Friday, March 20, 2020
Tuesday, March 17, 2020
blazing virus
Labels:
carl reiner,
comedy,
coronavirus,
covid 19,
dick van dyck,
max brooks,
mel brooks,
virus
Monday, March 16, 2020
but when life expectancy was 40
“The second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky
Sunday, March 15, 2020
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
Saturday, February 29, 2020
tactic
"The writer's job is to tell the truth," Ernest Hemingway once said. When he was having difficulty writing he reminded himself of this, as he explained in his memoirs, A Moveable Feast. "I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, 'Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.' So finally I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there. It was easy then because there was always one true sentence that I knew or had seen or had heard someone say."
- Source here.
Labels:
bipolar disorder,
hemingway,
Nobel Prize,
suicide,
writer,
writer's block
hand hygiene
Is hand sanitiser better than hand washing against coronavirus?
"No," explained here. Soap is less harmful to your hands, which doesn't break down skin, not leaving hands raw and vulnerable.
Friday, February 28, 2020
Sunday, February 23, 2020
my ancestral home
On 23 and 24 June 1314, The Battle of Bannockburn was waged here. A victory for the army of King of Scots Robert the Bruce over the army of King Edward II.
Saturday, February 22, 2020
Major Influence
"And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this is another level. A higher level, actually. I love the Sargent, but it's not the level of Van Gogh."
- David Hockney
Labels:
art,
bipolar disorder,
david hockney,
influence,
john singer sargent,
van Gogh
Friday, February 21, 2020
Monday, February 17, 2020
phoenix
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
– Nelson Mandela
Saturday, February 15, 2020
Friday, February 14, 2020
Thursday, February 13, 2020
Wednesday, February 12, 2020
Tuesday, February 11, 2020
Friday, February 7, 2020
Thursday, February 6, 2020
patience
“Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”
– Warren Buffett
Wednesday, February 5, 2020
serendipity
"Everything about my career has been luck - no strategy, no planning."
- Three-Star Michelin Chef Marco Pierre White
Tuesday, February 4, 2020
Wednesday, January 29, 2020
Tuesday, January 7, 2020
Monday, January 6, 2020
Indian politician
“There are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group. There is less competition there.”
– Indira Gandhi
Saturday, January 4, 2020
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