John Ross Macduff (1818–1895) Scottish religious writer
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 66.
Statement on the TV station Antenne 2 (6 May 1987)
John Ross Macduff (1818–1895) Scottish religious writer
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 66.
“Through them [his paintings] I breathe again.”
Clyfford Still (1904–1980) American artist
Clyfford Still (1950) as quoted in Abstract Expressionism, Davind Anfam, Thames and Hudson Ltd London, 1990, p. 145 : Statement for his 1950 show about his paintings
1950s
Henry Miller book Sexus
Context: A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment. No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in....
The Rosy Crucifixion I : Sexus (1949), Chapter 1. (New York: Grove Press, c1965, p. 17-18)
“I'm sweating scotch out of every pore in my body.”
Ron White (1956) American comedian
You Can't Fix Stupid
“There is nothing wrong with God's plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.”
Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867–1957) American children's writer, diarist, and journalist
Source: Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder: On Wisdom and Virtues
“The question was put to him, what hope is; and his answer was, "The dream of a waking man."”
Diogenes Laërtius (180–240) biographer of ancient Greek philosophers
Aristotle, 9.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 5: The Peripatetics
Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921)
Speech in Cleveland http://books.google.com/books?id=o3j10P6YFZIC&pg=PA1090&dq=%22nation's+honor+is+dearer+than+the+nation's+comfort%22 (January 1916) <br class="br">1910s
Aaron Copland (1900–1990) American composer, composition teacher, writer, and conductor
Aaron Copland and His World, ISBN 9780691124704.