w/c 3.1.2022
"Fear not for the future, weep not for the past."
Percy Bysshe Shelley - English Romantic poet who was a radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views.
Shelley did not achieve fame during his lifetime, but recognition of his achievements in poetry grew steadily following his death.
(4 August 1792, Horsham - 8 July 1822)
w/c 10.1.2022
"Tomorrow, makin' a list of things to do.
And when I wake up, uh uh uh oh...gonna cross off a few"
Joseph Fidler Walsh - American rock singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.
(20 November 1947 - )
w/c 17.1.2022
"Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud."
Sophocles - Greek Tradgian Poet and playwright
(496 BC - 406 BC)
w/c 24.1.2022
"Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper"
Homage to Catalonia 1938.
Eric Arthur Blair a.k.a George Orwel - English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic.
(25 June 1903 - 21 January 1950)
w/c 31.1.2022
"Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone."
The Winners 1899
Joseph Rudyard Kipling - English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist.
Born in India his works include The Jungle Book, Kim, and many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King.
(30 December 1865 - 18 January 1936)
w/c 7.2.2022
“For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.”
Noam Chomsky - American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist.
Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics."
Also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science.
( 7 December 1928 - )
w/c 14.2.2022
"Words are loaded pistols."
Jean-Paul Sartre - playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist,
biographer, literary critic and key figure in the philosophy of Existentialism,
( 21 June 1905 - 15 April 1980)
w/c21.2.2022
"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him."
Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei a.k.a. Galileo - Italian astronomer, physicist, engineer and polymath.
(15 February 1564 - 8 January 1642)
