Cropped screenshot of Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart, from the trailer for the film To Have and Have Not. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Henry St. John – 1678 – Politician
“Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.”
Nathan Meyer Rothschild – 1777 – Businessman
“We are like the mechanism of a watch: each part is essential.”
James J. Hill – 1838 – Businessman
“Most men who have really lived have had, in some share, their great adventure. This railway is mine.”
Ricardo Flores Magon – 1874 – Journalist
“We are free, truly free, when we don’t need to rent our arms to anybody in order to be able to lift a piece of bread to our mouths.”
Lewis Hine – 1874 – Photographer
“If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn’t need to lug around a camera.”
James Cash Penney – 1875 – Businessman
“Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.”
Alfred Noyes – 1880 – Poet
“The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas.”
Clive Bell – 1881 – Critic
“Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class.”
Karen Horney – 1885 – Psychologist
“The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.”
Nadia Boulanger – 1887 – Musician
“Loving a child doesn’t mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring our the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.”
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi – 1893 – Scientist
“Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.”
Allen Funt – 1914- Celebrity
Ed Begley, Jr. at the 81st Academy Awards (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“When people are smiling they are most receptive to almost anything you want to teach them.”
Frank Butler – 1916 – Journalist
“A golf course is nothing but a pool room moved outdoors.”
Laurence J. Peter – 1919 – Scientist
“Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents’ shortcomings.”
Lauren Bacall – 1924 – Actress (Betty Jean Perske)
“Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.”
Charlie Byrd – 1925 – Musician
“A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.”
B. B. King – 1925 – Musician (Riley B. King)
“The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.”
Peter Falk – 1927 – Actor
“Usually, I get hired because I’m tall.”
George Chakiris – 1934 – Dancer
“No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.”
Elgin Baylor – 1934 – Athlete
“Coaching is easy. Winning is the hard part.”
Ed Begley, Jr. – 1949 – Actor
“One of the regular intervals of meditation in my life, believe it or not, is in my car.”
David Copperfield – 1956 – Illusionist
“I’m just waiting for people to start asking me to make the rain disappear.”
Orel Hershiser – 1958 – Athlete
“No matter how noble and special people want to make the playoffs out to be . . . it’s a crapshoot.”
Trisha Yearwood – 1964 – Musician
“What’s meant to be will always find a way.”
Marc Anthony – 1969 – Musician
“If you do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life.”
Kristy Coventry – 1983 – Athlete
“It is much harder to retain your position at the top than to get to the top.”
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