Agatha Christie (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Marco Polo – 1254 – Explorer
“I have not told half of what I saw.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld – 1613 – Writer
“A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.”
Karl Philipp Moritz – 1756 – Author
“It is a common observation, that the more solicitous any people are about dress, the more effeminate they are.”
James F. Cooper – 1789 – Novelist
“Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.”
William Howard Taft – 1857 – 27th President of the United States
“No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.”
Bruno Walter – 1876 – Composer
“Napoleon is dead – but Beethoven lives.”
Claude McKay – 1889 – Writer
“If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything.”
Dame Agatha Christie – 1890 – Author
“An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have: the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.”
Robert Benchley – 1889 – Humorist and Actor
“It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.”
Roy Acuff – 1903 – Musician
“My health is good; it’s my age that’s bad.”
Fay Wray – 1907 – Actress
“Only in your imagination can you revise.”
Fawn M. Brodie – 1915- Author
“Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.”
Nipsey Russell – 1918 – Comedian
“I start with the joke line and write backward.”
Jackie Cooper – 1922 – Actor
“If it’s boring, then it’s tiring.”
Bobby Short – 1924 – Musician
“But life is tough and if you’re creative, it’s tougher.”
Murray Gell-Mann – 1929 – Physicist
“Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm.”
Gaylord Perry – 1938 – Athlete
“The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round.”
Merlin Olsen – 1940 – Athlete
“One of life’s most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn’t do our homework, that we are not prepared.”
Norman Spinrad – 1940 – Author
“I’m not gifted, but I’m not hopeless.”
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro – 1942 – Writer
“Storylines are how characters create the plots involved in their stories.”
Jessye Norman – 1945 – Musician
“A person has the right, and I think the responsibility, to develop all of their talents.”
Tommy Lee Jones – 1946 – Actor
“Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They’re underused.”
Oliver Stone – 1946 – Director
“Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.”
English: Chimamanda Adichie (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Dan Marino – 1961 – Athlete
“I don’t need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – 1977 – Writer
“Successful fiction does not need to be validated by ‘real life’; I cringe whenever a writer is asked how much of a novel is ‘real’.”
Prince Harry – 1984 – British Royalty
“You’ve got to give something back. You can’t just sit there.”
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