTE PAGE