“The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.”
“I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.”
| Hiam Abbass, Actress (1960) |
| Clay Aiken, Musician (1978) |
| Jacques Barzun, Educator (1907) |
| Nelsan Ellis, Actor (1977) |
| Bill Halter, Politician (1960) |
| Billy Idol, Musician (1955) |
| Bo Jackson, Athlete (1962) |
| Laurent Jalabert, Athlete (1968) |
| Tayari Jones, Author (1970) |
| Mark Twain, Author (1835) |
| Kathy Acker, Activist (1997) |
| Charles Adams, Activist (1800) |
| Guy Debord, Writer (1994) |
| Mary Harris Jones, Activist (1930) |
| Mother Jones, Activist (1930) |
| Patrick Kavanagh, Poet (1967) |
| Elizabeth Kenny, Celebrity (1952) |