Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Bruce Sprinsteen

From small things, Mama, big things one day come.


Bruce Springsteen (1949), nicknamed "The Boss", is an American singer-songwriter. He records and tours with the E Street Band. Springsteen is widely known for his brand of heartland rock infused with pop hooks, poetic lyrics, and Americanasentiments centered on his native New Jersey.


Mia Michaels

Genius lies in the awkward.


Mia Michaels is an American choreographer best known for her judging and contemporary choreography on the TV show So You Think You Can Dance. She has worked with musical artists such as Celine DionMadonnaRicky MartinGloria Estefan, and Prince. In 2005 she choreographed Cirque du Soleil's world tour, "Delirium" as well as Celine Dion's Las Vegas show "A New Day..." for which she was later nominated for Emmy. 

Monday, December 28, 2009

Chet Atkins

Everything I’ve ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.


Chester Burton Atkins (1924 – 2001), better known as Chet Atkins, was an American guitarist and record producer who helped create the smoother country music style known as the Nashville Sound, which expanded country's appeal to adult pop music fans as well.

Ernest Hemingway

Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.


Ernest Hemingway (1899 – 1961) was an American writer and journalist. He received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1954 for his novel The Old Man and the Sea. Hemingway's unique style of writing had a significant influence on the development of twentieth-century fiction writing. Famous titles include The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms and For Whom the Bell Tolls.

Sunday, December 27, 2009

Angela Monet

Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.


This quote is attributed to Angela Monet but there is mystery surrounding who exactly she is. Do a Google search and nothing results, in this time and day this is quite the unusual case.

Meet Me in St. Louis

The moment I saw him smile 
I knew he was just my style.
 My only regret is we've never met,
 Though I dream of him all the while.


Meet Me in St. Louis is a 1944 romantic musical film from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer which tells the story of four sisters living in St. Louis at the time of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair in 1904. This line is said by Esther Smith, one of the story's main characters while she sings the "Trolley" song.

Friday, December 25, 2009

Charles Dickens

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home!


Dickens wrote this in the Pickwick Papers. Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era, and one of the most popular of all time. He created some of literature's most iconic characters, with the theme of social reform running throughout his work.