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Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.
Andrew Carnegie, Businessman (1835) |
Shelagh Delaney, Playwright (1939) |
Bob Ehrlich, Politician (1957) |
Robert. L. Ehrlich, Politician (1957) |
Martin Feldstein, Economist (1939) |
Jerry Ferrara, Actor (1979) |
Helen Gahagan, Actress (1900) |
Joe Gibbs, Coach (1940) |
Charlaine Harris, Author (1951) |
Pope John XXIII, Clergyman (1881) |
Roald Dahl, Novelist (1990) |
Laurence Harvey, Actor (1973) |
Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Author (1950) |
Charles Kettering, Inventor (1958) |