Releasing the Magic!: The British Library

Friday, 18 February 2011

The British Library

It was great to visit the British Library yesterday...

My favourite area is The Sir John Ritblat Gallery which hosts a permanent display of many of the library's greatest treasures.
It houses over 200 beautiful and fascinating items including sacred texts from many faiths, maps and views, early printing, literary, historical, scientific and musical works from over the centuries and around the world. I spent a long time looking at the Treasures and it was simply awe inspiring to look at some of the world's most exciting and significant books, from Magna Carta and the Gutenberg Bible, to Handel and the Beatles. Their special exhibition explores the English language in all its national and international diversity and aims to show the many social, cultural and historical strands from which the language has been woven. The 'Evolving English; One Language, Many Voices' exhibition looks at the roots of Old English, slang dictionaries, medieval manuscripts, advertisements and newspapers from around the world alongside everyday texts and dialect sound recordings. Visitors follow the social, cultural and historical influences on the English language... and see how it’s still evolving today.
Chris

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BRILLIANT QUOTES!

"There is no passion to be found playing small -in settling for a life that is less than you are capable of living."

Nelson Mandela

"It always seems impossible until it is done."

Nelson Mandela

"Life isn't measured by the number of breaths we take but the moments that take our breath away."

Anonymous

"Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it.”

Wilfred Peterson

"Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves."

James Barrie

"Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve."

Martin Luther King

"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."

Albert Einstein

"No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt."

Max Beerbohm

"If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential. For the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible!"

Soren Kierkegaard

"If you are called to be a street sweeper, you should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry."

Martin Luther King

"The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit."

Mark Twain

"The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows, it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts."

Booker T Washington

"It's never too late to be who you might have been."

George Elliot

"Twenty years from now you'll be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do."

Mark Twain

"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation."

Robert F. Kennedy

"There is nothing in life so difficult that it cannot be overcome. This faith can move mountains. It can change people. It can change the world."

Norman Vincent Peale

Friday, 18 February 2011

The British Library

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