Edgar Guest (1881–1959) American writer
Source: A Heap o' Livin' (1916), A Song, opening lines, p. 34.
Source: Manuscript Found in Accra
Edgar Guest (1881–1959) American writer
Source: A Heap o' Livin' (1916), A Song, opening lines, p. 34.
T. B. Joshua (1963) Nigerian Christian leader
On destiny - "The Shock Of Reality" http://allafrica.com/stories/200908240244.html All Africa (August 24 2009)
“You know the good ole days weren't always good,
And tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems.”
Billy Joel (1949) American singer-songwriter and pianist
Keeping the Faith.
Song lyrics, An Innocent Man (1983)
Benedict Cumberbatch (1976) English actor and film producer
Sometimes it doesn’t fit with the cast or the energy of the scene or the beat of another character. But to sit down in the audience and go: “Oh my God, I think that was what I intended”, was great. <br class="br"> "Benedict Cumberbatch: ‘I loved not being a people-pleaser’" in The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/dec/17/benedict-cumberbatch-i-loved-not-being-a-people-pleaser (17 December 2021)
Thomas Mann (1875–1955) German novelist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate
Source: The Beloved Returns (1939), Ch. 7
Context: Hold fast the time! Guard it, watch over it, every hour, every minute! Unregarded it slips away, like a lizard, smooth, slippery, faithless, a pixy wife. Hold every moment sacred. Give each clarity and meaning, each the weight of thine awareness, each its true and due fulfillment.
Sidney Sheldon (1917–2007) American writer
Source: The Sky is Falling
Billy Joel (1949) American singer-songwriter and pianist
Keeping the Faith.
Song lyrics, An Innocent Man (1983)
“Each lost day has its patron saint!”
Bret Harte (1836–1902) American author and poet
East and West Poems, Part I, The Galeon.