English: John Pierpont “Jack” Morgan Jr. New York City (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
John Ford – 1586 – Dramatist
“You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.”
J. P. Morgan – 1837 – Businessman (John Pierpont Morgan)
“A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.”
David Grayson – 1870 – Journalist
“A large volume of adventure may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.”
Artur Schnabel – 1882 – Musician
“I don’t think I handle the notes much differently from other pianists. But the pauses between the notes – ah, there is where the artistry lies.”
Isak Dinesen – 1885 – Writer
“The cure for anything is salt water: Sweat, tears or the sea.”
Thorton Wilder – 1897 – Writer
“When you’re safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you’re having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.”
George Seaton – 1911- Playwright
“Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.”
William Holden – 1918 – Actor
“Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn’t want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know; your bank account of knowledge is much richer.”
Chavela Vargas – 1919 – Musician
“I am a friend of life, at 80 life tells me to behave like a woman and not like an old woman.”
Harry Reasoner – 1923 – Journalist
“If you’re a good journalist, what you do is live a lot of things vicariously, and report them for other people who want to live vicariously.”
Lindsay Anderson – 1923 – Director
“Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.”
Cynthia Ozick – 1928 – Writer
“After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.”
Chris Barber – 1930 – Musician
“A frisky spirit makes my trombone sing.”
Artur Schnabel, about 1906 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Ferdinand Piech – 1937 – Designer
“If you fire people, you fire customers.”
Boomer Esiason – 1961 – Athlete (Norman Julius Esiason)
“There’s always something to talk about.”
Jennifer Garner – 1972 – Actress
“Beauty comes from a life well lived. If you’ve lived well, your smile lines are in the right places, and your frown lines aren’t too bad. What more do you need?”
Victoria Beckham – 1974 – Singer and Author
“I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out.”
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