Released in 1994, Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas Is You is estimated to have generated well over €40 million in worldwide royalties over the years, with more recent estimates for the UK suggesting the song still earns royalties of around €400,000 a year. “I Wish It Could Be…
The end justifies the means is a phrase of Niccolò MachiavelliNiccolò MachiavelliHe has often been called the father of modern political philosophy and political science. For many years he served as a senior official in the Florentine Republic with responsibilities in diplomatic and military affairs. He wrote comedies, carnival songs,…
I am talking about the immortal final lines of his 1959 comedy “Some Like It Hot.” They are two words so incredible that he even enshrined them on his own gravestone. Those words are, of course, “Nobody’s perfect.” This line, uttered by the wonderful character actor Joe E. For a…
“The proper study of mankind, is man.” Alexander Pope (1688–1744) The proper study of Mankind is Man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A Being darkly wise, and rudely great…” Alexander Pope, Essay on Man, Epistle II (1734) “Know then thyself, presume not God to scan… The proper…
Equality 7-2521’s independence is further shown in his wondering regarding the Unmentionable Times and, especially, the Unspeakable Word. These thoughts are strictly forbidden, and speaking them, punishable by death, but Equality 7-2521 is undaunted. Fist of Stral (Autocannon) Avenging Harold (Heavy Pistol) Ralner’s Blaze (Assault Rifle) Rolling Carnage (Shotgun) What…
They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corn cribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” “Things are always better in the morning.” ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird 2. “The one place…
Time and tide wait for no man. Geoffrey Chaucer – Time and tide wait for no man. Time and tide wait for no man. The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. Yesterday’s the past, tomorrow’s the future, but today is a gift. Expansion of the Proverb The proverb…
Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address begins with the words, “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equalall men are created equalThe second paragraph of the United States Declaration of Independence…
In fact, Pauly D wasn’t the one to come up with the cast’s iconic “GTL” catchphrase—an abbreviation for the cast’s “gym, tan, laundry” routine. “We started summarizing the day’s shoots on whiteboards and just started writing GTL for short, and Pauly was in front of the camera like, ’GTL? What’s…
Victor tells Walton, ’Learn from me…how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow. What does Frankenstein say about knowledge? Victor Frankenstein, and his…