Eliel Saarinen

Birth date; August 20, 1873 in Rantasalmi, Finland
Death date; July 1, 1950 in Cranbrook, Michigan, United States
Alive: No
Career; Architect, famous for his art nouveau buildings in the early years of the 20th century. Professor
Nationality; Finnish

Carl Sagan
.
Birth date; November 9, 1934
Death date; December 20, 1996
Alive: No
Career; astronomer who pioneered exobiology, famous for his popular science books and the television series Cosmos
Nationality; American

We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.
~Carl Sagan, Cosmos (1980) Page: 193

In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature.
~Carl Sagan, Contact

I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive
~Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995)

St. Bernard of Clairvaux

Birth date; 1090 in Fontaines, near Dijon, France
Death date; August 21, 1153 in Clairvaux, France
Alive: No
Career; abbot and theologian
Nationality; French

Who loves me will love my dog also.
~ Sermo Primus

Saint Francis of Assisi

Birth date; 1181 in Assisi, Italy
Death date; on October 3, 1226 in Assisi, Italy
Alive: NO
Career; Founded the Franciscan Order. Patron saint of animals
Nationality; Italian

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow man
~Saint Francis of Assisi (attributed)

Preach the Gospel always, and if necessary, use words.
~Saint Francis of Assisi (attributed)

Saint John of the Cross

Birth date; June 24, 1542 in at Fontiveros, a small village near Avila
Death date; December 14, 1591
Alive: No
Career; Carmelite friar, Famous for co-operating in the reformation of the Carmelite order and his writings.
Nationality; Spanish

In the dark night of the soul, bright flows the river of God.
~ St John of the Cross

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Birth date; June 29, 1900 in Lyon, France
Death date; July 31, 1944
Alive:
Career; writer and aviator, One of his most famous works is Le Petit Prince
Nationality; French.

Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures— in this century, as in others, our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.
~Antoine De Saint-Exupery, Terre des Hommes Translated into English as Wind, Sand, and Stars (1939)

Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

Birth date; December 23, 1804 in Boulogne, France
Death date; October 13, 1869
Alive: No
Career; Literary critic.
Nationality; French

Luke Salisbury

Birth date;
Death date;
Alive: Yes
Career; Writer, English Professor
Nationality; American

Baseball is green and safe. It has neither the street intimidation of basketball nor the controlled Armageddon of football.... Baseball is a green dream that happens on summer nights in safe places in unsafe cities.
~Luke Salisbury, author

Sallust

Birth date; 86 BC in Amiternum in the country of the Sabines
Death date; 34 BC
Alive: No
Career; Historian
Nationality; Roman

By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
~Sallust

Paul A. Samuelson

Birth date; May 15, 1915
Death date;
Alive:
Career; Economist, professor of economics
Nationality; American

Every good cause is worth some inefficiency.
~Paul A. Samuelson

George Sand

Birth date; Real Name Amandine-Aurore-Lucile Dupin on July 1, 1804 in Paris, France
Death date; June 8, 1876 in Nohant, near Chateauroux
Alive: No
Career; Novelist
Nationality; French

Carl Sandburg

Birth date; January 6, 1878 in Galesburg, Illinois, US
Death date; July 22, 1967 in Flat Rock, North Carolina.
Alive: No
Career; poet, historian, novelist, winner of two Pulitzer Prizes
Nationality; American

Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.
~Carl Sandburg

The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
~Carl Sandburg, Chicago Poems (1916) "Fog"

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance
- Carl Sandburg

Colonel Harland Sanders

Birth date; September 9, 1890 in Henryville, Indiana US
Death date; December 16, 1980
Alive: No
Career; Founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken
Nationality; American

George Santayana

Birth date; 16 December 1863
Death date; 26 September 1952
Alive: No
Career; Philosopher, essayist, poet and novelist
Nationality; Spanish

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
~George Santayana, Reason in Common Sense, first volume of The Life of Reason.1905

Alan Saporta

Birth date;
Death date;
Alive: Yes
Career; Musician
Nationality; American

Robert W. Sarnoff

Birth date; 7/2/1918 in New York City
Death date; 2/22/1997
Alive: No
Career; Head of NBC and RCA
Nationality; American

Jean-Paul Sartre

Birth date; June 21, 1905
Death date; April 15, 1980
Alive: No
Career; existentialist philosopher, novelist and critic.
Nationality; French

Hell is other people
~Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit (1945)

John Ralston Saul

Birth date; June 19, 1947 in Ottawa, Canada
Death date;
Alive: Yes
Career; philosopher, author, essayist
Nationality; Canadian

Mario Savio

Birth date; December 8, 1942
Death date; November 6, 1996)
Alive: No
Career; political activist, Professor
Nationality; American

Gale Sayers

Birth date; May 30, 1943 in Wichita, Kansas US
Death date;
Alive: Yes
Career; professional football player also known as "The Kansas Comet",
Nationality; American

F.W.J. Schelling

Birth date; January 27, 1775 in Leonberg in Württemberg, Germany
Death date; August 20, 1854
Alive: No
Career; philosopher.
Nationality; German

Architecture in general is frozen music.
~Friedrich von Schelling, Philosophie der Kunst

Michael Brian Schiffer

Birth date; October 4, 1947, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Death date;
Alive: Yes
Career; Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arizona.
Nationality; American

