«We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.»

Jonathan Swift *

* (Dublin, Ireland 30-Nov-1667 / 19-Oct-1745), writer and satirist.

«History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.»

George Santayana*

* (Madrid, Spain 16-Dec-1863 / Rome, Italy 26-Sep-1952).
Philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist. Santayana, like many philosophers since the late nineteenth century, was a naturalist (that is, he denied the existence of supernatural beings, like gods and ghosts), but he found profound meaning in literary writings and in religious ideas and texts (which he regarded as fundamentally akin to literature).

«Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.»

Rabindranath Tagore *

* (Calcutta, India, 7-May-1861 / 7-Aug-1941) Philosopher and Poet, he won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1913. He's the author of Bangladesh's Anthem.

«I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.»

Martin Luther King, Jr. *

*(Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. 15-Jan-1929 / Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. 4-Apr-1968).
Baptist minister and African American civil rights activist, he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.

«I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.»

Albert Einstein *

* (Ulm, Germany 14-Mar-1879 / Princeton, New Jersey, U.S. 18-Apr-1955).
Physicist and mathematician who proposed the theory of relativity. He won the The Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921.

«When I can look Life in the eyes,
Grown calm and very coldly wise,
Life will have given me the Truth,
And taken in exchange - my youth.»

Sara Teasdale *

* (St. Louis, Missouri 8-Aug-1884 / New York, NY 29-Jan-1933).
Lyrical poet, in 1918 she won the Columbia University Poetry Society Prize (the forerunner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry).

«The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.»

St. Augustine of Hippo *

* (Tagaste, North Africa 354 / Hippo, Algeria 430).
Catholic saint, bishop of Hippo, one of the Latin Fathers.

«The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.»

Winston Churchill *

* (Oxfordshire, England 30-Nov-1874 / London 24-Jan-1965).
British PM during the World War II. He received, in 1953, The Nobel Prize in Literature.

«Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.»

G. Bernard Shaw *

* (Dublin, Ireland 26-Jul-1856 / Hertfordshire, England 2-Nov-1950).
Playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics.
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 1925 and the Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay in 1938, for "Pygmalion".

«It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.»

Frederick Buechner *

*(New York, NY, U.S. 11-Jul-1926).
Author of more than thirty published books thus far, which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.

«Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.»

George Eliot *


* (Warwickshire, England 22-Nov-1819 / London, England 22-Dec-1880).
Novelist who used many of her real-life experiences in her books, which she wrote under a man's name in order to improve her chances of publication.

«I'll be floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee.»

Muhammad Ali*


*(Louisville, Kentucky 17-Jan-1942) world's greatest heavyweight boxer.

«You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.»

Art Buchwald *

* (Mount Vernon, New York, U.S. 20-Oct-1925).
Film writer and actor, won the Pulitzer Prize for outstanding commentary in 1982.

«When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.»

Brian Aldiss *

* (East Dereham, England 18-Aug-1925) science fiction writer, anthologist, and critic.

«I'm fat, but I'm thin inside; there's a thin man inside every fat man.»

George Orwell *

* (Motihari, India 25-Jun-1903 / London, England 21-Jan-1950).
British author best known for his allegorical political novels, "Animal Farm" and "Nineteen Eighty-Four".

«What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.»

Pedro Calderon de la Barca*

* (Madrid, Spain 17-Jan-1600 / 25-May-1681).
Dramatist, poet and writer of the Spanish Golden Age. During certain periods of his life he was also a soldier and a Roman Catholic priest.

«All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.»

Cyril Connolly *

* (Coventry, Warwickshire, England 10-Sep-1903 / London, England 26-Nov-1974.
Literary critic and writer. He was the editor of the influential literary magazine Horizon (1940–49) and wrote Enemies of Promise (1938), which combined literary criticism with an autobiographical exploration of why he failed to become the successful author of fiction that he had aspired to be in his youth.

«Oh, how I love the Earth and everything in it, life and death. And men. One can think of nothing finer, or nicer, than men … their wars, their concentration camps, their justice.»

Marcel Aymé *

* (Joigny, France 29-Mar-1902 / Paris 14-Oct-1967).
Novelist, humourist and children's writer.

«There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal. While the first is the condition of a free society, the second means as DeTocqueville describes it, a new form of servitude.»

Friedrich August von Hayek *

* (Vienna, Austria 8-May-1899 / Freiburg, Germany 23-Mar-1992)
The most eminent of the modern Austrian economists, won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1974.

«I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and no great freedom that has not done it, in the beginning.»

George Eliot

«The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor's shortcomings as he is of his own.»

Eric Hoffer *

* (New York, NY, U.S. 1902 / 1983) "The longshoreman philosopher" was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1983.

«I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.»

Mohandas "Mahatma" Gandhi *

*(Porbandar, British Indian Empire 2-Oct-1869 / New Delhi, India 30-Jan-1948).
He was the leader of Indian independence movement. Employing nonviolent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. His birthday is commemorated as Gandhi Jayanti, a national holiday, and world-wide as the International Day of Nonviolence.

«Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and shorts for the last four years?»

Bart Simpson *

* (Bartholemew Jojo Simpson, Springfield, Illinois, U.S. 1-Apr-1980)

«The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.»

Eleanor Roosevelt *

* (New York, NY, U.S. 11-Oct-1884 / 7-Nov-1962)
Human rights activist and First Lady of the U. S.

«Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.»

Oscar Wilde *

* (Dublin, Ireland 16-Oct-1854 / Paris, France 30-Nov-1900).
Poet and dramatist whose reputation rests on his comic masterpieces "Lady Windermere's Fan" and "The Importance of Being Earnest".

«My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.»

Ellen DeGeneres *

* (Metairie, Louisiana, U.S. 26-Jan-1958).
Comedian, television host, actress, writer, and television producer. She was the star in the popular sitcom "Ellen" from 1994 to 1998, and has hosted her syndicated talk show "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" since 2003.

«It takes a long time to become young.»

Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Crispin Crispiniano de la Santisima Trinidad Ruiz Blasco Picasso y Lopez*

* (Malaga, Spain 25-Oct-1881 / Mougins, France 8-Apr-1973).
Painter, most famous as the founder, along with Georges Braque, of Cubism.

«If God does not exist, one will lose nothing by believing in him, while if he does exist, one will lose everything by not believing. »

Blaise Pascal *

* (Clermont-Ferrand, France 19-Jun-1623 / Paris 19-Aug-1662).
Mathematician, physicist and religious philosopher. Among his contributions to the natural sciences are construction of mechanical calculators, considerations on probability theory, studies of fluids, and clarification of concepts such as pressure and vacuum. Following a profound religious experience in 1654, Pascal abandoned mathematics and physics for philosophy and theology.

«I have as much privacy as a goldfish in a bowl.»

Princess Margaret *

* (Glamis Castle, Scotland 21-August-1930 / London, England 9-Feb-2002) the younger sister of Queen Elizabeth II and for a brief time was second in line to the British throne.

«What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.»

Pearl Bailey *

* (Newport News, Virginia, U.S. 29-Mar-1918 / Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. 17-Aug-1990). Actress and singer. She won a Tony Award for the title role in the all-black production of Hello, Dolly! in 1968. In 1986, she won a Daytime Emmy award for her performance as a fairy godmother in the ABC Afterschool Special, Cindy Eller: A Modern Fairy Tale.

«If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.»

Mother Teresa*

* (Skopje, Kosovo Vilayet, Ottoman Empire 26-Aug-1910 / Calcutta, West Bengal, India 5-Sep-1997).
Roman Catholic Religious Sister and missionary who lived most of her life in India. Mother Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic religious congregation, which in 2012 consisted of over 4500 sisters and is active in 133 countries.
A controversial figure both during her life and after her death, Mother Teresa was the recipient of numerous honours including the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize. In 2003, she was beatified as "Blessed Teresa of Calcutta".

«Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.»

G. Bernard Shaw

«To love another person is to see the face of God»

Victor Hugo *

* (Besançon, France 26-Feb-1802 / Paris, France 22-May-1885).
One of the most powerful and popular authors of 19th century France, and a champion of republicanism exiled during the reign of Napoleon III and returned in 1870.

«The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.»

Thomas Jefferson *

* (Albermarle County, Virginia 13-Apr-1743 / Monticello, Albemarle County, Virginia, U.S. 4-Jul-1826 On the independence 50th anniversary).
Was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence, and a source of many other contributions to American culture. After an electoral tie, Jefferson was elected President and Burr Vice President by the United States House of Representatives. Jefferson was the only Vice President elected to the Presidency and serve two full terms.
Coincidentally, both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, the only signers of the Declaration of Independence later to serve as Presidents of the United States, died on the same day: July 4, 1826, which was the 50th anniversary of the Declaration.

«Some stories are trues that never happened.»

Elie Wiesel*

*(Sighetu Marmatiei, Romania 30-Sep-1928).
Romanian-born Jewish-American professor and political activist. He is the author of 57 books. Nobel Peace Prize in 1986.

«What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?»

Jacqueline Kennedy *

* (New York, NY, U.S. 28-Jul-1929 / 19-May-1994).
First Lady, wife of John F. Kennedy, the President of the United States. For the final two decades of her life, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis had a career as a book editor.

«I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.»

Elizabeth Barrett Browning *

* (Durham, England 6-Mar-1806 / 29-Jun-1861).
The most respected female poet of the Victorian era. Her most famous work is "Sonnets from the Portuguese".

«It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.»

Jiddu Krishnamurti *

* (Madanapalle, India 11-May-1895 / 17-Feb-1986) He did not expound any philosophy or religion, but spoke of the everyday matters that concern all human beings—the problems of living in modern society with violence and corruption, the individual's search for meaning, security and happiness; and our need to free ourselves from the inner burdens of fear, anger, hurt and sorrow. He talked of the need to have a deeply meditative and religious quality in our daily life.

«There is more to life than increasing its speed.»

Mohandas Gandhi

«Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe and aren't even aware of.»

