Quotes from authors that died on Jan 16th
But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way to tell him the plain truths contained in these pages.
Edmond About
We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.
Edward Gibbon
I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven't had time for tobacco since.
Arturo Toscanini
It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion.
Andrew Wyeth
One should indeed read Pope with his notes available, in the Twickenham edition possibly, to see what a vast amount he did understand about Homer.
Robert Fitzgerald
Shaun Alexander 
John Salazar 
Adam Baldwin 
Paul Kurtz 
Bruce Wasserstein 
Dennis Farina 
Luke Richardson 
Henry Clay