English: Gloria Swanson, James Abbe’s photo, 1921 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Jean Ingelow – 1820 – Poet
“A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.”
Stephen Samuel Wise – 1874 – Clergyman
“Vision looks inward and becomes duty. Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration. Vision looks upward and becomes faith.”
Gloria Swanson – 1899 – Actress
“Nobody gets anything for nothing.”
Alfred Newman – 1900 – Composer
“We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons.”
Bobby Jones – 1902 – Athlete
“Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course … the space between your ears.”
Nat King Cole – 1919 – Musician
“People don’t slip. Time catches up with them.”
James Irwin – 1930 – Astronaut
“The Earth reminded us of a Christmas tree ornament hanging in the blackness of space. As we got farther and farther away it diminished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful marble you can imagine.”
Penelope Lively – 1933 – Author
“The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters; the novel is such a wonderfully flexible form.”
Rudolf Nureyev – 1938 – Dancer
“Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration.”
William Gibson – 1948 – Writer
“The future has already arrived. It’s just not evenly distributed yet.”
Portrait of Nat King Cole, New York, N.Y. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Patrick Duffy – 1949 – Actor
“I’m an inherently happy person. It comes from inside, which means you can achieve happiness under any circumstances.”
Kurt Russell – 1951 – Actor
“I wasn’t really serious about acting – I was serious about baseball.”
Gary Sinise – 1955 – Actor
“You’ve got to keep taking certain risks, because my priority is in acting, it’s not in movie stardom.”
Rob Lowe – 1964 – Actor
“Show me someone who doesn’t have some sort of experience that they would be uncomfortable for people to know about and I’ll show you a dullard.”
Alexander McQueen – 1969 – Designer
“Fashion should be a form of escapism, not a form of imprisonment.”
Mia Hamm – 1972 – Athlete
“The person who said winning isn’t everything never won anything.”
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