Ellen Goodman *

* (Newton, Massachusetts, U. S. 11-Apr-1941)
Journalist who wrote about issues that spanned the range from personal to political, she won a Pulitzer Prize for commentary, in 1980. She is noted for being one of the first women in the United States to discuss women's rights openly.

«The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.»

Mark Twain *

* (Florida, Missouri, U.S. 30-Nov-1835 / Redding, Connecticut, U.S. 21-Apr-1910).
Writer, journalist and humorist, who won a worldwide audience for his stories of the youthful adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.

«I was walking across a bridge one day, and I saw a man standing on the edge, about to jump off. So I ran over and said 'Stop! don't do it!' 'Why shouldn't I?' he said. I said, 'Well, there's so much to live for!' He said, 'Like what?' I said, 'Well... are you religious or atheist?' He said, 'Religious.' I said, 'Me too! Are you Christian or Buddhist?' He said, 'Christian.' I said, 'Me too! Are you Catholic or Protestant?' He said, 'Protestant.' I said, 'Me too! Are you Episcopalian or Baptist?' He said, 'Baptist!' I said, 'Wow! Me too! Are you Baptist church of god or Baptist church of the lord?' He said, 'Baptist church of god!' I said, 'Me too! Are you original Baptist church of god, or are you reformed Baptist church of god?' He said, 'Reformed Baptist church of god!' I said, 'Me too! Are you reformed Baptist church of god, reformation of 1879, or reformed Baptist church of god, reformation of 1915?' He said, 'Reformed Baptist church of god, reformation of 1915!' I said, 'Die, heretic scum,' and pushed him off.»

Emo Philips*

* (Downers Grove, Illinois, U.S. 7-Feb-1956).
One of the strangest (in looks, presentation, and attitude) of the current crop of new comics.

«Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.»

Jorge Luis Borges *

* (Buenos Aires, Argentina 24-Aug-1899 / Geneva, Switzerland 14-Jun-1986).
Poet, essayist, and short-story writer, whose tales of fantasy and dreamworlds are classics of the 20th-century world literature.

«Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.»

Jackie Robinson*

*Cairo, Georgia, U.S. 31-Jan-1919 / Stamford, Connecticut, U.S. 24–Oct-1972).
American baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the modern era.

«Such is the human race. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah... didn't miss the boat.»

Mark Twain

«The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.»

Albert Einstein

«Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.»

Frederick the Great *

* (Berlin, Germany 24-Jan-1712 / Potsdam 17-Aug-1786).
Was the Hohenzollern king of Prussia, from 1740-86.

«Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.»

Buddha *


* (Kapilavastu, India c.563 / c.483 BC).
The founder of Buddhism, one of the great religions of the world. He was the son of a wealthy ruler of a kingdom near Nepal, in Asia. Many miracles are said to have herald his birth. When Siddhartha realized the misery of the world, he left his palace, his father, his wife and his children, and wandered for seven years seeking the truth.

«Faith... Must be enforced by reason...When faith becomes blind it dies.»

Mohandas Gandhi

«Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?»

Holly Near *

* (Ukiah, California 1949) promoted a variety of left-wing political causes with music that touched on folk, rock, and the musical theater, starting in the early 1970s.

«Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.»

G. Bernard Shaw

«To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.»

Jose Ortega y Gasset *

* (Madrid, Spain 9-May-1883 / 18-Oct-1955).
Liberal philosopher and essayist working during the first half of the 20th century while Spain oscillated between monarchy, republicanism and dictatorship. His philosophy has been characterized as a "philosophy of life" which "comprised a long-hidden beginning in a pragmatist metaphysics.

«In music the passions enjoy themselves.»

Friedrich Nietzsche*

* (Rocken, Prussia 15-Oct-1844 / Weimar, Germany 25-Aug-1900).
Classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture, who became one of the most influential of all modern thinkers.

«Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.»

George Eliot

«On my way here I passed a local cinema and it turned out you were expecting me after all, for the billboards read: The Mummy Returns.»

Margaret Thatcher *

* (Grantham, England 13-Oct-1925 / London, England 8-Apr-2013).
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and the Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the longest-serving British Prime Minister of the 20th century and is the only woman to have held the office. A Soviet journalist called her the "Iron Lady", a nickname that became associated with her uncompromising politics and leadership style.

«With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.»

Eric Hoffer

«Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?»

Leonardo da Vinci *

* (Vinci, Republic of Florence 15-Apr-1452 / Amboise, France 2-May-1519)
Architect, inventor, engineer, sculptor and painter, he can be seen as the archetype of the Renaissance Man.

«Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.»

Jean Cocteau *

* (Maisons-Laffitte, France 5-Jul-1889 / Milly-la-Foret 11-Oct-1963).
One of the most multi-talented artists of the 20th century. In addition to being a director, he was a poet, novelist, painter, playwright, set designer, and actor.

«If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.»

Dwight D. Eisenhower *

* (Denison, Texas. U.S. 14-Oct-1890 / 28-Mar-1969 Washington, D.C., U.S.).
34th (1953-1961) President of the United States, supreme commander of Allied Forces, during the latter part of World War II, and the General of the United States Army.

