Caucher Birkar (1978) Kurdish mathematician
"An innovator who brings order to an infinitude of equations" Quanta Magazine (2018)
Caucher Birkar (1978) Kurdish mathematician
"An innovator who brings order to an infinitude of equations" Quanta Magazine (2018)
Sukirti Kandpal (1987) Indian actress
Sukirti Kandpal on #WorldBookDay http://www.tellychakkar.com/tv/features/worldbookday-tv-celebs-and-their-love-reading-150423/
Juan Ramón Jimenéz (1881–1958) Spanish poet
"A NOTE TO THOSE GROWNUPS WHO MIGHT READ THIS BOOK TO CHILDREN", as translated by Antonio T. de Nicolas (1985), p. xv.
Platero and I (1917)
“I read stuff. Books are not my only friends, but we’re friendly. So there.”
Maria Dahvana Headley (1977) American writer
Source: Magonia
“The best parts of this book grow out of poems and song lyrics.”
Comment on the scene in which Baoyu meets Hsiao-hung for the second time in chapter 25, as reported and quoted in Enchantment and Disenchantment: Love and Illusion in Chinese Literature by Wai-yee Li (Princeton University Press, 1993), footnote on p. 168
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Books
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
John Wesley (1703–1791) Christian theologian
Journal (12 February 1772) after reading Some historical accounts of Guinea by Anthony Benezet
General sources