Rower

🇬🇧Hugh Laurie

Entertainment

b. 1959

"The thing you have to realise about Hugh is that he was born prematurely disillusioned. -- Emma Thompson"

William Brett

Law

1815–1789

"I agree that is the law, though I think it is a hard law; but we have nothing to do with the question of hardship."

🇺🇸Caldwell Esselstyn

Literature

b. 1933

"Half a million people a year will have their chests opened up and a vein taken from their leg and sewn onto their coronary artery. Some people would call that “extreme”."

🇺🇸Benjamin Spock

Sports

1903–1998

"In automobile terms, the child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering."