Quote Queen

John Quincy Adams portrait. “John Quincy Adams”. Metropolitan Museum of Art . . Retrieved September 4, 2009 . (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

John Quincy Adams – 1767 – 6th President of the United States

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

John Wanamaker – 1838 – Businessman

“People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.”

E. B. White – 1899 – Author (Elwyn Brooks White)

“Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half the people are right more than half the time.”

Harry von Zell – 1906 – Actor

“Radio is the most intimate and socially personal medium in the world.”

Yul Brynner – 1915- Actor (Yuliy Borisovich Briner)

“Now that I’m gone, I tell you, don’t smoke.”

Brett Somers – 1924 – Actress

“I had to give up martinis – I enjoyed them too much.”

Frederick Buechner – 1926 – Clergyman

“You can’t be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he’ll take hold of and spend the rest of his life remembering you by.”

Tab Hunter – 1931 – Actor (Arthur Andrew Kelm)

“People believe what they want to believe.”

Giorgio Armani – 1934 – Designer

“To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail.”

Cropped screenshot of Yul Brynner as Ramses from the trailer for the film The Ten Commandments. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Howard Gardner – 1943 – Psychologist

“Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader’s toolkit.”

Ed Markey – 1946 – Politician

“Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.”

Leon Spinks – 1953 – Athlete

“Opportunity knocks only once.  You never know if you’ll get another opportunity.”

Johann Lamont – 1957 – Politician

“Schools are not exam factories for the rat race.”

Jhumpa Lahiri – 1967 – Author

“The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace.”

Michael Rosenbaum – 1972 – Actor

“With all the horror in the world and all the crap that’s going on, for an hour and a half you go eat some popcorn and laugh with you friends.  That’s what a movie is all about!”

Kevin Powers – 1980 – Writer

“I’m always most interested in writing about things that I don’t understand.”

Photograph of Camille Pissarro (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

John Calvin – 1509 – Theologian

“The torture of bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.”

William Blackstone – 1723 – Judge

“It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.”

Arthur Helps – 1813 – Historian

“Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.”

Camille Pissarro – 1830 – Artist

“Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.”

Nikola Tesla – 1856 – Inventor

“The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly.  One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.”

Finley Peter Dunne – 1867 – Journalist

“Trust everybody, but cut the cards.”

Marcel Proust – 1871 – Novelist

“All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.”

Edmund Cherihew Bentley – 1875 – Journalist

“The art of biography is different from geography.  Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.”

Mary McLeod Bethume – 1875 – Educator

Marcel Proust – entschwundene Zeit (Photo credit: Ines Seidel)

“Without faith, nothing is possible.  With it, nothing is impossible.”

Carl Orff – 1895 – Composer

“Tell me, I forget, show me, I remember, involve me, I understand.”

William Dampier – 1908 – Explorer

“The world is apt to judge of everything by success; whoever has ill fortune will hardly be allowed a good name.”

Owen Chamberlain – 1920 – Scientist

“Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before.”

David Brinkley – 1920 – Journalist

“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”

Harvey Ball – 1921 – Celebrity

“I made a circle with a smile for a mouth on yellow paper, because it was sunshiny and bright.”

Jean Kerr – 1922 – Author and Playwright (Bridget Jean Collins)

“Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn’t permanent.”

Alice Munro – 1931 – Writer

“Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories – and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.”

Ronnie James Dio – 1942 – Musician

“The best subjects are always people, who never fail to amaze me by their unpredictability.”

Arthur Ashe – 1943 – Athlete

“One important key to success is self-confidence.  An important key to self-confidence is preparation.”

Arlo Guthrie – 1947 – Musician

“I’d rather have friends who care than friends who agree with me.”

Seth Godin – 1960 – Writer

“Dig your well before you’re thirsty.”

Adrian Grenier – 1976 – Actor

“It’s enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back.”

Jessica Simpson – 1980 – Musician

“People always say that pregnant women have a glow.  And I say it’s because you’re sweating to death.”

Karen Russell – 1981 – Novelist

“For me, writing is a parenthesis where I can make sense of life.”

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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Jean de La Fontaine – 1621 – Poet

“Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.”

Joseph Chamberlain – 1836 – Politician

“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities – because it is the quality which guarantees all others.”

John D. Rockefeller, Sr. – 1839 – Oil Magnate and Philanthropist

“Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.”

Kathe Kollwitz – 1867 – Artist

“Look at life with the eyes of a child.”

Vincent McNabb – 1868 – Clergyman

“Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking.”

Philip Johnson – 1906 – Architect

“All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.”

Nelson A. Rockefeller – 1908 – United States Vice President

“The secret to success is to own nothing, but control everything.”

Walter Kerr – 1913 – Critic

“Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.”

