A woman met a famous author at a literary tea.

A medieval account credited Athanasius of Alexandria, the famous defender of Nicene theology, as the author of the Creed.

The first written reference is found in a book by the Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes, who is most famous for writing Don Quixote.

He is well known as an author and scholar, and his most famous work, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum ( The Ecclesiastical History of the English People ) gained him the title " The Father of English History ".

Cyril Northcote Parkinson ( 30 July 1909 – 9 March 1993 ) was a British naval historian and author of some sixty books, the most famous of which was his bestseller Parkinson's Law, which led him to be also considered as an important scholar within the field of public administration.

Edward Bellamy ( March 26, 1850 – May 22, 1898 ) was an American author and socialist, most famous for his utopian novel, Looking Backward, a Rip Van Winkle-like tale set in the distant future of the year 2000.

Famous authors of the city include Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Muriel Spark, author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, James Hogg, author of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Ian Rankin, author of the Inspector Rebus series of crime thrillers, J. K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, who began her first book in an Edinburgh coffee shop, Adam Smith, economist, born in Kirkcaldy, and author of The Wealth of Nations, Sir Walter Scott, the author of famous titles such as Rob Roy, Ivanhoe and Heart of Midlothian, Robert Louis Stevenson, creator of Treasure Island, Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting.

The immensely famous Letters of a Portuguese Nun ( Lettres portugaises ) ( 1669 ) generally attributed to Gabriel-Joseph de La Vergne, comte de Guilleragues, though a small minority still regard Marianna Alcoforado as the author, is claimed to be intended to be part of a miscellany of Guilleragues prose and poetry.

Eusebius, a learned man and famous author, enjoyed the favour of the Emperor Constantine.

Raymond Chandler, who debuted as a novelist with The Big Sleep in 1939, soon became the most famous author of the hardboiled school.

During the classic era, his work, either as author or screenwriter, was the basis for seven films now widely regarded as film noirs, including three of the most famous: High Sierra ( 1941 ), This Gun for Hire ( 1942 ), and The Asphalt Jungle ( 1950 ).

The Irish author grew up in the famous Republican stronghold of the Creggan Estate, Derry, Northern Ireland, at the height of the troubles and was a schoolboy witness to the tragic events of Bloody Sunday, 30 January 1972.

The most famous fictional grimoire is the Necronomicon, a creation of the author H. P. Lovecraft.

His most famous work, the De re metallica libri xii long remained a standard work, and marks its author as one of the most accomplished chemists of his time.

During the next two decades, the most famous author of gothic literature in Germany was polymath E. T. A. Hoffmann.

People primarily known for their contributions to the consciousness of the programmer subculture of hackers include Richard Stallman, the founder of the free software movement and the GNU project, president of the Free Software Foundation and author of the famous Emacs text editor as well as the GNU Compiler Collection ( GCC ), and Eric S. Raymond, one of the founders of the Open Source Initiative and writer of the famous text The Cathedral and the Bazaar and many other essays, maintainer of the Jargon File ( which was previously maintained by Guy L. Steele, Jr .).

Probably the most famous Irishman ever to reside in Mexico is the Wexfordman William Lamport, better known to most Mexicans as Guillen de Lampart, precursor of the Independence movement and author of the first proclamation of independence in the New World.

The Talmud tells many stories about the Messiah, some of which represent famous Talmudic rabbis as receiving personal visitations from Elijah the Prophet and the Messiah.

As Plato tells it, the heckler hails from the small island of Seriphus ; Themistocles retorts that it is true that he would not have been famous if he had come from that small island, but that the heckler would not have been famous either if he had been born in Athens.

Filomena tells this story, one of the most famous in the Decameron, and the basis of John Keats ' narrative poem Isabella, or the Pot of Basil.

More recently, Washington Irving's famous 1819 story " Rip Van Winkle " tells of a man named Rip Van Winkle who takes a nap on a mountain and wakes up 20 years in the future, when he has been forgotten, his wife dead, and his daughter grown up.

The town of Ferrara was also the setting of the famous film The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Vittorio De Sica in ( 1970 ), that tells the vicissitudes of a rich Jewish family during the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini and World War II.

The most famous story attached to this version of Fionn tells of how one day, while sucking his magic thumb ( which allows him to see anything going on anywhere ), Finn sees that the giant Cuhullin ( or, in the Manx version, a buggane ) is coming to fight him.

Deep Purple's famous song " Smoke on the Water " tells of the events of 1971, when a Frank Zappa fan with a flare gun set the Montreux Casino on fire.

The Bible also tells of Gog and Magog, who later entered into European folklore, and of the famous battle between David and the Philistine giant Goliath.

Professor Davies tells us that Gerald, whom he calls " an admirable story-teller ", is the only source for some of the most famous of the Welsh folk tales including the declaration of the old man of Pencader to Henry II which concludes Descriptio Cambriae: " This nation, O King, may now, as in former times, be harassed, and in a great measure weakened and destroyed by your and other powers, and it will also prevail by its laudable exertions, but it can never be totally subdued through the wrath of man, unless the wrath of God shall concur.

