Philippe Quinault (Photo credit: Stifts- och landsbiblioteket i Skara)
Philippe Quinault – 1635 – Dramatist
“It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary.”
James Hutton – 1726 – Scientist
“What more can we require? Nothing but time.”
William Hone – 1780 – Writer
“A good lather is half the shave.”
Richard Cobden – 1804 – Businessman
“For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap.”
Jefferson Finis Davis – 1808 – U.S. Statesman and Soldier
“Never be haughty to the humble or humble to the haughty.”
Raoul Dufy – 1877 – Artist
“I don’t follow any system. All the laws you can lay down are only so many props to be cast aside when the hour of creation arrives.”
Alfred Korzybski – 1879 – Scientist
“There are two ways to slice easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.”
English: Alfred Korzybski, Polish philosopher and scientist. Polski: Alfred Korzybski, inżynier, filozof, matematyk (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Josephine Baker – 1906 (Freda Josephine McDonald) – Dancer and Entertainer
“Beautiful? It’s all a question of luck. I was born with good legs. As for the rest…beautiful, no. Amusing, yes.”
Tony Curtis – 1925 (Bernard Schwartz) – Actor
“I enlisted when I was a boy. The Navy looked after me like my mother. It fed me, took care of me and gave me wonderful opportunities.”
Allen Ginsberg – 1926 – Poet
“Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.”
Chuck Barris – 1929 – Television Producer
“Spontaneity is such an entertaining facet of show business.”
Howard Simons – 1929 – Editor
“People who are funny and smart and return phone calls get much better press than people who are just funny and smart.”
Larry McMurtry – 1936 – Writer, Bookseller, and Academic
“Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.”
Ian Hunter – 1939 – Musician
“I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators.”
Curtis Mayfield – 1942 – Rhythm and Blues Singer and Songwriter
“Our purpose is to educate as well as to entertain.”
Hale Irwin – 1945 – Athlete
“If you’re not just a bit nervous before a match, you probably don’t have the expectations of yourself that you should have.”
John Dykstra – 1947 – Scientist
“If you can imagine it, we can make it.”
Silas Robertson – 1948 – Celebrity
“America, everybody is in too big a rush. Lay back, take a sip of tea, mow a little grass. Then if you get tired, take a nap.”
Anderson Cooper – 1967 – Journalist
“Anyone who has experienced a certain amount of loss in their life has empathy for those who have experienced loss.”
Katie Hoff – 1989 – Athlete
“I can just put my head down and train hard.”
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