Gustave flaubert (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Mary Astell – 1666 – Writer
“Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best.”
Erasmus Darwin – 1731 – Scientist
“A fool is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.”
John Jay – 1745 – Judge
“No power on earth has a right to take out property from us without our consent.”
Anna Seward – 1747 – Writer
“Let me be content with being happy, without sighing that I am not distinguished.”
Henry Wells – 1805 – Businessman
“Westward, ever westward.”
William Lloyd Garrison – 1805 – Journalist
“I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice . . . I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.”
Gustave Flaubert – 1821 – Novelist
“Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.”
Frederick Sawyer – 1822 – Senator
“A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing.”
Edward G. Robinson – 1893 – Actor
“I know I’m not much on face value, but when it comes to stage value, I’ll deliver for you.”
Lillian Smith – 1897 – Novelist
“Faith and doubt both are needed – not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.”
Howard E. Koch – 1901 – Playwright
“You can be a good neighbor only if you have good neighbors.”
Frank Sinatra – 1915 – Singer
“The best revenge is massive success.”
Dan DeCarlo – 1919 – Cartoonist
“What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener.”
Bob Barker – 1923 – Entertainer
“Many people have the idea that game shows are easy to come up with. And nothing could be further from the truth.”
Ed Koch – 1924 – Politician
“If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot’s at the other end.”
- English: Publicity still of actor Edward G. Robinson. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Helen Frankenthaler – 1928 – Artist
“One really beautiful wrist motion, that is synchronized with your head and heart, and you have it. It looks as if it were born in a minute.”
John Osborne – 1929 – Playwright
“Don’t clap too hard – it’s a very old building.”
Dionne Warwick – 1940 – Singer
“Crying is cleansing. There’s a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.”
Tracy Kidder – 1945 – Author
“You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.”
Emerson Fittipaldi – 1946 – Race Car Driver
“You are going in one second the length of a football field. That means your brain is receiving information from your body what the car is doing physically, bumping, balance, performance.”
Tom Wilkinson – 1948 – Actor
“All good actors are easy to work with. It’s the once that aren’t very good who tend to be very difficult.”
Cathy Rigby – 1952 – Athlete and Entertainer
“An athlete learns how to hold her breath, but that doesn’t work in singing. You have to learn to relax.”
Will Carling – 1965 – Athlete
“Success in management and success in sport are derived from the same basic principles.”
Jennifer Connelly – 1970 – Actress
“I don’t always like my own behavior. I haven’t known anyone who is perfect all the time.”
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