«The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.»

William Orville Douglas *

* (Maine, Minnesota, U.S. 16-Oct-1898 / 19-Jan-1980).
One of the most liberal and activist justices of the U.S. Supreme Court and a vigorous and controversial writer. W. O. Douglas holds the record for the longest continuous service on his nation's most powerful Court: 36 years and 7 months.

«In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.»

Robert Green Ingersoll *

* (Dresden, New York, U.S. 11-Aug-1833 / Dobbs Ferry-on-Hudson, NY, U.S. 21-Jul-1899).
Political leader and orator, noted for his broad range of culture and his defense of atheism.

«I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.»

Heinrich Heine *

* (Düsseldorf, Germany 13-Dec-1797 / Paris, France 17-Feb-1856).
Poet best known for his lyric poetry, much of which was set to music by lieder composers, most notably Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann.

«He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.»

Plato*

* (Athens, Greece 428 to 423 BC / 348 or 347 BC).
Philosopher, as well as mathematician and an influential figure in philosophy, central in Western philosophy. He was Socrates' student, and founded the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Along with Socrates and his most famous student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the foundations of Western philosophy and science.

«For it is in giving that we receive.»

Saint Francis of Assisi *

* (Died in October 3, 1226, Assisi, Italy, where he was born probably in 1181 or 1182).
He was an Italian Catholic friar and preacher. He founded the men's Order of Friars Minor, the women’s Order of St. Clare, and the Third Order of Saint Francis. Though he was never ordained to the Catholic priesthood, Francis is one of the most venerated religious figures in history.

«Photography is truth.»

Jean-Luc Godard*

* (Paris, France 3-Dec-1930) French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic. He is often identified with the 1960s French film movement La Nouvelle Vague, or "New Wave". Among many other prizes, received the Academy Honorary Award, in 2010 and the European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award, in 2007
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«Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.»

Michael Leunig*`

*(Melbourne, Australia 2-Jun-1945).
Cartoonist, poet and cultural commentator.

«Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.»

Bertrand Russell*

* (Trellech, Monmouthshire, Wales 18-May-1872 / Penrhyndeudraeth, Wales 2-Feb-1970).
British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, social critic and political activist. At various points in his life he considered himself a liberal, a socialist, and a pacifist, but he also admitted that he had never been any of these in any profound sense.

«It's a great excuse and luxury, having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own [art]. When you don't have to work, you are left with the horror of facing your own lack of imagination and your own emptiness. A devastating possibility when finally time is your own.»

Julian Schnabel*

*(Brooklyn, New York, U.S. 26-Oct-1951)
Artist and filmmaker. In the 1980s, received international media attention for his "plate paintings"—large-scale paintings set on broken ceramic plates.

«The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves, but they are like heat haze.»

Buddha

«To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.»

Elliott Erwitt*

* (Paris, France 26-July-1928).
Advertising and documentary photographer known for his black and white candid shots of ironic and absurd situations within everyday settings— a master of Henri Cartier-Bresson's "decisive moment".
In 1939, at the age of ten, Erwitt's family, of Russian origin, immigrated to the United States. Erwitt studied photography and filmmaking at Los Angeles City College and the New School for Social Research, finishing his education in 1950.

«Very few people can afford to be poor.»

George Bernard Shaw

«Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.»

Isadora Duncan*

* (San Francisco, California, U.S. 27-May-1877 / Nice, France 14-Sep-1927)
American dancer, lived in Western Europe and the Soviet Union from the age of 22 until her death at age 50. She performed to acclaim throughout Europe after being exiled from the United States for her pro-Soviet sympathies.
Died in an automobile accident in Nice, France, when she was a passenger in an Amilcar. Her silk scarf, draped around her neck, became entangled around the open-spoked wheels and rear axle, breaking her neck.
In 1987, she was inducted into the National Museum of Dance's Mr. & Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney Hall of Fame.

«If I had been the Virgin Mary, I would have said: 'No!'»

Margaret Smith*

* Six-time Emmy Award winning standup comic, actor, writer and producer. Originally from Chicago, Illinois, Smith is known for her deadpan and often acerbic delivery, reminiscent of Eve Arden. She was a writer and producer for The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

«There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.»

Ansel Adams*

* (Western Addition, San Francisco, California 20-Feb.-1902 / Monterey, California 22-Apr.-1984)
Photographer and environmentalist. With Fred Archer, Adams developed the Zone System as a way to determine proper exposure and adjust the contrast of the final print. The resulting clarity and depth characterized his photographs.

«Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.»

John F. Kennedy*

* (Brookline, Massachusetts, U.S. 29-May-1917 / Dallas, Texas, U.S. 22-Nov-1963).
35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. Notable events that occurred during his presidency included the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Space Race—by initiating Project Apollo (which later culminated in the moon landings), the building of the Berlin Wall, the African-American Civil Rights Movement, and the increased US involvement in the Vietnam War.

«The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.»

Erich Fromm*

* ( Frankfurt, Germany 23-Mar-1900 / Muralto, Switzerland 16-Mar-1980) German social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist.

"Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives."

William A. Foster*

* (Garfield Heights, Ohio, U.S. 17-Feb-1915 / Okinawa, Japan 2-May-1945).
United States Marine who received the Medal of Honor for his "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty" during World War II during the Battle of Okinawa in 1945.

Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (Copenhagen, Denmark 5-May-1813 / 11-Nov-1855).
Danish philosopher, theologian, poet, social critic, and religious author who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher. He wrote critical texts on organized religion, Christendom, morality, ethics, psychology and philosophy of religion, displaying a fondness for metaphor, irony and parables. Much of his philosophical work deals with the issues of how one lives as a "single individual", giving priority to concrete human reality over abstract thinking, and highlighting the importance of personal choice and commitment.

«If the Stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.»

Ralph Waldo Emerson*

* (Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. 25-May-1803 / Concord, Massachusetts 27-Apr-1882).
Essayist, lecturer, and poet, who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States.

«I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.»

Dick Gregory*

* (Saint Louis, Missouri, U.S. 12-Oct-1932).
Comedian, social activist, social critic, writer, conspiracy theorist, and entrepreneur.

«Without music, life would be a mistake.»

Friedrich Nietzsche

«A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.»

Walt Whitman*

* (West Hills, Huntington, Long Island, New York, U.S. 31-May-1819 / Camden, New Jersey, U.S. 26-Mar-1892).
Poet, essayist and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse.

«The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.»

Epicurus*

* (Samos, Greece February 341 BC / Athens, Greece 270 BC)
Ancient Greek philosopher as well as the founder of the school of philosophy called Epicureanism. Only a few fragments and letters of Epicurus's 300 written works remain. Much of what is known about Epicurean philosophy derives from later followers and commentators.

«The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.»

Jean Cocteau

«The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs.»

Marlene Dietrich*

* (Schöneberg, Province of Brandenburg, German Empire 27-Dec-1901 / Paris, France 6-May-1992)
German-American actress and singer. Her performance as Lola-Lola in The Blue Angel (1930), directed by Josef von Sternberg, brought her international fame and garnered her a contract with Paramount Pictures in the US.
Dietrich became a U.S. citizen in 1939 and throughout World War II she was a high-profile frontline entertainer.

«The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.»

Jackie Gleason*

* (Bushwick, New York City, NY, U.S. 26-Feb-1916 / Lauderhill, Florida 24-June-1987).
Comedian, actor, and musician.

«Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.»

Mark Twain

«Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.»

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow*

* (Portland, Maine, U.S. 27-Feb-1807 / Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. 24-Mar-1882).
Poet and educator. Longfellow wrote predominantly lyric poems, known for their musicality and often presenting stories of mythology and legend. He became the most popular American poet of his day and also had success overseas. He has been criticized, however, for imitating European styles and writing specifically for the masses.

«If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.»

Napoleon Bonaparte*

* (Ajaccio, Corsica, France 15-Aug-1769 / Longwood, Saint Helena 5-May-1821).
Emperor of the French from 1804 to 1814 and again in 1815. Napoleon maintained the French sphere of influence through the formation of fluctuating alliances and the elevation of friends and family members to rule other European countries as French vassal states. Napoleon was himself President (1802-1805), then king of Italy (1805-1814), Mediator of the Swiss Confederation (1803-1813) and Protector of the Confederation of the Rhine (1806-1813). When Napoleon placed his brother, Joseph Bonaparte, on the throne of Spain and tried to compel Portugal to follow his Continental System, it led to opposition in both countries and, with assistance of the British army, to the Peninsular War which drained French resources.

«Patriotism, the virtue of the vicious.»

Oscar Wilde

«The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.»

Jessamyn West*

* (Vernon, Indiana, U.S. 18-July-1902 / Napa County, California, U.S. 23-Feb-1984)
Author of short stories and novels. A Quaker from Indiana, she graduated from Fullerton Union High School in 1919 and Whittier College in 1923. There she helped found the Palmer Society in 1921.

«The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.»

Robert M. Hutchins*

* (Brooklyn, NY, U.S. 17-Jan-1899 / Santa Barbara, CA, U.S. 17-May-1977).
Educational philosopher, dean of Yale Law School, president and chancellor of the University of Chicago. Although his father and grandfather were both Presbyterian ministers, Hutchins became one of the most influential members of the school of secular perennialism.

«Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened»

T.S. Eliot*

* (St. Louis, MO, U.S. 26-Sep-1888 / Kensington, London, England 4-Jan-1965).
Essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic and one of the twentieth century's major poets. He emigrated to England in 1914 (at age 25) and was naturalised as a British subject in 1927 at age 39.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948, "for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry."

«To sit with a dog on a hillside, on a glorious afternoon, is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.»

Milan Kundera*

* (Brno, Czechoslovakia 1-Apr-1929)
Of Czech origin, he has lived in exile in France since 1975, having become a naturalised citizen in 1981. He "sees himself as a French writer and insists his work should be studied as French literature and classified as such in book stores.
His books were banned by the Communist regimes of Czechoslovakia until the downfall of the regime in the Velvet Revolution of 1989. A perennial contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature, he has been nominated on several occasions.

