Quoteland's homepage has "Quotations by Author". It seems like every few days we get an email from someone telling us that a certain author is not dead, as we state in our "Click here for more information about" field. The two most recent corrections I made were for Vaclav Havel and Jonathan Kozol. We had them both listed "Alive: no" I've been making an effort to go through them, but the task is too much. So I'm asking for help. It's actually rather educational too, since I found myself learning some little tidbit. If anyone wants to help out, just post the bio info that is shown like the two examples I provided. Also, it would be extremely helpful to provide at least one quotation that isn't already there, and I will update the author info and also add the quote. This is actually kind of fun, since I found myself learning something every time I got bio info on someone. Thanks in adavance for anyone that helps out. Again, just post as a reply on this thread.
Though I am off posting on the main forums(ref:my hibernation), I would love to help out on this back end stuff, cause as you said, it would help me in learning a bit more about new authors. Moreover, I'm fairly good at researching, and it would also make me most happy to contribute in a more constructive manner towards a part of the site which does not require me posting on the main forums. That way I keep my word to myself too.
I also applaud you in taking this step towards bettering the site. This is exactly the kind of stuff I was talking about, when I asked you to raise the ante by encouraging members to be a part of a more progressive quoteland. This help you've asked of them, is one step nearer to increasing the dormant potential of quoteland.
Thank you once again.
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Coming to the topic at hand, I have a few queries:
-- How Do I know that an author I have worked on, is not already substantially researched for the biography page? -- Do I work on researching for authors that are already listed on the site, or am I allowed to add to the list? -- Also I was wondering, - when I looked into the Native American proverb Section, I saw that there was only one quote/proverb there in - Is it so because of lack of webspace, or is it something else. Because I remember having posted an extensive thread on "Native American Proverbs" on FavQ. -- So in essence we give just one quote along qwith the author, or we are allowed as many as we can, with citations of course?
The heart itself is only a small vessel, yet dragons are there, and lions, there are poisonous beasts, and all the treasures of evil, there are rough and uneven roads, there are precipes; but there too is God and the angels, life is there, and the Kingdom, there too is light, and there the apostles and heavenly cities, and treasures of grace. All things lie within that little space. -- Makarios the Great.
*~Come play with my children feel the peace and Scatter some joy.~* ~*Blowing out someone else's candle doesn't make your's burn any brighter.*~ Loneliness is not the absence of affection, but the absence of direction.
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Thanks so much for offering to help and requesting clarification. I should have known you would be the first to check in on this. Actually the task is very easy and simple. The best way would be to just begin at the beginning of the author list and see what information is given for the Click here for more information about feature. I just pointed and clicked on Rupert Murdoch to see what it said, and sure enough we say "Alive: no" So, the only "research" necessary is to see what Quoteland has for an author, and if the author is dead and all Quoteland says is "Alive: no" then I need birth and death dates, very short career statements like "carpenter" or "author" and then lastly nationality or birthplace. That's it. I don't need any biography information per se so there isn't much to do. Thanks again. In the case of Murdoch, I would need birth date, what he does or is famous for, and nationality. As many quotes as you can would be very cool. Suggesting adding an author, I am very receptive to that. I am adding authors almost every other day. I am going to look into a way to use all the American Indian proverbs in your post.
This one is tricky. Solider, mercenary, student of Socrates, known for his historical writing (but I don't think he's an historian, rather a commentator) 427 - 355 BC
Just checking to see if that's more or less what you were expecting...
Grant.
Stella Splendens December 22, 1985 - March 27, 2003 RIP ...Always.
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Rupert Murdoch, the son of a Presbyterian Minister from Scotland was born in Melbourne, Australia on March 11, 1931. He is Alive. He is an American Media Proprietor and Managing Director, News Corporation. In addition he is regarded as the single most politically influential media proprietor in the world and has recently become a powerful force in satellite television, the film industry and other forms of media.
Most recent information on him: On July 20, 2005, News Corp. bought Intermix Media Inc., who held MySpace.com and other popular networking-themed websites.
"In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved." -- Rupert Murdoch.
*~Come play with my children feel the peace and Scatter some joy.~* ~*Blowing out someone else's candle doesn't make your's burn any brighter.*~ Loneliness is not the absence of affection, but the absence of direction.
