English: Dame Barbara Cartland (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Henry Peach Robinson – 1830 – Photographer
“No departure from the truth of nature shall be discovered by the closest scrutiny.”
Franz Boas – 1858 – Scientist
“If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present.”
Don Herold – 1889 – Writer
“Don’t ever slam a door, you might want to go back.”
Dorothy Thompson – 1893 – Journalist
“Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.”
Barbara Cartland – 1901 – Novelist
“After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.”
Minor White – 1908 – Photographer
“Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.”
Mervyn Peake – 1911 – Writer
“Each day I live in a glass room unless I break it with the thrusting of my senses and pass through the splintered walls to the great landscape.”
John Archibald Wheeler – 1911 – Physicist
“In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.”
Roberto Goizueta – 1932 – Businessman
“Once you lose everything, what’s the worst that’s going to happen to you? You develop a self-assurance.”
Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense of the United States. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Donald Rumsfeld – 1932 – Politician
“If you try to please everybody, somebody’s not going to like it.”
Michael Graves – 1934 – Architect
“I don’t care what people call me, labels have the negative value of making smaller boundaries for people.”
June Jordan – 1936 – Writer
“In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself in a really deep serious way.”
David Hockney – 1937 – Artist
“Always live in the ugliest house on the street and then you don’t have to look at it.”
Dean Koontz – 1945 – Author
“Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.”
O. J. Simpson – 1947 – Athlete (Orenthal James Simpson)
“Money takes wings. The only thing that endures is character.”
Nigel Lythgoe – 1949 – Director
“It takes two to make a relationship, but only one to screw it up.”
John Tesh – 1952 – Musician
“A lot of people are willing to pray or to put in work, but they’re not willing to take true risks.”
Kevin O’Leary – 1954 – Businessman
“Don’t cry over money, it never cries for you.”
Jimmy Smits – 1955 – Actor
“Celebrity hits like a bomb.”
Lindsey Graham – 1955 – Politician
“It’s one thing to shoot yourself in the foot. Just don’t reload the gun.”
Tom Hanks – 1956 – Actor
“If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great.”
Marc Almond – 1957 – Musician
“I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don’t have the distractions I had when I was younger.”
Kelly McGillis – 1957 – Actress
“Life is a journey and it’s about growing and changing and coming to terms with who and what you are and loving who and what you are.”
Paul Merton – 1957 – Comedian
“The thing about improvisation is that it’s not about what you say. It’s listening to what other people say. It’s about what you hear.”
Courtney Love – 1964 – Musician
“I’m not a woman. I’m a force of nature.”
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