«More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.»

Woody Allen*

* (The Bronx, NY, U.S. 1-Dec-1935).
Actor, filmmaker, comedian, musician, and playwright whose career spans more than 50 years.
Allen has been nominated 24 times and won four Academy Awards: three for Best Original Screenplay and one for Best Director (Annie Hall). He has more screenwriting Academy Award nominations than any other writer, and has won nine British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards.

«Tobacco is a dirty weed. I like it.
It satisfies no normal need. I like it.
It makes you thin, it makes you lean,
It takes the hair right off your bean
It's the worst darn stuff I've ever seen.
I like it.»

Graham Lee Hemminger*

* (Nicholson, PA, U.S. 19-Dec-1895 / Great Neck, NY, U.S. 19-Dec-1950).
An expert on drug industry merchandising, he figured in the planning of the trade campaigns of many leading manufacturers. Among his most conspicuous plans was that for Nationally Advertised Brands Week, an industry-wide promotion conducted in October of each year.

«The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.»

Leonardo da Vinci

«When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.»

Alan Keyes*

* (Long Island, NY, U.S. 7-Aug-1950).
Conservative political activist, author, former diplomat, and perennial candidate for public office.
Keyes was appointed Ambassador to the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations by President Ronald Reagan, and served as Reagan's Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs from 1985 to 1987.

«She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.»

Raymond Chandler*

* (La Jolla, CA, U.S. 23-July-1888 / Chicago, IL, U.S. 26-Mar-1959).
Novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at age forty-four, Chandler decided to become a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Great Depression.
Some of Chandler's novels are considered important literary works, and three are often considered masterpieces: "Farewell, My Lovely" (1940), "The Little Sister" (1949), and "The Long Goodbye" (1953).

«A mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.»

William Wordsworth*

* (Cockermouth, Cumberland, Kingdom of Great Britain 7-Apr-1770 / Cumberland 23-Apr-1850).
Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798).

«There are no true friends in politics.»

Marcus Tullius Cicero*

* (Arpinum, Roman Republic 106 BC / Formia, Roman Republic 43 BC).
Roman philosopher, politician, lawyer, orator, political theorist, consul and constitutionalist. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the Roman equestrian order, and is widely considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists.

«From 1998 to 2007, 18 500 children died in car accidents, in the 27 EU countries»

European Transport Safety Council

«We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory.»

Henri Cartier-Bresson*

* (Chanteloup-en-Brie, France 22-Aug-1908 / Montjustin, France 3-Aug-2004.
Photographer considered to be the father of photojournalism. He was the master of candid photography and an early user of 35 mm film. He helped develop the street photography or life reportage style, and coined the term, The Decisive Moment, that has inspired generations of photographers ever since.

«In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.»

Henri Cartier-Bresson

«While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.»

John Taylor*

* (Caroline County, Colony of Virginia 19-Dec1753 / 21-Aug-1824).
Politician and writer. He served in the Virginia House of Delegates and in the United States Senate.

«I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food.
He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.»

Johnny Carson*

* (Corning, IA, U.S. 23-October-1925 / Los Angeles, CA, U.S. 23-January-2005)
Television host, comedian, writer, producer, actor, and musician known for thirty years as host of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962–1992). Carson received six Emmy Awards, the Governor's Award, and a 1985 Peabody Award. He was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 1987. Johnny Carson was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1992 and received a Kennedy Center Honor in 1993.

«That's what bothers me about the English soccer; they all kick that ball, in the vague hope somewhere will be a forward player.»

Ritchie Blackmore*

* (Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England 14-Apr-1945).
Guitarist and songwriter, who began his professional career as a session musician as a member of the instrumental band The Outlaws and as a backing musician of pop singers. Blackmore was also one of the original members of Deep Purple, playing jam-style rock music which mixed simple guitar riffs and organ sounds.

«God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.»

Ramakrishna*

* (Kamarpukur, Bengal Presidency, British India 18-Feb-1836 / Calcutta, Bengal Presidency
16-Aug-1886).
Ramakrishna was born in a poor Brahmin , Vaishnava family in rural Bengal. He became a priest of the Dakshineswar Kali Temple, dedicated to the goddess Kali, which had the influence of the main strands of Bengali bhakti tradition. His religious school of thought led to the formation of the Ramakrishna Mission by his chief disciple Swami Vivekananda,

«He obliged Cinderella to sit down, and, putting the slipper to her little foot, he found it went on very easily, and fitted her as if it had been made of wax.»

Charles Perrault*

* (Paris, France 12-Jan-1628 / 16-May-1703).

French author and member of the Académie française. He laid the foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale, with his works derived from pre-existing folk tales. The best known of his tales include Le Petit Chaperon rouge (Little Red Riding Hood), Cendrillon (Cinderella), Le Chat Botté (Puss in Boots), La Belle au bois dormant (The Sleeping Beauty) and La Barbe bleue (Bluebeard).

«The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.»

Russell Baker*

* (U.S. 14-Aug-1925).
Essayist, journalist, and biographer, as well as the host of the PBS show Masterpiece Theatre. Baker wrote or edited seventeen books. His first Pulitzer was for distinguished commentary for his "Observer" columns (1979) and the second one was for his autobiography, Growing Up (1982).

«I'm living a dream I never want to wake up from.»

Cristiano Ronaldo*

* (Funchal, Madeira, Portugal 5-Feb-1985).
Professional footballer who plays as a forward for Spanish club Real Madrid and captains the Portugal national team.
Ronaldo is regarded by some in the sport to be currently the best player in the world and one of the greatest of all time. He is the first Portuguese footballer to win two FIFA/Ballons d'Or and the second player to win three European Golden Shoe awards. With Manchester United and Real Madrid, Ronaldo has won three Premier Leagues, one La Liga, one FA Cup, two Football League Cups, two Copas del Rey, one FA Community Shield, one Supercopas de España, two UEFA Champions Leagues, one UEFA Super Cup and one FIFA Club World Cup.

«Ensinai aos vossos filhos o trabalho, ensinai às vossas filhas a modéstia, ensinai a todos a virtude da economia. E se não poderdes fazer deles santos, fazei ao menos deles cristãos».

Salazar*

* (Vimieiro, Santa Comba Dão 28-abr-1889 / Lisboa 27-Jul-1970).

Político fascista que foi Presidente do Conselho durante 36 anos.

«For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone. »

Audrey Hepburn*

* (Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium 4-May-1929 / Tolochenaz, Vaud, Switzerland 20-Jan-1993).
After starring in the 1951 Broadway play Gigi, Hepburn played the lead role in Roman Holiday (1953), for which she was the first actress to win an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and a BAFTA Award for a single performance. Hepburn remains one of few people who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards. She won a record three BAFTA Awards for Best British Actress in a Leading Role.

«More law, less justice.»

Marcus Tullius Cicero

«My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' And the people say: 'Hey, you look like...' And I'm dying while they're wondering whether I'm Barbra Streisand.»

Barbra Streisand

«No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.»

George Bernard Shaw

«If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.»

Benjamin Franklin*

* (Boston, Massachusetts Bay 17-Jan-1706 / Philadelphia, PA, U.S. 17-Apr-1790).
One of the Founding Fathers of the United States and in many ways was "the First American". A renowned polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. As an inventor, he is known for the lightning rod, bifocals, and the Franklin stove, among other inventions.

«American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.»

W. Somerset Maugham*

* (UK Embassy, Paris, France 25-Jan-1874 / Nice, France 16-December-1965).

British playwright, novelist and short story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highest paid author during the 1930s.

«Time is more complex near the sea than in any other place, for in addition to the circling of the sun and the turning of the seasons, the waves beat out the passage of time on the rocks and the tides rise and fall as a great clepsydra.»

John Steinbeck*

* (Salinas, CA, U.S. 26-Feb-1902 / New York City, U.S. 20-Dec-1968).
Author of twenty-seven books, including sixteen novels, six non-fiction books, and five collections of short stories. He is widely known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath (1939), East of Eden (1952) and the novella Of Mice and Men (1937).
Steinbeck controversially received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962 "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception".

«Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.»

Jacques-Henri Lartigue*

* (Courbevoie, France 13-June-1894 / Nice, France 12-Sep-1986).
Photographer and painter, known for his photographs of automobile races, planes and Parisian fashion female models.

«The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.»

H. L. Mencken*

* (Baltimore, MD, U.S. 12-Sep-1880 / 29-January-1956).
Journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, critic of American life and culture, and scholar of American English. Known as the "Sage of Baltimore", he is regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the twentieth century.

«Não pode ser a Comunicação Social a selecionar aquilo que transmite.»

Manuela Ferreira Leite*

* (Lisboa, 3-dez-1940).
Economista e política. Entrou para a política pela mão de Aníbal Cavaco Silva, seu colega na Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. No VI Governo Constitucional, chefiado por Francisco Sá Carneiro, assumiu funções como chefe de gabinete do então Ministro das Finanças e Plano, até 1981. Seria também Cavaco Silva a nomeá-la Secretária de Estado do Orçamento do XI Governo, em 1990. Em 1991 é chamada para o XII Governo, como Secretária de Estado Adjunta e do Orçamento, até 1993, e como Ministra da Educação, até 1995.
Foi também Ministra de Estado e das Finanças do Governo de Durão Barroso.

«All human beings should try to learn, before they die, what they are running from and to and why.»

James Thurber*

* (Columbus, OH, U.S. 8-Dec1894 / New York, NY, U.S. 2-Nov-1961).
Cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright, and celebrated wit.

“A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.”

Oscar Wilde

«If only everything in life was as reliable as a Volkswagen.»

VW advertising campaign.

«An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.»

Lao Tzu

«Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.»

