“I was not going to use writing for advertising or journalism. I would tend bar, load trucks, chauffeur - do whatever it took. But from the moment I took my first writing workshop, I was a writer.”
“In the U.S.A. or Europe there is no realistic way to estimate the type, magnitude, or probability of the risk, nor any way to narrow down the potentially affected regions.”
| Otto Bauer, Writer (1881) |
| Amy Marcy Beach, Musician (1867) |
| John Cage, Composer (1912) |
| Tommaso Campanella, Philosopher (1568) |
| John Griffin Carlisle, Politician (1834) |
| John C. Danforth, Politician (1936) |
| William Devane, Actor (1940) |
| Werner Erhard, Celebrity (1935) |
| Alcee Hastings, Politician (1936) |
| Jesse James, Criminal (1847) |
| Douglas Bader, Soldier (1982) |
| Lord Caradon, Diplomat (1990) |
| Leon Edel, Critic (1997) |
| Paul Gillmor, Politician (2007) |
| Mother Teresa, Leader (1997) |