Sailor

🇺🇸Jack Vance

Literature

1916–2013

"Evidently you do not trust me. This does not predispose me to trust you."

🇮🇹Christopher Columbus

Technology

1451–1506

"The Admiral ordered the lord to be given some things, and he and all his folk rested in great contentment, believing truly that they had come from the sky, and to see the Christians they held themselves very fortunate."

🇳🇴Roald Amundsen

Literature

1872–1928

"Roald Amundsen article at south-pole.com"

🇺🇸Herman Melville

creative and professional writing

Romanticism

1819–1891

"You must have plenty of sea-room to tell the truth in."

William Hope Hodgson

Literature

1877–1918

"We truly to think that the world doth even now be old; and this to have seemed a true thing unto every age that ever did live."

🇺🇸Nathaniel Bowditch

Mathematics

1773–1838

"The American Practical Navigator, by the United States government, 2002"

🇺🇸Richard McKenna

Literature

1913–1964

"Biographical profile from the Boise Weekly"

🇺🇸Ted Turner

Business

b. 1938

"Don't let Ted Turner deface my movie with his crayons."

🇪🇸Bill Bailey (Spanish Civil War veteran)

Military

1910–1995

"There’s already about 10,000 people on the docks, screamin’ and hollerin’, and carrying swastikas, “Free Ernst Thälmann”, “Down with Hitlerism”, and such and such and such. The demonstration’s already really in progress."

🇺🇸William March

Literature

1893–1954

"...man...is a frail, lost creature, too weak to walk unaided."

🇺🇸Humphrey Bogart

Entertainment

1899–1957

"Fa sembrare Marilyn Monroe simile a Shirley Temple."

🇬🇷Constantine II of Greece

Politics

1940–2023

"If the Greek people decide that they want a republic, they are entitled to have that and should be left in peace to enjoy it."

🇬🇧Charles Lightoller

Military

1874–1952

"As I watched, I could see her bow getting deeper and deeper in the water with the foremast sticking up above the surface whilst her stern lifted higher and higher, till it was right out of the water."

🇺🇸Stansfield Turner

Military

1923–2018

"Interview on the Iranian Arms Scandal from the Dean Peter Krogh Foreign Affairs Digital Archives"