Elisabeth Kubler – Ross – 1926 – Psychologist

“People are like stained-glass windows.  They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.”

Jerry Vale – 1932 – Musician

English: Nelson A. Rockefeller. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“Whiskey is by far the most popular of all remedies that won’t cure a cold.”

Marty Feldman – 1933 – Comedian

“The pen is mightier than the sword, and is considerably easier to write with.”

Phil Gramm – 1942 – Politician

“The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.”

Faye Wattleton – 1943 – Sociologist

“The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.”

Wolfgang Puck – 1949 – Chef

“A good chef has to be a manager, a businessman, and a great cook.  To marry all three together is sometimes difficult.”

Anjelica Huston – 1951 – Actress

“Where there is age there is evolution, where there is life there is growth.”

Tony Kaye – 1952 – Director

“Everything that happens is meant to be.  It’s meant to happen like that.  But sometimes you don’t know at the time that it’s meant to be disaster.”

Marianne Williamson – 1952 – Author

“The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.”

Anna Quindlen – 1953 – Journalist

“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”

Kevin Bacon – 1958 – Actor

“Things could be worse.  You remember that, and you go on with your life.”

Allison McGhee – 1960 – Author

“Walk slowly; all you can ever come to is yourself.”

Toby Keith – 1961 – Musician

“Don’t compromise even if it hurts to be yourself.”

Milo Ventimiglia – 1977 – Actor

“Enjoy every moment.”

Sophia Bush – 1982 – Actress

“When you realize who the good people are in your life, you’re so lucky.”

English: George Cukor (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Gustav Mahler – 1860 – Composer

“Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested.  So let us not be idle.”

Thomas Brooks – 1880 – Politician

“The best way to do ourselves good is to be doing good to others; the best way to gather is to scatter.”

Leon Feuchtwanger – 1884 – Novelist

“Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission.”

Marc Chagall – 1887 – Artist

“All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.”

George Cukor – 1899 – Producer

“You can’t have any successes unless you can accept failure.”

Satchel Paige – 1906 – Baseball Player

“Age is mind over matter.  If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”

Robert A. Heinlein – 1907 – Writer

“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”

Gian Carlo Menotti – 1911 – Composer

“A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.”

Margaret Walker – 1915 – Poet

“Friends and good manners will carry you where money won’t go.”

Pierre Cardin – 1922 – Designer

Gian Carlo Menotti, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1944 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“I have a name, I have to take advantage of it.”

David Eddings – 1931 – Author

“The unfortunate thing about working for yourself is that you have the worst boss in the world.  I work every day of the year except at Christmas, when I work a half day.”

David McCullough – 1933 – Historian

“Every book is a new journey.  I never felt I was an expert on a subject as I embarked on a project.”

Ringo Starr – 1940 – Musician

“I get by with a little help from my friends.”

Dick Armey – 1940 – Politician

“Three groups spend other people’s money:  children, thieves, politicians.  All three need supervision.”

Joel Siegel – 1943 – Critic

“If you fight back and get hit, it hurts a little while; if you don’t fight back it hurts forever.”

Shelley Duvall – 1949 – Actress

“Take events in your life seriously, take work seriously, but don’t take yourself seriously, or you’ll become affected, pompous and boring.”

Ben Linder – 1959 – Celebrity

“Anything you can do needs to be done, so pick up the tool of your choice and get started.”

Eric Jerome Dickey – 1961 – Author

“It’s impossible to explain creativity.  It’s like asking a bird, ‘How do you fly?’  You just do.”

John Leonard – 1965 – Poet

“It takes a long time to grow an old friend.”

Amy Carlson – 1968 – Actress

“When people have an inner sense of confidence, they’re more beautiful.”

Jeff Vandermeer – 1968 – Writer

“History has shown us all too often consequences of dreaming poorly or not at all.”

Joe Sakic – 1969 – Athlete

“I’m leaving the game of hockey with nothing but good memories.”

Lisa Leslie – 1971 – Athlete

“Everyone talks about age, but it’s not about age.  It’s about work ethic.  Winning never gets old.”

Hamish Linklater – 1976 – Actor

“I invested all my money in debt.”

Frida Kahlo, Self-Portrait, 1940. See discussion of her works below. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

John Paul Jones – 1747 – Soldier

“If fear is cultivated, it will become stronger; if faith is cultivated, it will achieve mastery.”

Roger Babson – 1875 – Educator

“The successful man is the one who had the chance and took it!”

Marc Bloch – 1886 – Historian

“The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale.  He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies.”

Hanns Eisler – 1898 – Composer

“Someone who knows only music, understands nothing about it.”

Frida Kahlo – 1907 – Mexican Painter

“I never paint dreams or nightmares.  I paint my own reality.”

