“We are given to the cult of personality; when things go badly we look to some messiah to save us. If by chance we think we have found one, it will not be long before we destroy him.”
“For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system, lightning rods, the constitution. He was a rock star before there was such a thing.”
| Jim Caviezel, Actor (1968) |
| T. S. Eliot, Poet (1888) |
| Bryan Ferry, Musician (1945) |
| Theodore Gericault, Artist (1791) |
| George Gershwin, Composer (1898) |
| Mark Haddon, Novelist (1962) |
| Linda Hamilton, Actress (1956) |
| Robert Kagan, Writer (1958) |
| Sue Kelly, Politician (1936) |
| Jack LaLanne, Athlete (1914) |
| Bela Bartok, Composer (1945) |
| Betty Carter, Musician (1998) |
| W. H. Davies, Poet (1940) |
| Frederick William Faber, Theologian (1863) |