Quotes from authors that died on Jan 15th
Everybody thinks I'm, like, a bad boy. I've had my day, but I just sit at home and play the blues mostly.
Brad Renfro
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
Edward Everett
Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.
Les Baxter
Illegality will never solve the problem of political lawlessness.
Emanuel Celler
I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that and it's pretty scary. Hope at least gives you the option of living.
Harry Nilsson
Niklas Zennstrom 
A. Philip Randolph 
Patrick Leahy 
Nana Visitor 
Andy Garcia 
Samuel P. Huntington 
Cy Young 
Abbey Lincoln