Alexander McQueen

"Já que a má sorte assim quis, a tua sina te diz...
Que até morrer, terás de ser, sempre infeliz."

(Fado da Sina, de Amadeu Do Vale e Jaime Mendes)

"Quem não pode fazer grandes coisas, faça ao menos o que estiver na medida de suas forças; certamente não ficará sem recompensa"

Santo António de Lisboa (e Pádua)

"Lost Time Is Never Found" - Benjamin Franklin

"The only thing that we cannot control is our supporters."

José Mourinho

«You know, identical twins are never really identical. There is always one that is prettier, and the other one does all the work.»

Hedra Carlson

«The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.»

Mother Teresa

«The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.»

Pearl S. Buck *

* (Hillsboro, WV, U.S. 26-June-1892 / Danby, VT, U.S. 6-Mar-1973).
Writer and novelist. As the daughter of missionaries, Buck spent most of her life before 1934 in China. Her novel "The Good Earth" was the best-selling fiction book in the U.S. in 1931 and 1932 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. In 1938, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces.

«I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the manmade sound never equaled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.»

Alfred Hitchcock*

* (Leytonstone, Essex, England 13-Aug-1899 / Bel Air, CA, U.S. 29-Apr-1980).
Film director and producer. Often nicknamed "The Master of Suspense", he pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres. Hitchcock directed more than fifty feature films in a career spanning six decades.

«All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.»

Louis Armstrong*

* (Corona, Queens, New York City, U.S. 4-Aug-1901 / New Orleans, LA, U.S. 6-July-1971).
Jazz trumpeter, singer, and an influential figure in jazz music. Armstrong was a foundational influence in jazz, shifting the focus of the music from collective improvisation to solo performance.

«Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.»

Laozi *

* Philosopher and poet of ancient China. He is best known as the reputed author of the "Tao Te Ching" and the founder of philosophical Taoism, but he is also revered as a deity in religious Taoism and traditional Chinese religions. Although a legendary figure, he is usually dated to around the 6th century BC and reckoned a contemporary of Confucius, but some historians contend that he actually lived during the Warring States period of the 5th or 4th century BC. A central figure in Chinese culture, Laozi is claimed by both the emperors of the Tang dynasty and modern people of the Li surname as a founder of their lineage.

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«You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.»

Merle Shain*

* (1935–1989).
Canadian author and journalist.

«The conductor's stand is not a continent of power, but rather an island of solitude.»

Riccardo Muti *

* (Naples, Italy 28-July-1941).
Italian conducter, Muti has been a prolific recording artist and has received dozens of honors, titles, awards and prizes. He is particularly associated with the music of Giuseppe Verdi.

«Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.»

Hal Borland *

* (Sterling, NE, U.S. 14-May-1900 / New York, NY, U.S. 22-Feb-1978).

Author and journalist. In addition to writing several novels and books about the outdoors, he wrote "outdoor editorials" for The New York Times for more than 30 years, from 1941 to 1978.

«Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.»

Paul Theroux

«Epitaph for a dead waiter - God finally caught his eye.»

George S. Kaufman

«Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. It is not just a pretty picture, not an exercise in contortionist techniques and sheer print quality. It is or should be a signific ant document, a penetrating statement, which can be described in a very simple term - selectivity.»

Berenice Abbott

"Dance like no one is watching."

Lindsay Kolb

«The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.»

Desmond Morris

«Model: Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body.»

Robert Bresson

«Every morning, before beginning your day’s work, don’t forget to carefully clean up your lenses. You’ll accomplish much better results.»

D R*

* (Born Lisbon, Portugal 2-Apr-1959 / Lisbon 16-Nov-1986 / Caldas da Rainha 18-Oct-2005)
Modesty is one of my many virtuies, therefore I won't add anything else about myself...

«Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.»

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

«I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.»

Barbra Streisand

«In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.»

Marc Chagall

«We seek true individuality and the true individuals. But we find them not. For lo, we mortals see what our poor eyes can see; and they, the true individuals, - they belong not to this world of our merely human sense and thought.»

Josiah Royce

«The policeman isn't there to create disorder; the policeman is there to preserve disorder.»

Richard J. Daley

«Political advertising ought to be stopped. It's the only really dishonest kind of advertising that's left. It's totally dishonest.»

David Ogilvy

Cidadão transmontano: - Estamos aqui muito abandonados! Os nossos filhos têm de emigrar...
P.C. Rangel, no seu timbre canarrachadista de perpétua vítima de bulingue: - Abandonados?! Não estão nada! Estão a uma hora e um quarto do mar. Podem ir à praia todos os dias.


Sensibildade social. Este, pelo menos, nem se dá ao trabalho de fingir...

«Os Estados não se avaliam pelo dinheiro que têm, mas sim pela sua história e pela sua gente. Nesse sentido, Portugal não pode ser considerado um País pobre, bem pelo contrário.»

Mário Soares

«Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it may be.»

Edward Weston

«From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.»

Karl Marx

«O povo português revelou-se o melhor povo do mundo e o melhor ativo de Portugal.»

V.G. (ministro das finanças entre 2011 e 2013).