“Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There is obviously no rule about this, except that anything that you suspect of being a cliche undoubtedly is one and had better be removed.”
“So far as I know, anything worth hearing is not usually uttered at seven o'clock in the morning; and if it is, it will generally be repeated at a more reasonable hour for a larger and more wakeful audience.”
| Anna Akhmatova, Poet (1889) |
| Richard Bach, Novelist (1936) |
| June Carter, Musician (1929) |
| Donald J. Carty, Businessman (1946) |
| June Carter Cash, Musician (1929) |
| Vinton Cerf, Inventor (1943) |
| Glenn Danzig, Musician (1955) |
| Joel Edgerton, Actor (1974) |
| Edward VIII, Royalty (1894) |
| King Edward VIII, Royalty (1894) |
| Mark Akenside, Poet (1770) |
| Shana Alexander, Journalist (2005) |
| William S. Hart, Actor (1946) |
| Maynard Jackson, Politician (2003) |