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Henry Louis "Hank" Aaron , born February 5, 1934 in Mobile, Alabama. As per this source, he is Alive. He is a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, is best known for setting the record for most home runs in a career (755), surpassing the previous mark of 714 by Babe Ruth.
His autobiography "I Had a Hammer" was published in 1990. He now works as an executive with Atlanta Braves organization.
"I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it." -- Henry Louis "Hank" Aaron
quote:Also, I've added almost all of the American Indian Proverbs from the post you mentioned.
Goody!!!
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much love, light and laughter, ananya.
*~Come play with my children feel the peace and Scatter some joy.~* ~*Blowing out someone else's candle doesn't make your's burn any brighter.*~ Loneliness is not the absence of affection, but the absence of direction.
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Birth date; 1941 Death date; Alive: yes Career; Businessman Nationality; American
We will not know unless we begin.
The best mirror is an old friend
Divide your movements into easy-to-do sections. If you fail, divide again.
To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is.
Beauty is being in harmony with what you are. ~The Orator, copyright 1977, Flight
Respect human talent, respond to genius, recognize reality, admire truth and beauty, realize the meaning of the rare flower Reason. ~The Orator, copyright 1977, Flight
Lin Yutang
Birth date; October 10, 1895 Death date; March 26, 1976 Alive: no Career; writer, translator, and editor Nationality; Chinese – American
How many of us are able to distinguish between the odors of noon and midnight, or of winter and summer, or of a windy spell and a still one? If man is so generally less happy in the cities than in the country, it is because all these variations and nuances of sight and smell and sound are less clearly marked and lost in the general monotony of gray walls and cement pavements. ~ The Importance of Living (1937) (p. 129)
The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous. ~ The Importance of Living (1937) (p. 162)
...by association with natures enormities, a man's heart may truly grow big also. There is a way of looking upon a landscape as a moving picture and being satisfied with nothing less big as a moving picture, a way of looking upon tropic clouds over the horizon as the backdrop of a stage and being satisfied with nothing less big as a backdrop, a way of looking upon the mountain forests as a private garden and being satisfied with nothing less as a private garden, a way of listening to the roaring waves as a concert and being satisfied with nothing less as a concert, and a way of looking upon the mountain breeze as an air-cooling system and being satisfied with nothing less as an air-cooling system. So do we become big, even as the earth and firmaments are big. Like the 'Big Man' described by Yuan Tsi (A.D. 210-263), one of China's first romanticists, we 'live in heaven and earth as our house.' ~ The Importance of Living (1937 (p. 282-283)
Art is both creation and recreation. Of the two ideas, I think art as recreation or as sheer play of the human spirit is more important. ~The Importance of Living (1937)
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
The wise man reads both books and life itself.
No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.
Steve Wozniak
Birth date; August 11, 1950 Death date; Alive: yes Career; Computer engineer, programmer, co-founder of Apple Computer (with Steve Jobs) Nationality; American
Some great people are leaders and others are more lucky, in the right place at the right time. I'd put myself in the latter category. ~Woz.org
Mickey Wright
Birth date; Feb. 14, 1935 Death date; Alive: Yes Career; Golfer Nationality; American
When I play my best golf, I feel as if I'm in a fog, standing back watching the earth in orbit with a golf club in my hands. ~Mickey Wright
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Birth date; 1894 Death date; 1967 Alive: No Career; Scholar, Teacher and Scout Leader Nationality; American
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Birth date; April 26, 1889 Death date; April 29, 1951 Alive: No Career; Engineer and Philosopher Nationality; Austrian
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes. ~Ludwig Wittgenstein, attributed
If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world. ~Ludwig Wittgenstein, attrributed
Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it. ~Ludwig Wittgenstein, attributed
Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination. ~Ludwig Wittgenstein, attributed
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world. ~Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)
Tobias Wolff
Birth date; June 19, 1945 in Birmingham, Alabama Death date; Alive: Yes Career; Writer and professor Nationality; American
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are. ~Tobias Wolff, 'In Pharaoh's Army'
There are very few professions in which people just sit down and think hard for five or six hours a day all by themselves. Of course it’s why you want to become a writer — because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it. ~Tobias Wolff
George E. Woodberry
Birth date; 1855 in Beverley, Mass Death date; 1930 Alive: No Career; poet, critic, and teacher Nationality; American
"Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better. ~George E. Woodberry
It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found. ~George E. Woodberry
Oh happy we, the first-born heirs of nature, For whom the Heavenly Sun delays his light! He by the sweets of every mortal creature Tempers eternal beauty to our sight; And by the glow upon love's earthly feature Maketh the path of our departure bright. ~George Edward Woodberry, Immortal Love, last verse, written 1900
Emile Zola
There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman. ~Emile Zola
I am an artist. I am here to live out loud. ~Emile Zola
Henny Youngman
The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret. ~Henry Youngman
Brigham Young
A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it. ~Brigham Young
There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source. ~Brigham Young
Xenophon
Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything. ~Xenophon
If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation. ~Xenophon
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Dean Acheson was born on April 11, 1893 in Middletown, Connecticut.
