Monday, September 5, 2016

on his craft


"We're not saving lives. Maybe we're saving someone's day."
- a reasonable European Chef

on the Irish pub


"There are no strangers here, only friends that you have not met."
- William Butler Yeats

happy warrior


Wordsworth's Admiral Lord Nelson poem :
Who is the happy Warrior? Who is he
That every man in arms should wish to be?
—It is the generous Spirit, who, when brought
Among the tasks of real life, hath wrought
Upon the plan that pleased his boyish thought:
Whose high endeavours are an inward light
That makes the path before him always bright;
Who, with a natural instinct to discern
What knowledge can perform, is diligent to learn;
Abides by this resolve, and stops not there,
But makes his moral being his prime care;
Who, doomed to go in company with Pain,
And Fear, and Bloodshed, miserable train!
Turns his necessity to glorious gain ...
Continue here.

secrets


"He never let his left hand know what his right hand was doing."
- On FDR

Saturday, September 3, 2016

truism


"People don't like to admit when they've made a mistake."
- From "Conviction"

sick cure


"Romans licked the wounds and ate the livers of dead gladiators for perceived health benefits."
- Michael Mosley

"just a painter of postcards"


- Canaletto [1697-1768]

not quite humiliated


... but embarrassed.

Winslow Homer failed to sell. He was thought of as the brooding, solitude, reclusive artist. 

Friday, September 2, 2016

A man who speaks to his car


"My favourite movie is 'Cool Runnings.'"
- Formula 1's Lewis Hamilton

on tedium


"I like boring things."
- Andy Warhol

Thursday, September 1, 2016

chicken or egg


"You wouldn't need church if you didn't have sin."
- Oprah

tarot cards


"I see a psychic because it's cheaper than a therapist and produces (equal or) better results."
- Judy Greer

Wednesday, August 31, 2016

a film about bipolar disorder

2 fingers


Frank Sinatra's Jack Daniel's measurement.

Tuesday, August 30, 2016

battle field to wheat field


A Civil War veteran returns to the field. 

space opera


"Art on all levels is technology."
- George Lucas

where Churchill wrote his memoirs

on Napoleon


"You can't trust short men as their brains are too close to their bottoms."
- Noel Coward

numerology


"If you only knew the magnificence of the 3, 6 and 9, then you would have a key to the universe.”
- Nikola Tesla [1856-1943]

Monday, August 29, 2016

mis leader


"He had an extraordinary ability for self-deception."
- On LBJ

blow up your images


Enlarge images for a reasonable price here. Old family photos. Magazine advertisements. Internet files. Art work that would be better bigger.

Contact Rebel Storms: rebels@bigfootprints.ca

what he misses most


"I miss taking a nice walk."
- President Barack Obama

Black Leonardo


"Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible."
- George Washington Carver





Sunday, August 28, 2016

grim reaper


"Time takes everyone out. It's undefeated."

overcame adversity


"Time is the great author, for it has the perfect ending."
- Charlie Chaplin [1889-1977]

Saturday, August 27, 2016

seal against gas


Adolph Hitler [1889-1945] adopted his variety of moustache in World War I to accommodate gas masks.

blended scotch


"Everywhere he went he took dozens of cases of Cutty Sark with him."
- LBJ Aide

pugilist


"It's not about how hard you can hit. It's about how hard you can take a hit."
- Sylvester Stallone

incrementalism


"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together."
- Vincent van Gogh