It's becoming clearer and clearer to me that the world is there to be celebrated by writers, and in fact this is what all the good ones do, and that the great fashion for gloom and grimness was in fact a false path that certain writers took, I think in response to the horrors of the first half of th
When I perform Strauss, it is as if the music fits me like a glove. My voice seems to lie in a happy area in this music, which is lyrical and passionate at the same time.
James Truslow Adams, Historian (1878) |
Frank Carlucci, Politician (1930) |
Jean Claude Van Damme, Actor (1960) |
Zac Efron, Actor (1987) |
Helen Hunt Jackson, Writer (1831) |
Charles Babbage, Mathematician (1871) |
Thomas A. Edison, Inventor (1931) |
Jose Ortega Y Gasset, Philosopher (1955) |
Walt Kelly, Cartoonist (1973) |