Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
Quoted in Writers at Work 1st Series by Malcolm Cowley (1958)
“Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.”
As quoted in Foundations of Democracy: A Series of Debates (1939) by Thomas Vernor Smith and Robert Alphonso Taft, p. 10
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Ted Williams (1918–2002) American professional baseball player
My Turn at Bat : The Story of My Life (1970), p. 7
Variant: All I want out of life is that when I walk down the street folks will say, "There goes the greatest hitter that ever lived".
Samuel Romilly (1757–1818) British politician
Quoted in Memoir of William Wilberforce, Thomas Price (Boston: Light & Stearns, 1836), pages 59–60. https://ia902609.us.archive.org/5/items/memoirwilliamwi00pricgoog/memoirwilliamwi00pricgoog.pdf <br class="br">Slave Trade Bill speech (1807)
“The greatest man of action is he who is the greatest, and a life-long, dreamer.”
Louis Sullivan (1856–1924) American architect
Education (1902)
Context: He who knows naught of dreaming can, likewise, never attain the heights of power and possibility in persuading the mind to act.
He who dreams not creates not.
For vapor must arise in the air before the rain can fall.
The greatest man of action is he who is the greatest, and a life-long, dreamer. For in him the dreamer is fortified against destruction by a far-seeing eye, a virile mind, a strong will, a robust courage.
And so has perished the kindly dreamer — on the cross or in the garret.
A democracy should not let its dreamers perish. They are its life, its guaranty against decay.
Thus would I expand the sympathies of youth.
Thus would I liberate and discipline all the constructive faculties of the mind and encourage true insight, true expression, real individuality.
Thus would I concentrate the powers of will.
Thus would I shape character.
Thus would I make good citizens.
And thus would I lay the foundations for a generation of real architects — real, because true, men, and dreamers in action.
“We are described into corners, and then we must describe ourselves out of corners.”
Salman Rushdie (1947) British Indian novelist and essayist
“The U. S. is the greatest, best country God has ever given man on the face of the earth.”
Sean Hannity (1961) American television host, conservative political commentator
Hannity's America (6 June 2008) http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/174546/june-19-2008/sean-hannity-loves-america
Giacomo Casanova (1725–1798) Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice
"History of My Life" Chapter 17
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Douglas Adams book The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Source: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Patrick Moore (1923–2012) English writer, broadcaster and astronomer
As quoted on the official website http://www.rbwm.gov.uk/web/libraries_local_history_figures.htm#William_Herschel of the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead.