Elmore Leonard signs a copy of his new book, Road Dogs (Photo credit: Ann Arbor District Library)
Arthur Phillip – 1738 – Soldier
“There are few things more pleasing than the contemplation of order and useful arrangement.”
Henry J. Heinz – 1844 – Businessman
“To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success.”
Charles Wilson – 1882 – Public Servant
“Character . . . is a habit, the daily choice of right over wrong; it is a moral quality which grows to maturity in peace and is not suddenly developed on the outbreak of war.”
Eleanor Roosevelt – 1884 – First Lady – Wife of President Franklin Roosevelt
“We need not fear any isms if our democracy is achieving the ends for which it was established.”
Francois Mauriac – 1885 – Novelist
“To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.”
Roman Jakobson – 1896 – Scientist
“When I speak it is in order to be heard.”
Charles Revson – 1906 – Businessman
“If you can’t change your fate, change your attitude.”
Art Blakey – 1919 – Musician
“Music washes away the dust of every day life.”
Elmore Leonard – 1925 – Novelist
“I try to leave out the parts readers skip.”
Daryl Hall – 1946 – Musician
“If you work hard and you’re good, you can build something for yourself.”
Jim Woodring – 1952 – Artist
“People aren’t interested in seeing themselves as they really are.”
Dawn French – 1957 – Comedian
“I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it.”
Richard Paul Evans – 1962 – Author
“Don’t try to write what other people are writing – write what is true to you.”
Anne Enright – 1962 – Author
“I love the characters not knowing everything and the reader knowing more than them. There’s more mischief in that and more room for seriousness, too.”
Joan Cusack – 1962 – Actress
“I think that everything’s hard now anyways, so you might as well do stuff that you love and believe in.”
Michelle Wie (Photo credit: Keith Allison)
Luke Perry – 1966 – Actor
“Growing up in the Midwest, people don’t drive Porsches and Ferraris. They drive Fords and Chevys. And so even if you have the opportunity to buy a more expensive car, it doesn’t occur to you because it’s not what you relate to.”
Michelle Wie – 1989 – Athlete
“I’m kind of in between a goody-goody and a rebel. I’m not bad, but I’m not good either. I’m a little crazy.”
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