English: Image of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. From The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and The Vision of Sir Launfal (by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and James Russell Lowell}, collected by H. G. Hall and Edward Everett Hale. Published by Sampson Low, 1906. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge – 1772 – Poet
“Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.”
Alphonse de Lamartine – 1790 – Poet
“There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.”
Alfred Nobel – 1833 – Chemist and Industrialist
“If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.”
Will Carleton – 1845 – Poet
“If there’s a heaven upon the earth, a fellow knows it when he’s been away from home a week, and then gets back again.”
Ted Shawn – 1891 – Dancer
“Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.”
Leo Burnett – 1891 – Businessman
“When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won’t come up with a handful of mud either.”
Paul Brunton – 1898 – Philosopher
“Worry is spiritual short sight. Its cure is intelligent faith.”
Patrick Kavanagh – 1904 – Poet
“What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.”
Dizzy Gillespie – 1917 – Jazz Trumpeter (John Birks Gillespie)
“It’s taken me all my life to learn what not to play.”
Malcolm Arnold – 1921 – Composer
“Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.”
Whitey Ford – 1928 – Athlete (Edward Charles Ford)
“The way to make coaches think you’re in shape in the spring is to get a tan.”
Ursula K. Le Guin – 1929 – Writer
“Love doesn’t just sit there like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.”
Français : Le trompettiste américain de jazz Dizzy Gillespie en concert à Deauville (Normandie, France) le 20 juillet 1991. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Natalia Makarova – 1940 – Dancer
“To look back all the time is boring. Excitement lies in tomorrow.”
Mary Pipher – 1947 – Psychologist
“Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.”
Carrie Fisher – 1956 – Actress
“There is no point at which you can say, ‘Well, I’m successful now. I might as well take a nap.'”
Julian Cope – 1957 – Musician
“I realize myself that hate wastes a lot of time and energy and I would rather re-direct any energy that I have to good and positive use.”
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