Performing Artist

🇺🇸Harry Houdini

Literature

1874–1926

"I'm tired of fighting, Dash. I guess this thing is going to get me."

🇪🇸Abel Azcona

Art

contemporary art

b. 1988

"Life without provocation would be summed up in resignation, skepticism and mental asepsis."

🇺🇸Mikhail Baryshnikov

Entertainment

b. 1948

"The more injuries you get, the smarter you get."

"Overview of Robert Hayden's life and poetry from XJ Kennedy and Dana Gioia's Introduction to Poetry"

🇺🇸Steve Martin

Entertainment

b. 1945

"The new phone book's here! The new phone book's here! This is the kind of spontaneous publicity I need. My name in print. That really makes somebody. Things are going to start happening to me now!"

🇬🇧Stephen Fry

Entertainment

atheism

b. 1957

"The beauty of the brain is that you can still be as greedy as you like for knowledge and it doesn’t show."

William McGonagall

Literature

1825–1902

"But I may say Dame Fortune has been very kind to me by endowing me with the genius of poetry. I remember how I felt when I received the spirit of poetry. It was in the year of 1877."

🇦🇹Johannes Grenzfurthner

Entertainment

b. 1975

"Strange to see radical anti-Semites using Facebook. I'd like to call that Zuckerberg's Paradox."