Vincent Voiture (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Vincent Voiture – 1597 = Poet
“Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us.”
Samuel Lover – 1797 – Artist
“Circumstances are the rules of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.”
George William Curtis – 1824 – Author
“Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.”
Winslow Homer – 1836 – Artist
“The sun will not rise or set without my notice, and thanks.”
Chester W. Nimitz – 1885 – Admiral in United States Navy
“A ship is always referred to as ‘she’ because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.”
Mary Ellen Chase – 1887 – Educator
“Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.”
Zachary Scott – 1914 – Actor
“As you grow older, you’ll find the only things you regret are the things you didn’t do.”
Ralph Erskine – 1914 – Architect
“The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them, not make them worse.”
Steven Hill – 1922 – Actor
“Every day I have a most embarrassing moment.”
Michael Harrington – 1928 – Writer
Chester W. Nimitz (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known.”
Philip Knight – 1938 – Businessman
“The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.”
Terry Semel – 1943 – Businessman
“There is nothing to be embarrassed about being profitable.”
Jerry Nachman – 1946 – Journalist
“I didn’t miss the rat race, but I kinda missed the rats.”
Edward James Olmos – 1947 – Actor
“Education is the vaccine for violence.”
Sid Meier – 1954 – Scientist
“Our approach to making games is to find the fun first and then use the technology to enhance the fun.”
Steve Jobs – 1955 – Businessman
“Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.”
Paula Zahn – 1956 – TV New Anchor
“I’m a mother, I’m a journalist, I’m an American; I’m all of those things, and it really complicates your job when you have all these things come into play.”
Michelle Shocked – 1962 – Musician
“I’m a perfectionist, which I think is a mistake.”
Mitch Hedberg – 1968 – Comedian
“A waffle is like a pancake with a syrup trap.”
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