Famous people who have studied the Alexander Technique include writers Aldous Huxley, Robertson Davies and Roald Dahl, playwright George Bernard Shaw, actors Judy Dench, Hilary Swank, Ben Kingsley, Michael Caine, Jeremy Irons, John Cleese, Kevin Kline, William Hurt, Jamie Lee Curtis, Paul Newman, Mary Steenburgen, Robin Williams and Patti Lupone, musicians Paul McCartney, Madonna, Yehudi Menuhin and Sting, and Nobel Prize winner for medicine and physiology Nikolaas Tinbergen.

Sir Stafford Cripps, George Bernard Shaw, Henry Irving and other stage grandees, Lord Lytton and other eminent people of the era also wrote positive appreciations of his work after taking lessons with Alexander.

This divergence between American English and British English once caused George Bernard Shaw to say that the United States and United Kingdom are " two countries divided by a common language "; a similar comment is ascribed to Winston Churchill.

According to Capp's brother Elliot, Alfred had finished all of Shakespeare and George Bernard Shaw by the time he turned 13.

Nothing was considered more holy than the covenant of marriage, and to portray it in such a way was completely unacceptable ; however, a few more open-minded critics such as the Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw found Ibsen's willingness to examine society without prejudice exhilarating.

George Bernard Shaw called Chaplin " the only genius to come out of the movie industry ".

Sarandon appeared in The Rothschilds and The Two Gentlemen of Verona on Broadway, as well making regular appearances at numerous Shakespeare and George Bernard Shaw festivals in the United States and Canada.

Dublin has a world famous literary history, having produced many prominent literary figures, including Nobel laureates William Butler Yeats, George Bernard Shaw and Samuel Beckett.

It went on to provide a breakthrough for some of the city's most famous writers, such as Synge, Yeats himself and George Bernard Shaw.

A point of interest is that it is probably Daniel Jones ( and not as is often thought Henry Sweet ) who provided George Bernard Shaw with the basis for his fictional character Henry Higgins in " Pygmalion ".

* Shaw v Chesterton: a Debate between George Bernard Shaw and G. K. Chesterton.

Writer George Bernard Shaw claimed to have read the complete 9th edition — except for the science articles — and Richard Evelyn Byrd took the Britannica as reading material for his five-month stay at the South Pole in 1934, while Philip Beaver read it during a sailing expedition.

At its peak of popularity eugenics was supported by a wide variety of prominent people, including Winston Churchill, Margaret Sanger, Marie Stopes, H. G. Wells, Theodore Roosevelt, George Bernard Shaw, John Maynard Keynes, John Harvey Kellogg, Linus Pauling and Sidney Webb.

He was " the creator of ... that cage which is the theatre of Shakespeare's Othello, Racine's Phèdre, of Ibsen and Strindberg ," in which "... imprisoned men and women destroy each other by the intensity of their loves and hates ", and yet he was also the literary ancestor of comic dramatists as diverse as Menander and George Bernard Shaw.

The portrait of George Bernard Shaw located at Niagara-on-the-Lake was commissioned by hotelier Si Wai Lai and sculpted by Dr. Elizabeth Bradford Holbrook, CM ( 1913 – 2009 ).

* The Selected Prose of Bernard Shaw ( 1952 ).

* Shaw on Shakespeare: An Anthology of Bernard Shaw's Writings ( 1961 )

* London Music in 1888 – 89 as Heard by Corno di Bassetto ( later known as Bernard Shaw ) with Some Further Autobiographical Particulars, 1937.

* Shaw's Music: The Complete Musical Criticism Of Bernard Shaw.

* Shaw v. Chesterton, a debate between George Bernard Shaw and G. K. Chesterton ( 2000 ) Third Way Publications Ltd. ISBN 0-9535077-7-7.

" George Bernard Shaw ".

" Dear Mr Shaw Selections from Bernard Shaw's postbag " Bloomsbury, 1987 ISBN 0-7475-0256-0.

