Rudolf Nureyev (1938–1993) Soviet ballet dancer and choreographer
Source: Gervaso, Roberto. La mosca al naso, Rizzoli Editore (1980)
Man in the Modern Age (1933), p. 146
Rudolf Nureyev (1938–1993) Soviet ballet dancer and choreographer
Source: Gervaso, Roberto. La mosca al naso, Rizzoli Editore (1980)
Golo Mann (1909–1994) German historian
Golo Mann in his Recollections, quoted in: Marcel Reich-Ranicki (1989), Thomas Mann and his family, p. 187.
Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …
Source: Existentialism Is a Humanism (1946), p. 28
“A man never knows what a fool he is until he hears himself imitated by one.”
Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1852–1917) English actor and theatre manager
Quoted by Max Beerbohm in Hebert Beerbohm Tree: Some Memories of Him and of His Art Collected by Max Beerbohm http://books.google.com/books?id=wM08AAAAIAAJ&q="A+man+never+knows+what+a+fool+he+is+until+he+hears+himself+imitated+by+one"&pg=PA312#v=onepage (1920).
“What is a highbrow? He is a man who has found something more interesting than women.”
Edgar Wallace (1875–1932) British crime writer, journalist and playwright
New York Times, 24 January 1932, sec.8, p. 6
Andrei Tarkovsky (1932–1986) Soviet and Russian film-maker, writer, film editor, film theorist, theatre and opera director
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
Source: The Doctrine of the Mean