He died on October 12, 1971. He was the US Secretary of State under President Truman. - Source
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much love, light and laughter, ananya.
*~Come play with my children feel the peace and Scatter some joy.~* ~*Blowing out someone else's candle doesn't make your's burn any brighter.*~ Loneliness is not the absence of affection, but the absence of direction.
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Birth date; June 26, 1931 in Leicester, England Death date; Alive: Yes Career; Author Nationality; English
George Will
Birth date; May 4, 1941 in Champaign, Illinois, USA Death date; Alive: Yes Career; columnist, journalist, and author Nationality; American
Oscar Wilde
Birth date; October 16, 1854 Death date; November 30, 1900 Alive: No Career; playwright, novelist, poet, Nationality; Irish, lived in England from 1878
Alfred North Whitehead
Birth date; February 15, 1861 in Ramsgate, Kent, UK Death date; December 30, 1947 in Cambridge, MA, USA Alive: No Career; philosopher, physicist and mathematician Nationality; English
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Birth date; November 5, 1850 in Johnstown, Wisconsin, USA Death date; October 30, 1919 in Short Beach, Connecticut, USA Alive: No Career; Author and poet Nationality; American
Laugh and the world laughs with you, Weep, and you weep alone; For this brave old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own. ~Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Solitude, first lines
There is room in the halls of pleasure For a long and lordly train, But one by one we must all file on Through the narrow aisles of pain. ~Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Solitude, last lines
In the long run all love is paid by love, Though undervalued by the hosts of earth; The great eternal Government above Keeps strict account and will redeem its worth. Give thy love freely; do not count the cost; So beautiful a thing was never lost In the long run. ~Ella Wheeler Wilcox, In the Long Run
No fate could rob us of our own-- No circumstance can make it less; What time removes was but a loan, For what was ours we still possess. ~Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Possession
John Greenleaf Whittier
Birth date; December 17, 1807 in Haverhill, Massachusetts, USA Death date; September 7, 1892 in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, USA Alive: NO Career; Poet, Editor Nationality; American
No longer forward nor behind I look in hope or fear; But, grateful, take the good I find, The best of now and here. ~John Greenleaf Whittier, MY PSALM, 1859
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts. ~John Greenleaf Whittier
Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; Let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants a tree, is more than all. ~John Greenleaf Whittier, A Song of Harvest
But beauty seen is never lost, God’s colors all are fast; The glory of this sunset heaven Into my soul has passed….. ~John Greenleaf Whittier, Sunset on the Bearcamp, 1876
Thornton Wilder
Birth date; 17 April, 1897 in Madison, Wisconsin, USA Death date; December 7, 1975, in Hamden, Connecticut, USA Alive: No Career; playwright and novelist, winner of 1942 Pulitzer Prize Nationality; American
I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for. ~Thornton Wilder, attributed
I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island. ~Thornton Wilder, attributed
Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day. ~Thornton Wilder, attributed
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate. ~Thornton Wilder, from The Skin of Our Teeth, 1942, act I
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Thank you. Those are updated. As an example of the need for this, I received the following email today:
quote:Most distressed to read your site and hear Richard Bach is *NOT* alive??? When did this happen? I've heard nothing of this and as far as I know, he's still alive. Can you clear this up for me?
So, when I receive a notice like this, I get right to it, so that's fixed. Appreciate all the help I can get with this.
[This message was edited by thenostromo on 09-13-05 at 09:31 PM.]
“Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being.” -- Lord Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, (1834–1902)
*~Come play with my children feel the peace and Scatter some joy.~* ~*Blowing out someone else's candle doesn't make your's burn any brighter.*~ Loneliness is not the absence of affection, but the absence of direction.
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Birth date; May 31, 1819 on Long Island, New York Death date; March 26, 1892 Alive: No Career; poet, essayist, journalist, Nationality; American
Camerado, I give you my hand! I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself, will you come travel with me? Shall we stick by each other as long as we live? ~Walt Whitman, Song of the Open Road, Leaves of Grass, 1891
This dust was once the man, Gentle, plain, just and resolute, under whose cautious hand, Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age, Was saved the Union of these States. ~Walt Whitman, Memories of President Lincoln, This Dust Was Once the Man, Leaves of Grass, 1891
In the broad earth of ours, Amid the measureless grossness and the slag, Enclosed and safe within its central heart, Nestles the seed perfection. ~Walt Whitman, Song of the Universal, Leaves of Grass, 1891
Walter Winchill
Birth date; April 7, 1897 Death date; February 20, 1972 Alive: No Career; newspaper and radio commentator, invented the gossip column at the New York Evening Graphic Nationality; American
Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid. ~Walter Winchell
Tiger Woods
Birth date; 30 December 1975 in Cypress, California Death date; Alive: Yes Career; Golfer Nationality; American
I did envisage being this successful as a player, but not all the hysteria around it off the golf course. ~Tiger Woods
No matter how good you get you can always get better and that's the exciting part. ~Tiger Woods
Elijah Wood
Birth date; January 28, 1981 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Death date; Alive: Yes Career; Actor Nationality; American
I'm not a star!!! A star is nothing but a ball of gas!!! ~Elijah Wood
John Wooden
Birth date; October 14, 1910 near Martinsville, Indiana) Death date; Alive: Yes Career; Basketball player and Coach, inducted into the hall of fame for both Nationality; American
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. John Wooden
Jonathon Winters
Birth date; November 11, 1925 in Dayton, Ohio Death date; Alive: Yes Career; comedic actor Nationality; American
Sloan Wilson
Birth date; May 08, 1920 - Westport, CT . Born: Death date; May 25, 2003, at Colonial Beach, Va., Alive: No Career; novelist, ” The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit" and “A Summer Place” Nationality; American
Bill Wilson
Birth date; 26 November 1895 in East Dorset, Vermont Death date; 24 January 1971 in Miami, Florida. Alive: No Career; co-founder of the mutual-help group Alcoholics Anonymous. Nationality; American
The temporary good is enemy to the permanent best ~Bill Wilson
William Carlos Williams
Birth date; September 17, 1883 in Rutherford, New Jersey Death date; March 4, 1963 Alive: No Career; Poet, associated with Modernism .and concerned with developing poetry in a recognizably American idiom, doctor, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1963 Nationality; American
Their time past, pulled down cracked and flung to the fire go up in a roar
All recognition lost, burnt clean clean in the flame, the green dispersed, a living red, flame red, red as blood wakes on the ash-- ~William Carlos Williams, Burning the Christmas Greens, lines 1-6
Afraid lest he be caught up in a net of words, tripped up, bewildered and so defeated—thrown aside—a man hesitates to write down his innermost convictions. ~William Carlos Williams, Journal entry for July 7, 1929. The Embodiment Of Knowledge (1974)
Practical to the end, it is the poem of his existence that triumphed finally; ~William Carlos Williams, The Sparrow, lines 118-122, The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams; Vol. 2, 1909-1939. A. Walton Litz and Christopher MacGowan, eds. (1986) New Directions.
Maurice Wilkes
Birth date; June 26, 1913 in Dudley, Staffordshire, England Death date; Alive: Yes Career; computer scientist, credited with several important developments in computing, Nationality; British
Johann Joachim Winckelmann
Unity and simplicity are the two true sources of beauty ~Johann Joachim Winckelmann
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Birth date; October 3, 1900 in Asheville, North Carolina Death date; September 15, 1938 in Baltimore, Maryland Alive: No Career; novelist Nationality; American
At that instant he saw, in one blaze of light, an image of unutterable conviction, the reason why the artist works and lives and has his being--the reward he seeks--the only reward he really cares about, without which there is nothing. It is to snare the spirits of mankind in nets of magic, to make his life prevail through his creation, to wreak the vision of his life, the rude and painful substance of his own experience, into the congruence of blazing and enchanted images that are themselves the core of life, the essential pattern whence all other things proceed, the kernel of eternity. ~Thomas Wolfe, Of Time and the River, published 1935.