Nancy Reagan – 1921 – 2nd Wife of President Ronald Reagan (Anne Frances Robbins)

“A woman is like a teabag – only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.”

Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan aboard an American boat in California, 1964. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Merv Griffin – 1925 – Entertainer

“If you make the customer a promise … make sure you deliver it.”

Neal A. Maxwell – 1926 – Clergyman

“Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.”

Janet Leigh – 1927 – Actress

“In order to dream, you need to have a springboard which is the facts … It gives it that touch of reality, and I think that’s quite important … truth with fiction.”

Della Reese – 1931 – Musician

“So whatever it is you want, need, or desire or just like to have, you better try to get it now, ’cause this is the only time there is.”

Dalai Lama – 1935 – Leader

“Be kind whenever possible.  It is always possible.”

Ned Beatty – 1937 – Actor

“It always impresses me when a person of small stature has command.”

Bessie Head – 1937 – Writer

“Love is mutually feeding each other, not one living on another like a ghoul.”

George W. Bush – 1946 – 43rd President of the United States

“I have a different vision of leadership.  A leader is someone who brings people together.”

Sylvester Stallone – 1946 – Actor

“I believe there’s an inner power that makes winners or losers.  And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.”

Hilary Mantel – 1952 – Writer

“A novel should be a book of questions, not a book of answers.”

Nanci Griffith – 1953 – Musician

“Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else’s house.”

Pau Gasol – 1980 – Athlete

“It doesn’t matter who gets what.  It’s just a matter of doing what it takes to win.”

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P. T. Barnum – 1810 – Entertainer

“Whatever you do, do it with all your might.  Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.”

Mandell Creighton – 1843 – Historian

“No people do so much harm as those who go about doing good.”

William Thomas Stead – 1849 – Journalist

“It is in the power of every individual to do that which the community as a whole is powerless to effect.”

Wanda Landowska – 1879 – Musician

“I never practice; I always play.”

Hazrat Inayat Khan – 1882 – Clergyman

“The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.”

Jean Cocteau – 1889 – French Poet and Novelist

“We must believe in luck.  For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like.”

Frederick Lewis Allen – 1890 – Editor

“Everything is more complicated than it looks to most people.”

Marcel Achard – 1899 – Playwright

“Women like silent men,  They think they’re listening.”

Julie Nixon Eisenhower, daughter of former President Richard Nixon, present the Nixon Center Distinguished Service Award to Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates during a dinner in his honor in Washington, D.C. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Joan Welsh – 1927 – Educator

“Influence is what you think you have until you try to use it.”

Shirley Knight – 1936 – Actress

“Men are allowed to get older and women are not.”

Julie Nixon Eisenhower – 1948 – Daughter of President Richard Nixon

“All leaders share something in common.  They feel they are the only ones who can do the job.”

Bill Watterson – 1958 – Cartoonist

“Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.”

Susan Wojcicki – 1968 – Businesswomen

“Work smart.  Get things done.”

Chuck Klosterman – 1972 – Critic

“Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they’re honest about everything.”

Dave Haywood – 1982 – Musician

“That’s country music for you – bourbon and the Bible.”

Christian Furchtegott Gellert – 1715- Poet

“Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying.”

Nathaniel Hawthorne – 1804 – Novelist

“Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”

Calvin Coolidge – 1872 – 30th President of the United States

“I have never been hurt by what I have not said.”

Louis B. Mayer – 1882 – Film Mogul

“Be smart, but never show it.”

Rube Goldberg – 1883 – Cartoonist

Ann Landers and me (Photo credit: Alan Light)

“I, I don’t think anybody’s continually happy, uh, except idiots, you know, you know, you have to have little moments of depression.”

Gloria Stuart – 1910 – Actress

“A woman’s heart is a deep ocean of secrets.”

Mitch Miller – 1911 – Musician

“Keep it simple, keep it sexy, keep it sad.”

Abigail Van Buren – 1918 – Journalist (Dear Abby)

“There are two kinds of people in the world:  those who walk into a room and say, ‘There you are,’ and those who say, ‘Here I am.'”

Ann Landers – 1918 – Journalist

“Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.”

Leona Helmsley – 1920 – Businesswoman

“Only little people pay taxes.”

Gina Lollobrigida – 1927 – Actress

“A woman at 20 is like ice, at 30 she is warm and at 40 she is hot.”

Neil Simon – 1927 – Playwright

“Money bring some happiness.  But after a certain point, it just bring more money.”

Al Davis – 1929 – Businessman

“You don’t adjust.  You just dominate.”

Chuck Tanner – 1929 – Athlete

“There are three secrets to managing.  The first secret is have patience.  The second is be patient.  And the third most important secret is patience.”