The book tells the ( fictional ) story of the rise to fame of Dan Weir (' Weird '), a bass guitar player in a rock and roll band called Frozen Gold, and of his struggles to be happy now that he is rich and famous.

Plato in his dialogue The Statesman tells a " famous tale " that " the sun and the stars once rose in the west, and set in the east, and that the god reversed their motion, and gave them that which they now have as a testimony to the right of Atreus.

An example of this is the chapter The Town Ho's Story from Herman Melville's famous novel Moby-Dick, which tells a fully formed story of an exciting mutiny.

In " The Final Problem ", Watson tells Holmes he has never heard of Moriarty, while in The Valley of Fear, set earlier on, Watson already knows of him as " the famous scientific criminal ".

Then, as his popularity starts to wane, the agent tells him that he needs to perform a miracle in order to stay famous.

A famous anecdote of Malcolm X's life tells of a teacher who discouraged Malcolm of his dream of becoming a lawyer because of his race.

The story tells of the capture of Prince Igor and son Vladimir of Russia by Polovtsian leader Khan Konchak, who entertains his prisoners lavishly and calls on his slaves to perform the famous Polovtsian dances, which provide a thrilling climax to the second act.

While its origins are disputed, it is " clearly of foreign derivation .... Gifford, in a note in his edition of Ben Jonson, tells us that ' Pimlico is sometimes spoken of as a person, and may not improbably have been the master of a house once famous for ale of a particular description.

The town is famous for the folk tale of the Pied Piper of Hamelin (), a medieval story that tells of a tragedy that befell the town in the thirteenth century.

Cat Ballou is a 1965 comedy / Western film which tells the story of a woman who hires a famous gunman to protect her father's ranch, and later to avenge his murder, but finds that the man she hires is not what she expected.

A famous Sanskrit verse tells us that “ our present is the result of all our yesterdays, and the future depends on how well we live today .” This sums up the relationship between Rahu and Ketu.

José Enrique Rodó tells us in his famous essay Ariel that Cleanthes, while performing his night work, sculpted in rocks teachings from Zeno.

The Talmud tells many stories about the Messiah, some of which represent famous Talmudic rabbis as receiving personal visitations from Elijah the Prophet and the Messiah.

Mike Caro coined the famous poker tells " Weak means Strong " and " Strong means Weak ", meaning that players will try to fool other players by acting the opposite way of the true strength of their poker hand.

Abijah then rallied his own troops with a phrase which has since become famous: " Jehovah ( God ) himself is with us for a captain ( commander of the army ).

Its Preface is world famous and has been used in many studies of the creative process as a signal instance in which a poem has come to us directly from the unconscious.

There is also a famous scene in which Reg gives a revolutionary speech asking, " What have the Romans ever done for us?

This poll also featured two of the film's other famous lines (" What have the Romans ever done for us?

During the height of the Roman Empire, famous historians such as Polybius, Livy and Plutarch documented the rise of the Roman Republic, and the organization and histories of other nations, while statesmen like Julius Caesar, Cicero and others provided us with examples of the politics of the republic and Rome's empire and wars.

The best-known figure on Cook's mission, Joseph Banks ,< ref > Extract from Lapérouse's journal: I here must witness my recognition of Sir Joseph Banks, who, having realised that Monsieur de Monneron could not find an inclining compass in London, wished to lend us those that had served the famous captain Cook.

Abijah then rallied his own troops with a phrase which has since become famous: " Jehovah ( God ) himself is with us for a captain ( commander of the army ).

One of her famous quotes is: Let us love dogs, let us love only dogs!

Let us now praise famous men

Interestingly, Kaprow claimed that " some of us will become famous, and we will have proven once again that the only success occurred when there was a lack of it ".

It was taken from the final phrase of Winston Churchill's first speech to the House of Commons as Prime Minister-his famous " Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat " speech-in which he said " Come, then, let us go forward together ".

“ But the peculiar joy of Galway is that it covers the artistic waterfront without, like its famous Scottish sister, ( Edinburgh ), offering us a deluge.

One of his famous sayings was: “ Let us create a world without war ( sensõ naki sekai ) together with the world-humanity ( sekai jinrui ).”

After Rossbach, Madame de Pompadour is alleged to have comforted the king saying this now famous by-word: " au reste, après nous, le Déluge " (" Besides, after us, the Deluge ").

On the steps of Sproul Hall Mario Savio gave a famous speech: "... But we're a bunch of raw materials that don't mean to be-have any process upon us.

To collect and arrange facts is, as he tells us, the sole secret of his success, and he adds in other words the famous apophthegm of Newton, " hypotheses non fingo.

His coffin was carried next to a monument where his famous quote is written: " For us there was no land beyond ( the ) Volga ".

Thence came to us in the 2nd century the famous Peshitta, or Syriac translation of the Old Testament ; also Tatian's Diatessaron, which was compiled about 172 and in common use until St. Rabbula, Bishop of Edessa ( 412-435 ), forbade its use.

The 1841 book contains his famous quote: " Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die, But leave us still our old Nobility!