A-Z Challenge -"Z" & Disclaimer

 Hi and welcome to my site!

As a very young girl I lived with my paternal grandmother for three formative years. Being an enthusiastic teacher and lover of words, she invariably had quotations written all over the house... literally. On the backs of cupboard doors, on calendars, napkins or wherever she happened to be.  With this in mind I am finding the authors, in alphabetical sequence, of many of her favorite quotations and am adding some of those that are special to my family as well.  Hope you enjoy!



                                                           
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Stefan Zweig (November 28, 1881 – February 22, 1942) was an Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer. At the height of his literary career, in the 1920s and 1930s, he was one of the most famous writers in the world.

 There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice.

 Every wave, regardless of how high and forceful it crests, must eventually collapse within itself.

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Darryl Francis Zanuck (September 5, 1902 – December 22, 1979) was an American producer,writer,actor, director and studio executive who played a major part in the Hollywood studio system as one of its longest survivors (the length of his career being rivaled only by that of  Adolph Zukor). He earned three Academy Awards during his tenure.

If two men on a job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, then both are useless.

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Well, there you have it.... A-Z Challenge Complete!!!!Yeah!


Many thanks to all those who have stopped by my blog and to those who have "followed" this blog, as well. Looking forward to new and exciting challenges in the days and weeks ahead!! Cheers to you!!!

   DISCLAIMER

Information for author biographies for A-Z Challenge 2012 was obtained from Wikipedia .  Photos of authors from Google Images.  Some quotes from Brainyquote.com were used.  Many quotations used were written as they were taught to me. Any discrepancies between what is written and the author's actual words is unintentional.  Additional photos were either my own (usually accompanied by a caption) or from Google Images.

A-Z Blogging Challenge "Y"

Hi and welcome to my site!

As a very young girl I lived with my paternal grandmother for three formative years. Being an enthusiastic teacher and lover of words, she invariably had quotations written all over the house... literally. On the backs of cupboard doors, on calendars, napkins or wherever she happened to be.  With this in mind I am finding the authors, in alphabetical sequence, of many of her favorite quotations and am adding some of those that are special to my family as well.  Hope you enjoy!




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William Butler Yeats ( 13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet and playwright, and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments. In 1923 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature,as the first Irishman so honoured for what the Nobel Committee  described as "inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation." Yeats is generally considered one of the few writers who completed their greatest works after being awarded the Nobel Prize.

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

Being a new blogger, this  Yeats quote is  my salute to those I have already "met" and those that I hope to "meet"!!

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

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 Neil Percival Young, (born November 12, 1945) is a Canadian singer-songwriter who is widely regarded as one of the most influential musicians of his generation.
Young began performing as a solo artist in Canada in 1960, before moving to California in 1966, where he co-founded the band Buffalo Springfield along with Stephen Sills, and Richie Furay , and later joined  Crosby ,Stills &  Nash  as a fourth member in 1969. He has been inducted into the Hall of Fame twice: first as a solo artist in 1995, and second as a member of Buffalo Springfield in 1997.

 As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more. 
 

As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.