George Steinbrenner – 1930 – Businessman

Geraldo Rivera (Photo credit: nick step)

“Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing.  Breathing first, winning next.”

Richard Petty – 1937 – Athlete

“No one wants to quit when he’s losing and no one wants to quit when he’s winning.”

Bill Withers – 1938 – Musician

“I feel that it is healthier to look out at the world through a window than through a mirror, otherwise, all you see is yourself and whatever is behind you.”

Geraldo Rivera – 1943 – Journalist

“Never take a job where winter winds can blow up your pants.”

Victoria Abril – 1959 – Actress

“Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!”

Elie Saab – 1964 – Designer

“If I hadn’t been a determined person I wouldn’t have succeeded in life.”

Melaine Fiona – 1983 – Musician

“Surround yourself with positive people.”

Portrait recadré de Giorgio Vasari (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Giorgio Vasari – 1511 – Artist

“Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands.”

Edward Young – 1683 – Poet

“Those who build beneath the stars build too low.”

George Leonard – 1729 – Lawyer

“Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you’ll be sick.”

Sidney Webb – 1859 – Scientist

“The inevitability of gradualness cannot fail to be appreciated.”

Charlotte Perkins Gilman – 1860 – Writer

“To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.”

English: Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Franz Kafka – 1883 – Novelist

“By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it.  The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.”

Ernst Fischer – 1899 – Writer

“As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.”

John Mason Brown – 1900 – Critic

“A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.”

M. R. K. Fisher – 1908 – Writer

“Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken.”

Earl Butz – 1909 – Public Servant

“The difference was you worked for Nixon, and with Ford.”

Dorothy Kilgallen – 1913 – Actress

“I think sometimes it is more important to be gracious than to win.”

Jack Schmitt – 1935 – Astronaut

“It’s like trying to describe what you feel when you’re standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon or remembering your first love or the birth of your first child.  You have to be there to really know what it’s like.”

Tom Stoppard – 1937 – Dramatist

“A healthy attitude is contagious but don’t wait to catch it from others.  Be a carrier.”

Gloria Allred – 1941 – Lawyer

“The more I know about men the more I like dogs.”

Betty Buckley – 1947 – Actress

“I was hugely relieved to discover there was a purpose for girls with loud voices.”

Dave Barry – 1947 – Journalist

“You can only be young once.  But you can always be immature.”

Elizabeth Edwards – 1949 – Lawyer

“Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before.”

Julie Burchill – 1959 – Journalist

“Gluttony and idleness are two of life’s great joys, but they are not honourable.”

Tom Cruise – 1962 – Actor

“Talk is overrated as a means of settling disputes.”

Joanne Harris – 1964 – Author

“A little tantrum in real life seems so much bigger online.”

Sandra Lee – 1966 – Author

“Give yourself permission to get the most out of your life.”

Kevin Hart – 1980 – Actor

“I think if someone gets kicked in the face it is their fault – they watched the foot come towards their face.”

Olivia Munn – 1980 – Actress

“Everyone’s so timid and afraid to insult anybody, but in the end, it’s like we’re all trying to please everyone.  In the end, we please no one.”

Sebastian Vettel – 1987 – Driver

“Sometimes you need to press pause to let everything sink in.”

Polski: Thurgood Marshall (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Richard H. Stoddard – 1825 – Critic

“We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.”

Herman Hesse – 1877 – Author

“If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.”

Thurgood Marshall – 1908 – Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court

“Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men’s minds.”

Wislawa Szymborska – 1923 – Poet

“All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.”

Ahmad Jamal – 1930 – Musician

“The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people are gonna say about your life and your work.”

Dave Thomas – 1932 – Businessman

“I think the harder your work, the more luck you have.”

Ferdinand Mount – 1939 – Writer

“One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.”

Ron Silver – 1946 – Author

“Anyone who devotes time and attention to what makes people tick, to me, is a smart person.”

Larry David – 1947 – Actor

“When you’re not concerned with succeeding – you can work with complete freedom.”

portrait astronaut Linda Godwin (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Linda M. Godwin – 1952 – Astronaut

“The training comes to us with the benefits of what has gone before.”

Jerry Hall – 1956 – Model

“I think if I weren’t so beautiful, maybe, I’d have more character.”

Jenni Rivera – 1969 – Musician

“I can’t get caught up in the negative because that destroys you.”

Amy Weber – 1972 – Actress

“My philosophy has always been, ‘do what you love and the money will follow.'”

Ashley Tisdale – 1985 – Actress

“Don’t let anyone, or any rejection, keep you from what you want.”

Lindsay Lohan – 1986 – Actress

“My motto is:  Live every day to the fullest – in moderation.”