All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken. ~ Thomas Wolfe
Theodore White
Birth date; May 6, 1915 in Boston, Massachusetts Death date; May 15, 1986 in New York City, New York. Alive: No Career; Political Journalist, Historian, and Novelist, winner of 1962 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction Nationality; American
He is like a good prewar house-solidly built. They don't build them that way anymore. He's also been repainted several times. ~Theodore White
Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them — this is of the essence of leadership. ~ Theodore H. White, The Making of the President, 1960
Minor White
Birth date; July 9, 1908 Death date; June 24, 1976 Alive: No Career; Photographer Nationality; American
Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts. ~Minor White
A very receptive state of mind... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it. ~Minor White
Hugh White
Birth date; October 30, 1773 Death date; April 10, 1840 Alive: No Career; politician representing Tennessee 1825-1840 Nationality; American
E B White
Birth date; July 11, 1899 in Mount Vernon, New York Death date; October 1, 1985 at his farm in North Brooklin, Maine Alive: No Career; essayist, author, prose stylist, author of “Charlotte’s web”, “Stuart Little” and “The Trumpet of the Swan” Nationality; American
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. ~E.B. White, Essays of E.B. White
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind. ~E. B. White, Some Remarks on Humor, introduction
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time. ~ E. B. White, New Yorker, July 3, 1944
William Westmoreland
Birth date; March 26, 1914, Spartanburg County, South Carolina Death date; Alive: Yes Career; U.S. Army General, US Army Chief of Staff from 1968 to 1972 Nationality; American
War is fear cloaked in courage. ~General William Westmoreland
Mae West
Birth date; August 17, 1893 in Brooklyn, New York Death date; November 22, 1980 in Hollywood Alive: No Career; actress, playwright, and sex symbol Nationality; American
Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie. ~Mae West (as Maudie Triplett), Response to "Goodness! What a lovely diamond!" in the film Night After Night (1932). She later used “Goodness had nothing to do with It” for the title of her autobiography (1953).
John Wesley
Birth date; June 17, 1703 in Epworth, near Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England Death date; March 2, 1791 in London Alive: No Career; Christian theologian who founded of the Methodist movement of Protestantism Nationality; English
Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame, if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago. ~ John Wesley
Franz Werfel
Birth date; September 10, 1890 in Prague Death date; August 26, 1945 in Los Angeles Alive: No Career; novelist, playwright, and poet Nationality; Austrian-Czech
Between too early and too late, there is never more than a moment. ~Franz Werfel
False ideals cannot be shattered by criticism. Right ideals must take up the battle against them. ~Franz Werfel, "Between Heaven and Earth"
Joseph Weizenbaum
Birth date; January 8, 1923 in Berlin, Germany Death date; Alive: Yes Career; computer scientist Nationality; German
I think that children have a power to imagine that is almost magical when compared to the adult imagination, and this is something irrevocable that a child loses when he or she becomes bound by logic. We adults continue to have our children’s power of imagination only in our dreams... Of course it’s awfully necessary that children not run their entire lives on the basis of such thinking; they do need to learn how to think logically. But the world will soon teach that to them -and in overabundance. I think we should do everything we can to make it possible for children to hang onto the power to imagine in the almost magical sense for as long as possible. ~Joseph Weizenbaum
Margaret Weis
Birth date; March 16, 1948 in Independence, Missouri, United States Death date; Alive: Yes Career; Fantasy novelist, creator of “Dragonlance” game world Nationality; American
Is it eradicating evil? Or are we like children, left alone in the house at night, who light candle after candle to keep away the darkness. We don’t see that the darkness has a purpose – thought we may not understand it – and so, in our terror, we end up burning down the house! ~Margaret Weis, Time of the Twins
You choose to go voluntarily into the fire. The blaze might well destroy you. But if you survive, every blow of the hammer will serve to shape your being. Every drop of water wrung from you will temper and strengthen your soul ~Margaret Weis , Soulforge
Simone Weil
Birth date; February 3, 1909 in Paris, France Death date; August 24, 1943 in Ashford, Kent, England Alive: No Career; a philosopher and mystic Nationality; French
