William Butler Yeats (1865 – 1939), Irish poet and dramatist (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Fanny Burney – 1752 – Novelist
“I cannot sleep – great joy is as restless as great sorrow.”
William Butler Yeats – 1865 – Poet
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
Fernando Pessoa – 1888 – Author
“No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.”
Basil Rathbone – 1892 – Actor
“Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart.”
Dorothy L. Sayers – 1893 – Author
“I always have a quotation for everything – it saves original thinking.”
Jacques-Henri Lartigue – 1894 – Photographer
“Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.”
Mark Van Doren – 1894 – Poet
“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.”
Paavo Nurmi – 1897 – Athlete
Eleanor Holmes Norton (Photo credit: KCIvey)
“All that I am, I am because of my mind.”
Harold Grange – 1903 – Athlete
“If you can’t explain it, how can you take credit for it?”
Eleanor Holmes Norton – 1937 – Politician
“There is no reason to repeat bad history.”
Malcolm McDowell – 1943 – Actor
“Let’s not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just entertaining people.”
Laura Kightlinger – 1969 – Comedian
“I have to find work wherever it might be hiding.”
Jennifer Yuh Nelson – 1972 – Director
“Talking to actors is the same as talking to any other artists; it’s getting into the moment for them, and making sure they can lose themselves in the performance.”
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