Tag Archives: Quotes

On the Backs, Cambridge

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“When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.” “Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.” “Love is a better teacher than duty.” “The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.” “We …

Bridges across the Cam in Cambridge

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“Education is all a matter of building bridges.” – Ralph Ellison (My favourite quote to bridges and interesting facts to this bridge in particular  is coming up soon on kbvollmarblog ) 🙂 “I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality.” – Max Beckmann “One of the hardest things in life to …

Scream – Der Schrei nach Edvard Munch

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    ♦♦♦ “I was walking along a road one evening – on one side lay the city, and below me was the fjord. The sun went down – the clouds were stained red, as if with blood. I felt as though the whole of nature was screaming – it seemed as though I could …

Reading – Classic Style

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Im Liegen zu lesen ist Erliegen dem Wesen Aus “Den Brabbeleien von Masterchen” von Siri Buchfee gesammelt Belly reading is mind weeding! From Master’s gibberish, collected by Selma, Bookfayrie © Text: unauthorized publication © Photo: Roswitha Mecke (it’s not quite the original, Dina made a photo of the photo)

Postcard from Trinity College, Dublin

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Have you been to Dublin lately? We went there last month. We met Perfectlight, which was really great. A fortnight is rather short for the City of Literature, though… You thought Dublin in November’d be grey, wet and dull, right? Come with us to Trinity College. Let’s go to The Old Library, the Long Room. …

Chester Beatty Library, Dublin

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“…It’s surely clear that to describe Dublin as a City of Literature would be like saying rain sometimes falls in Ireland”. – Joseph O’Connor – author of Star of the Sea “He’d … settled into a life of Guinness, sarcasm and late, late nights, the kind of life that American academics think real Dubliners lead”. …