English: Cardinal de Richelieu (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Cardinal de Richelieu – 1585 – Clergyman
“Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.”
Richard Chenevix Trench – 1807 – Clergyman
“Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.”
Leo Tolstoy – 1828 – Novelist
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
Mary Austin – 1868 – Writer
“People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker.”
Ralph Hodgson – 1871 – Poet
“The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery.”
James Agate – 1877 – Critic
“My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.”
John Hall Wheelock – 1886 – Poet
“The job of an editor in a publishing house is the dullest, hardest, most exciting, exasperating and rewarding of perhaps any job in the world.”
Kurt Lewin – 1890 – Psychologist
“A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.”
Colonel Sanders – 1890 – Businessman (Harlan Sanders)
“There’s no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can’t do any business from there.”
Arthur Freed – 1894 – Producer
“Don’t try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough.”
Beverley Nichols – 1898 – Writer
“Marriage – a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.”
James Hilton – 1900 – Novelist
“If you forgive people enough you belong to them, and they to you, whether either person likes it or not, squatter’s rights of the heart.”
Joseph E. Levine – 1905 – Producer
Leo Tolstoy 1848 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.”
Cesare Pavese – 1908 – Poet
“We do not remember days, we remember moments.”
Cliff Robertson – 1923 – Actor
“Show business is like a bumpy bus ride. Sometimes you find yourself temporarily juggled out of your seat and holding onto a strap. But the main idea is to hang in there and not be shoved out the door.”
Russell M. Nelson – 1924 – Clergyman
“Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority.”
Sol Le Witt – 1928 – Artist
“You shouldn’t be a prisoner of your own ideas.”
Michael Novak – 1933 – Philosopher
“Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.”
Joe Theismann – 1949 – Athlete
“No matter how great you are, the next great one is already sitting there waiting to take your place.”
Tom Wopat – 1951 – Actor
“When you’re doing the traditional musicals, singing songs that are 40 and 50 years old, you realize there’s a reason why those musicals are hits. These are amazing songs.”
Michael Keaton – 1951 – Actor
“There comes a point in your life when you realize how quickly time goes by, and how quickly it has gone. Then it really speeds up exponentially. With that, I think you start to put a lot of things into context; you start to see how huge the world is, and really, the universe.”
Angela Cartwright – 1952 – Actress
“My shadow in my art is one way I trace who I was and where I have been. My shadow and I have been on a journey for quite a while now.”
Alisher Usmanov – 1953 – Businessman
“I have been very fortunate to be successful in business, and I believe that it is right that people who have this type of wealth should give something back into society.”
John Kricfalusi – 1955 – Artist
“All artists get better with age. The more you draw, the better you’re going to get.”
Mario Batali – 1960 – Chef
“If you want your kids to listen to you, don’t yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids taught me that. And I do it with adults now.”
Hugh Grant – 1960 – Actor
“But I just know from experience that accent wise, even if you’re an accent genius, crossing the Atlantic is the hardest thing in the world either way.”
Aleksander Hemon – 1964 – Writer
“I resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel. I’m not a novelist, I’m a writer.”
Adam Sandler – 1966- Actor
“My name is Adam Sandler. I’m not particularly talented, I’m not particularly good-looking. And yet I’m a multi-millionaire.”
Akshay Kumar – 1967 – Actor
“It takes two hands to clap! I cannot be solely blamed for what happened in my relationships! If things soured, it happened because of both parties. Not just me!”
Rachel Hunter – 1969 – Model
“All you need is a bad angle and suddenly you’re 30 pounds overweight.”
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