Fats Waller, three-quarter length portrait, seated at piano, facing front / World Telegram & Sun photo by Alan Fisher. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Alexander Pope – 1688 – Poet
“Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.”
Elizabeth Fry – 1780 – Clergywoman
“Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.”
Henri Rousseau – 1844 – Artist
“Excuse my scribbling, it is late, and I have a poor candle.”
Armand Hammer – 1898 – Businessman
“When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.”
Fats Waller – 1904 – Musician (Thomas Wright Waller)
“If you don’t know what it is, don’t mess with it.”
Harold Robbins – 1916 – Author
“I won’t leave any unfinished manuscript.”
Raymond Burr – 1917 – Actor
“Try and live your life the way you wish other people would live theirs.”
Andrei Sakharov – 1921 – Physicist
“Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit.”
David Smith – 1930 – Educator
“The big question society will have to answer is whether it wants computers thinking like humans.”
Mary Robinson – 1944 – Stateswoman
Cropped screenshot of Raymond Burr from the film Please Murder Me. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“In a society where the rights and potential of woman are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power, but he will not have freedom.”
Richard Hatch – 1946 – Actor
“Whatever you determine to be true in the subconscious becomes true for you.”
Al Franken – 1951 – Comedian
“Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.”
Marc Ribot – 1954 – Musician
“Good is the director who lets you do what you have to do.”
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