Quotations
| Aaron Burr American statesman Alan Greenspan Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Alfred Eisenstaedt US Photographer, 1898 - 1995 Alfred Lord Tennyson Poet, famously wrote the Charge of the Light Brigade Andy Warhol Artist Babe Ruth American baseball player Barry Lopez American author, 1945+ Bob Marley Famous musician, 1945+ Carl Sandburg Author and poet, 1878 - 1967 Carole Lombard Arguably the finest comedienne throughout the 30s and into the early 40s Colleen Haskell Actress Colley Cibber Lived 1671 - 1757, English playwright Dalai Lama Tibetan Buddhist religious leader (1935+) Dick Fosbury High jumper, inventor of the Fosbury Flop Ethan Hawke Actor Gabrielle Reece Model George Clooney Started off in American drama ER then moved into films George W Bush American President Geri Halliwell Ginger Spice-UN Ambassador-Yoga Queen Harold Ross American writer Ira Gershwin Songwriter Isaiah Berlin British philosopher Jane Addams American sociologist, 1860-1935 Joey Adams American comedian and author John Paul Jones American admiral John Singleton Filmmaker Joyce Kilmer American poet Kahlil Gibran Lebanese writer and painter, 1883-1931 Le Corbusier French architect Loretta Young Actress Lou Holtz American football coach, 1937+ | Louis Nizer American lawyer, 1902 - 1994 Lowell Thomas US broadcast journalist Lucille Ball American actress Lynn Fontanne American actress Maria Shriver Journalist, 1955+ Marilu Henner Actress Marion Barry American politician Marissa Miller Model Michael Burke US baseball coach, 1916+ Nancy Reagan Wife of ex American President Ronald Reagan Nathan Hale American revolutionary, 1755-76 Nigella Lawson British celebrity chef Orson Welles Lived 1915 - 1985, Actor and writer Paul Daniels Aged magician, married to the wonderful Debbie McGee Peter Buck US musician, 1956+ Pierre Corneille French playwright Rabindranath Tagore Bengali poet and philosopher, 1861 - 1941 Randall Jarrell American poet, 1914-65 Ronald Reagan Ex-American President Rowan Atkinson Comedian, better known as Mr Bean and for Blackadder Sally Field 1946+, US actress Sam Rayburn US politician, 1882-1961 Sigmund Freud Austrian psychiatrist 1856-1939 Steven Wright Comedian Sylvester Stallone American actor Terry Venables Ex-England manager, commentator and general wheeler dealer Thomas Mann German novelist 1875-1955 Tom Brokaw US journalist, 1940+ Tony Blair Former British Prime Minister, who started promisingly but whose abiding legacy after his ten years of leadership was probably going to War in Iraq. The day he resigned as Prime Minister he also gave up being an MP (never having liked the House of Commons or Britain anyway hence spending most of his time as leader abroad or covering foreign matters) and was appointed, perhaps ironically, a peace envoy Zsa Zsa Gabor Hungarian born actress married nine times! |