Guillaumin Stamps Quotes & Sayings

Ten years after the first commercial train service began operating between Liverpool and Manchester, in 1830, the first train timetable was issued. The trains were much faster than the old carriages, so the quirky differences in local hours became a severe nuisance. In 1847, British train companies put their heads together and agreed that henceforth all train timetables would be calibrated to Greenwich Observatory time, rather than the local times of Liverpool, Manchester or Glasgow. More and more institutions followed the lead of the train companies. Finally, in 1880, the British government took the unprecedented step of legislating that all timetables in Britain must follow Greenwich. For the first time in history, a country adopted a national time and obliged its population to live according to an artificial clock rather than local ones or sunrise-to-sunset — Yuval Noah Harari

I've got an adjective that just fits you. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I always loved singing, but I thought it was like drawing - just something you do in your own little corner to calm yourself down. But when my friend, the French songwriter Etienne Daho, listened to my songs, he was so moved that told me that I had to do a demo, share them with the world. — Lou Doillon

I don't like sticking to just one thing; it bores me. — Judi Shekoni

I am bewitched with the rogue's company. If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged. — William Shakespeare

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. --The Price of the Ticket, "No Name in the Street" (1972; repr. 1985) The — James Baldwin

Energy and imagination are the springboards to wealth creation. — Brian Tracy

The two biggest self-deceptions of all are that life has a 'meaning'and each of us is unique. — David Byrne

I still the love classic period, but also the baroque period, and even 17th-Century music such as the music of Monteverdi. He's one of the greatest opera composers. He was the one who really started the opera. — Cecilia Bartoli

Don't just follow the herd. Be like a bird. Open your wings and fly high in the sky!-RVM — R.v.m.

The NHS is a national organisation, but it is best delivered locally. — Andrew Lansley

Fears are like waves that can overwhelm us if we don't overcome them! HS/el — Evinda Lepins