— Greg Mortenson, Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan
— Anne Frank victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary 1929 - 1945
— Vera Rubin American astronomer 1928 - 2016
As quoted in Jewish Women's Archive https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/rubin-vera-cooper
— Miyamoto Musashi Japanese martial artist, writer, artist 1585 - 1645
— Frank Herbert American writer 1920 - 1986
Context: A man is a fool not to put everything he has, at any given moment, into what he is creating. You're there now doing the thing on paper. You're not killing the goose, you're just producing an egg. So I don't worry about inspiration, or anything like that. It's a matter of just sitting down and working. I have never had the problem of a writing block. I've heard about it. I've felt reluctant to write on some days, for whole weeks, or sometimes even longer. I'd much rather go fishing, for example, or go sharpen pencils, or go swimming, or what not. But, later, coming back and reading what I have produced, I am unable to detect the difference between what came easily and when I had to sit down and say, 'Well, now it's writing time and now I'll write.' There's no difference on paper between the two.
As quoted in Shoptalk: learning to write with writers (1990), edited by Donald Morison Murray<!-- Cook Publishers -->
— Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell senior officer of the British Army 1883 - 1950
In Praise of Infantry, The London Times, Thursday, 19 April 1945.
— Marc Chagall French artist and painter 1887 - 1985
— Alan Turing British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist 1912 - 1954
— Rosalind Franklin British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer 1920 - 1958
in answer to her father, who accused her of making science her religion, as related by
— Haile Selassie Emperor of Ethiopia 1892 - 1975
On the Nomination of Archbishop Basilios (19 January 1951).
— Albert Schweitzer French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosopher 1875 - 1965
— Elliot Rodger American spree killer 1991 - 2014
— Anton LaVey Founder of the Church of Satan, author of the Satanic Bible 1930 - 1997
As quoted in the Introduction by Burton H. Wolfe
— Anton LaVey Founder of the Church of Satan, author of the Satanic Bible 1930 - 1997
Context: It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful.
— Heath Ledger Australian actor 1979 - 2008
Quoted in Variety (December 2005).
— Heath Ledger Australian actor 1979 - 2008
As quoted in an interview in Vanity Fair (August 2000).