* Gibbs, A. M. " Bernard Shaw, A Life ".

Bernard G. Campbellin wrote: " That Gigantopithecus is in fact extinct has been questioned by those who believe it survives as the Yeti of the Himalayas and the Sasquatch of the north-west American coast.

Bernard d ' Espagnat a French theoretical physicist best known for his work on the nature of reality wrote a paper titled The Quantum Theory and Reality according to the paper: " The doctrine that the world is made up of objects whose existence is independent of human consciousness turns out to be in conflict with quantum mechanics and with facts established by experiment.

Thomas Bernard, who later became Bishop of Killaloe, wrote in his verses on Reynolds:

Bernard spoke and wrote persuasively on their behalf, and in 1129 at the Council of Troyes the Order was officially endorsed by the Church.

Art historian Bernard Berenson wrote in 1896: " Leonardo is the one artist of whom it may be said with perfect literalness: Nothing that he touched but turned into a thing of eternal beauty.

Bernard of Clairvaux wrote to Honorius asking him to intervene on behalf of both men and support church independence over the claims of royal jurisdiction and interference.

Although this incurred the wrath of Bernard of Clairvaux, who wrote to Honorius expressing his disgust, Honorius pressured Stephen of Senlis to become reconciled with King Louis in 1130.

" William of Tyre's comments may seem rather patronizing to a modern audience, wrote professor Bernard Hamilton of the University of Nottingham ; however, this was a great show of respect from a society and culture in which women were regarded as having fewer rights and less authority than their brothers, fathers, and even sons.

Lucius was supported by Bernard of Clairvaux, who also wrote to Conrad, asking for him to intervene.

George Bernard Shaw wrote that Gilbert, who had earlier adapted Offenbach's Les brigands, drew on that work also for his new libretto.

George Bernard Shaw wrote, " No man will ever write a better tragedy than Lear ".

: Q: The great writer George Bernard Shaw once wrote, ' It's such a wonderful thing, what a crime to waste it on children.

Cryptozoologist Bernard Heuvelmans wrote, " Since each animal has its own parasites, this indicated that the host animal is equally an unknown animal.

Harris also wrote short stories and novels, two books on Shakespeare, a series of biographical sketches in five volumes under the title Contemporary Portraits and biographies of his friends Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw.

As Bernard Levin wrote in The Sunday Times: "... demonstrating once more that she is a comic actress of consummate skill, perhaps the very best we have.

" Indeed, in 1998, after researching the Pulitzer Prize for Music, music critic Kyle Gann wrote that the awards panel often included " the same seven names over and over as judges ": Gunther Schuller, Joseph Schwantner, Jacob Druckman ( now deceased ), George Perle, John Harbison, Mario Davidovsky, and Bernard Rands.

In Britain's Best Sitcom, Bernard Ingham says that he wrote it ; other sources give Thatcher sole credit, while Michael Cockerell says that she wrote it with Ingham's help.

Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery wrote in 1947:

As for other Twilight Zone episodes, Bernard Herrmann — also composer of the first season's main title music and most of its stock music — wrote the music for this one.

Ian Bernard wrote the opening theme music, plus the infamous " What's the news across the nation " number.

Ian Bernard also wrote all the cute musical " play-ons " that introduced comedy sketches like Lilly Tomlin's little girl character who sat in a giant rocking chair, and Arte Johnson's old man who always got hit with a purse.

Author Bernard Lefkowitz wrote about the incident in the 1997 book Our Guys: The Glen Ridge Rape and the Secret Life of the Perfect Suburb.

As sewage, industrial wastewater and urban runoff flowed freely into the river from the surrounding city, the Charles River became well known for its high level of pollutants, gaining such notoriety that by 1955, Bernard DeVoto wrote in Harper's Magazine that the Charles was " foul and noisome, polluted by offal and industrious wastes, scummy with oil, unlikely to be mistaken for water.