John Webster
Birth date; c. 1578 Death date; c. 1634 Alive: No Career; Playwright His tragedies include The White Devil, and The Duchess of Malfi Nationality; English
Let guilty men remember, their black deeds Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds. ~John Webster, The White Devil; (act V, sc. 6)
Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear; As seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near. ~John Webster, White Devil (act V, sc. 6)
Vain ambition of kings Who seek by trophies and dead things To leave a living name behind, And weave but nets to catch the wind. ~John Webster, Vanitas Vanitatum
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Birth date; February 9, 1944 in Eatonton, Georgia, USA Death date; Alive: Yes Career; Author, winner of the Pulitzer prize with ”The Color Purple” Nationality; American
And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see: or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read. ~Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens, page 240
For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged. ~Alice Walker
Herschel Walker
Birth date; March 3, 1962 in Wrightsville, Georgia Death date; Alive: Yes Career; American football player Nationality; American
My God given talent is my ability to stick with training longer than anybody else. ~Herschel Walker
Larry Wall
Birth date; September 27, 1954 Death date; Alive: Yes Career; Programmer, author, most widely known for his creation of the Perl computer language in 1987 Nationality; American
Anyway, there's plenty of room for doubt. It might seem easy enough, but computer language design is just like a stroll in the park.
Jurassic Park, that is. ~ Larry Wall
William Ross Wallace
Birth date; 1819 in Lexington, Kentucky, USA Death date; May 5, 1881, in New York City, USA Alive: No Career; Lawyer and poet Nationality; American
A sound like a sound of thunder rolled, And the heart of a nation stirred— For the bell of Freedom, at midnight tolled, Through a mighty land and was heard. And the chime still rung From its iron tongue Steadily swaying to and fro; And to some it came Like a breath of flame— And to some a sound of wo. ~ William Ross Wallace, “The Liberty Bell”, Meditations in America, 1851.
Horace Walpole
Birth date; September 24, 1717 in London Death date; March 2, 1797 Alive: No Career; politician and writer Nationality; English
Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel. ~Horace Walpole, Letter to Sir Horace Mann, 1770.
Michael Walzer
Birth date; 13 March 1935 Death date; Alive: Yes Career; Philosopher and professor Nationality; American
William Arthur Ward
Birth date; 1921 Death date; 1997 Alive: No Career; Author, editor, pastor and teacher Nationality; American
The pessimist complains about the wind, the optimist expects it to change, the realist adjusts the sails. ~William Arthur Ward
George Washington
Birth date; February 22, 1732 in Province of Virginia, USA Death date; December 14, 1799 Alive: No Career; planter, political figure, and military leader Nationality; American
Charles Dudley Warner
Birth date; September 12, in Plainfield, Massachusetts, USA Death date; October 20, 1900 in Hartford, Ct, USA Alive: No Career; essayist and novelist Nationality; American
Booker T. Washington
Birth date; April 5, 1856 Death date; November 15, 1915 Alive: No Career; educator and author. Nationality; African American
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. Out of the hard and unusual struggle through which he is compelled to pass, he gets a strength, a confidence, that one misses whose pathway is comparatively smooth by reason of birth and race. ~Booker T. Washington
I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. ~Booker T. Washington.
Thomas J. Watson
Birth date; February 17, 1874 in Campbell, New York USA Death date; June 19, 1956 in New York, USA Alive: No Career; Salesman, considered to be the founder of International Business Machines (IBM). Nationality; American
The way to succeed is to double your error rate. ~Thomas J. Watson
If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good. ~Thomas J. Watson
Life itself is a matter of salesmanship. ~ Thomas J. Watson in Men–Minutes–Money, a Collection of Excerpts from Talks
Archibald Wavell
Birth date; May 5, 1883 in Colchester, England Death date; May 24, 1950 in England Alive: No Career; General, Commander of British Army forces in WWII Nationality; English
Alec Waugh
Birth date; July 8 1898 in London, England Death date; September 3 1981 Alive: No Career; Novelist Nationality; British
Isaac Watts
Birth date; July 17, 1674 in Southampton England Death date; November 25, 1748 in Stoke Newington Alive: No Career; Hymn-writer, essayist, author Nationality; English
Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting. ~Isaac Watts
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