Robert Bloomfield – 1766 – Poet
“Strange to the world, he wore a bashful look, The fields his study, Nature was his book.”
Rowland Hill – 1795 – Inventor
“We can do more good by being good, than in any other way.”
Gamaliel Bailey – 1807 – Journalist
“Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use.”
Ellen Swallow Richards – 1842 – Scientist
“If you keep your feathers well oiled, the water of criticism will run off as from a duck’s back.”
Joseph Conrad – 1857 – Novelist
“Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.”
Anna Freud – 1895 – Psychologist
“If some longing goes unmet, don’t be astonished. We call that Life.”
Kate O’Brien – 1897 – Novelist
“A laugh is a terrible weapon.”
John Backus – 1924 – Scientist
“You need the willingness to fail all the time.”
Andy Williams – 1927 – Musician
“We teach about how to drive in school, but not how to manage finances.”
Jean-Luc Godard – 1930 – Director
“Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.”
Craig Raine – 1944 – Poet
“Great writers arrive among us like new diseases threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible.”
Ozzy Osbourne – 1948 – Musician
“To be a liar, you’ve got to have a great memory, and I don’t have a memory.”
Michael Musto – 1955 – Writer
“In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted.”
Daryl Hannah – 1960 – Actress
“It’s not necessary to go far and wide. I mean, you can really find exciting and inspiring things within your hometown.”
Julianne Moore – 1960 – Actress
“Comedy is ridiculously hard. And if the rhythm is not right, if the music or the line is not right, it’s not funny.”
Francesca Lia Block – 1962 – Author
“Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It’s neurological. To me, this is a kind of magic.”
Marco Tempest – 1964 – Entertainer
“One of the key qualities of all stories is that they are made to be shared.”
Katarina Witt – 1965 – Athlete
“Almost nothing is presented to you on a silver platter. You have to really work for it.”
Brendan Fraser – 1968 – Actor
“I don’t believe that wishing works. I think we get the things we work for.”
Holly Marie Combs – 1973 – Actress
“Your faith in yourself is all you will ever have. Don’t let anyone take it away from you, ever.”