Brian W. Aldiss (1925–2017) British science fiction author
Let's Be Frank (1957)
Context: It was extraordinary to be in two places at once, doing two different things — extraordinary, but not confusing. He merely had two bodies which were as integrated as his two hands had been.
“The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.”
Jimmy Johnson (1928) American Chicago blues guitarist and singer
B.K.S. Iyengar (1918–2014) Indian yoga teacher and scholar
Silvia Prescott, in: "My teacher, Mr Iyengar: a former pupil remembers the yoga master"
“You are not mean. Cranky is different.”
Peter S. Beagle (1939) American writer
Source: In Calabria (2017), p. 119
Michael Pollan (1955) American author, journalist, activist, and professor of journalism
Source: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
Jean Vanier (1928–2019) Canadian humanitarian
Google this: Jean Vanier and what it means to be human http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-briggs/google-this-jean-vanier-a_b_7484702.html Huffington Post, 02/06/2015 <br class="br">From interviews and talks <br class="br">Source: Community And Growth
Enoch Powell (1912–1998) British politician
When asked by David Frost if he were a racialist (3 January 1969), from Simon Heffer, Like the Roman. The Life of Enoch Powell (Phoenix, 1999), p. 504.
1960s
William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer
No. 191
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)
Mikhail Baryshnikov (1948) Soviet-American dancer, choreographer, and actor born in Letonia, Soviet Union
As quoted in "Profile: The Soloist", reprinted in Life Stories: Profiles from The New Yorker https://books.google.com/books?id=KDhjzXAjyUMC&pg=PA66, p. 66.
