“If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.”
“You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet.”
| Elisabetta Canalis, Actress (1978) |
| Jan Egeland, Public Servant (1957) |
| Anselm Feuerbach, Artist (1829) |
| Ben Folds, Musician (1966) |
| Sigmar Gabriel, Politician (1959) |
| George Jones, Musician (1931) |
| Florence Kelley, Activist (1859) |
| Frederick Kelly, Athlete (1891) |
| Richard Lamm, Politician (1935) |
| Stanislaw Lem, Writer (1921) |
| Johnny Cash, Musician (2003) |
| Ernst Haas, Photographer (1986) |
| Serge Lang, Mathematician (2005) |
| Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Photographer (1986) |