Allen’s distinctive films, which run the gamut from dramas to screwball sex comedies, have made him one of the most respected living American directors. He is also distinguished by his rapid rate of production and his very large body of work. Allen writes and directs his movies and has also acted in the majority of them. For inspiration, Allen draws heavily on literature, sexuality, philosophy, psychology, Ancient Greece, Jewish identity, European cinema and New York City, where he was born and has lived his entire life.

Allen is also a jazz clarinetist. What began as a teenage avocation has led to regular public performances at various small venues in his Manhattan hometown, with occasional appearances at various jazz festivals. Allen joined the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and the New Orleans Funeral Ragtime Orchestra in performances that provided the film score for his 1973 comedy Sleeper, and a rare European tour in 1996 featuring Allen was the subject of the documentary Wild Man Blues.

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More Quotes

1. Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.

2. I am not afraid of death, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

3. In Beverly Hills… they don’t throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows.

4. In my house I’m the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.

Temple was the second son of Archbishop Frederick Temple (1821–1902). He was educated at Rugby School and Balliol College, Oxford, where he obtained a double first in classics. He was a fellow and lecturer in Philosophy at The Queen’s College, Oxford from 1904–10, and was ordained priest in 1909. Between 1910 and 1914 he was Headmaster of Repton School after which he returned to being a full time clergyman, becoming Bishop of Manchester in 1921 and Archbishop of York in 1929. In 1932–33, he gave the Gifford Lectures.

A renowned teacher and preacher, Temple is perhaps best known for his 1942 book Christianity and Social Order, which set out an Anglican social theology and a vision for what would constitute a just post-war society. Also in 1942, with Chief Rabbi Joseph Hertz, Temple jointly founded the Council of Christians and Jews to combat anti-Jewish bigotry.

Temple defended the working-class movement and supported economic and social reforms. As the first President (1908–1924) of the Workers’ Educational Association he joined the Labour Party. He also participated in the ecumenical movement, took part in the Lausanne Conference of 1927, and helped prepare the World Conference of Churches in Edinburgh, 1937.

One of his more famous sayings (though it is hard to pin down a source) is that,

“The Church is the only society that exists for the benefit of those who are not its members.“

He is also the author of the quote:

“Worship is the submission of all of our nature to God. It is the quickening of conscience by His holiness, nourishment of mind by His truth, purifying of imagination by His beauty, opening of the heart to His love, and submission of will to His purpose. And all this gathered up in adoration is the greatest of human expressions of which we are capable.”

1. Man’s wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.

2. Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves.

3. The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one’s own opinions, and value others that deserve it.

4. The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.

5. The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

6. The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.

7. There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

During his army career, Churchill saw military action in India, the Sudan and the Second Boer War. He gained fame and notoriety as a war correspondent and through contemporary books he wrote describing the campaigns. He also served briefly in the British Army on the Western Front in World War I, commanding the 6th Battalion of the Royal Scots Fusiliers.

At the forefront of the political scene for almost fifty years, he held many political and cabinet positions. Before the First World War, he served as President of the Board of Trade, Home Secretary and First Lord of the Admiralty as part of the Asquith Liberal government. During the war he continued as First Lord of the Admiralty until the disastrous Gallipoli Campaign caused his departure from government. He returned as Minister of Munitions, Secretary of State for War and Secretary of State for Air. In the interwar years, he served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Conservative government.

After the outbreak of the Second World War, Churchill was again appointed First Lord of the Admiralty. Following the resignation of Neville Chamberlain on 10 May 1940, he became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and led Britain to victory against the Axis powers. Churchill was always noted for his speeches, which became a great inspiration to the British people and to the embattled Allied forces.

After losing the 1945 election, he became Leader of the Opposition. In 1951 he again became Prime Minister, before finally retiring in 1955. Upon his death, the Queen granted him the honour of a state funeral, which saw one of the largest assemblies of statesmen in the world.

1. A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.

2. A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

3. A man does what he must – in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures – and that is the basis of all human morality.

4. A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

5. A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

6. All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

7. Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.

8. Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

9. Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.

10. Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities… because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

11. Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

12. Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

13. Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

14. I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

15. I never worry about action, but only inaction.

16. If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.

17. If you are going through hell, keep going.

18. If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time – a tremendous whack.

19. It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

20. It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

21. Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

22. Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

23. Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

24. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

25. We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

26. We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

The hyphens in the character’s name were later dropped when The Walt Disney Company adapted the Pooh stories into a series of Winnie the Pooh featurettes that became one of the company’s most successful franchises worldwide.

1. If ever there is tomorrow when we’re not together.. there is something you must always remember. you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. but the most important thing is, even if we’re apart.. I’ll always be with you.

2. It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn’t use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like “What about lunch?”

3. You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

4. Promise me you’ll never forget me because if I thought you would I’d never leave.

5. If the person you are talking to doesn’t appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.

6. You can’t help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn’t spell it right; but spelling isn’t everything. There are days when spelling Tuesday simply doesn’t count.

7. A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.

8. Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone what you are looking for before you begin looking for it.

Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, who bore him three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part owner of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, later known as the King’s Men. He appears to have retired to Stratford around 1613, where he died three years later. Few records of Shakespeare‘s private life survive, and there has been considerable speculation about such matters as his physical appearance, sexuality, religious beliefs, and whether the works attributed to him were written by others.

Shakespeare produced most of his known work between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were mainly comedies and histories, genres he raised to the peak of sophistication and artistry by the end of the sixteenth century. He then wrote mainly tragedies until about 1608, including Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth, considered some of the finest works in the English language. In his last phase, he wrote tragicomedies, also known as romances, and collaborated with other playwrights. Many of his plays were published in editions of varying quality and accuracy during his lifetime. In 1623, two of his former theatrical colleagues published the First Folio, a collected edition of his dramatic works that included all but two of the plays now recognised as Shakespeare‘s.

Shakespeare was a respected poet and playwright in his own day, but his reputation did not rise to its present heights until the nineteenth century. The Romantics, in particular, acclaimed Shakespeare’s genius, and the Victorians hero-worshiped Shakespeare with a reverence that George Bernard Shaw called “bardolatry”. In the twentieth century, his work was repeatedly adopted and rediscovered by new movements in scholarship and performance. His plays remain highly popular today and are constantly studied, performed and reinterpreted in diverse cultural and political contexts throughout the world. (Read more about William Shakespeare on Wikipedia)

Reading resource on the complete work of William Shakespeare at: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

1. A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

2. A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.

3. As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.

4. Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

5. Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.

6. Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

7. Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.

8. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

9. How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.