Friedrich von Schiller

Birth date; Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller November 10, 1759 in Marbach, Württemberg, Germany
Death date; May 9, 1805 in Weimar, Saxe-Weimar, Germany
Alive: No
Career; poet, philosopher, historian,
Nationality; German

Stern is the on-look of necessity,
Not without shudder may a human hand
Grasp the mysterious urn of destiny.
~Friedrich von Schiller, The Death of Wallenstein, Countess at Act I, scene 4, 45

Johann von Schiller

Same person as above;
–full name; Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller,
- Known as Friedrich von Schiller

Friedrich Schleiermacher

Birth date; November 21, 1768 in Wrocław, SW Poland (formerly Breslau, Prussia
Death date; February 12, 1834
Alive: No
Career; Theologian and philosopher
Nationality;

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

Birth date; October 15, 1917 in Columbus, Ohio, US
Death date;
Alive: Yes
Career; political scientist and social critic
Nationality; American

If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.
~Arthur Schlesinger, Jr

Kyle Schmidt

Birth date; August 25, 1983.
Death date;
Alive: Yes
Career; Baseball Player
Nationality; American

Arthur Schopenhauer

Birth date; February 22, 1788
Death date; September 21, 1860
Alive: No
Career; philosopher. His ideas had a great influence on philosophy, psychology, and literature. Most famous for The World as Will and Representation.
Nationality; German

We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
~Arthur Schopenhauer

Charles Monroe Schulz

Birth date; November 26, 1922
Death date; February 12, 2000
Alive: No
Career; Cartoonist best known for his Peanuts comic strip.
Nationality; American

Robert Alexander Schumann

Birth date; June 8, 1810 in Zwickau in Saxony
Death date; July 29, 1856 in Endenich near Bonn,
Alive: No
Career; Romantic composer and pianist.
Nationality; German


Joseph Schumpeter

Birth date; February 8, 1883
Death date; January 8, 1950
Alive: No
Career; economist
Nationality; Austrian

Charles Schwab (Charles M Schwab)

Birth date; February 18, 1862 in Williamsburg, Pennsylvania, Us
Death date; October 18, 1939 in London, England
Alive: No
Career; Industrialist
Nationality; American

Delmore Schwartz

Birth date; December 8, 1913
Death date; July 11, 1966
Alive: No
Career; Poet
Nationality; American

I should like you to consider this letter as a resignation; I want to resign as one of your most studious and faithful admirers.
~Delmore Schwartz

Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again.
~Delmore Schwartz

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Birth date; July 30, 1947 in Thal, Styria, Austria
Death date;
Alive: Yes
Career; Actor, bodybuilder, currently serving as the 38th Governor of California.
Nationality; Austrian-American

Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf

Birth date; August 22, 1934 in Trenton, New Jersey, US
Death date;
Alive: Yes
Career; US Army general, Commander-in-Chief of U.S. Central Command, commander of the Coalition Forces in the Gulf War of 1991
Nationality; American

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers. All you have to do is hold your first dying soldier in your arms, and have that terribly futile feeling that his life is flowing out and you can't do anything about it. Then you understand the horror of war. Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still, there are things worth fighting for.
~Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf

Albert Schweitzer

Birth date; January 14, 1875 in Kaysersberg, Upper-Alsace, Germany (now Haut-Rhin département, France)
Death date; September 4, 1965
Alive: No
Career; theologian, musician, philosopher, and physician. Won 1952 Nobel Peace Prize
Nationality; German

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
~Albert Schweitzer

Evelyn Scott

Birth date; January 17, 1893, (as Elsie Dunn) in Clarksville, Tennessee, US
Death date; August 3, 1963.
Alive: No
Career; Writer and poet
Nationality; American

Sir Walter Scott

Birth date; August 14, 1771 in Edinburgh, Scotland
Death date; September 21, 1832
Alive: No
Career; historical novelist and poet
Nationality; Scottish

Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim,
One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.
~Sir Walter Scott , Old Mortality. Chap. xxxiv.

O!, many a shaft at random sent Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word at random spoken May soothe, or wound, a heart that 's broken!
~ Sir Walter Scott , Lord of the Isles. 1815, Canto v. Stanza 18.

Chief Seattle

Birth date; c.1786 on Blake Island in Washington, US
Death date; June 7, 1866 Suquamish Reservation at Port Madison, Washington, US
Alive: No
Career; Warrior and Leader, Seattle was named after him.
Nationality; American, Suquamish and Duwamish Native American tribes,

Every part of this soil is sacred in the estimation of my people. Every hillside, every valley, every plain and grove, has been hallowed by some sad or happy event in days long vanished. Even the rocks, which seem to be dumb and dead as the swelter in the sun along the silent shore, thrill with memories of stirring events connected with the lives of my people, and the very dust upon which you now stand responds more lovingly to their footsteps than yours, because it is rich with the blood of our ancestors, and our bare feet are conscious of the sympathetic touch. Our departed braves, fond mothers, glad, happy hearted maidens, and even the little children who lived here and rejoiced here for a brief season, will love these somber solitudes and at eventide they greet shadowy returning spirits. And when the last Red Man shall have perished, and the memory of my tribe shall have become a myth among the White Men, these shores will swarm with the invisible dead of my tribe, and when your children's children think themselves alone in the field, the store, the shop, upon the highway, or in the silence of the pathless woods, they will not be alone. In all the earth there is no place dedicated to solitude. At night when the streets of your cities and villages are silent and you think them deserted, they will throng with the returning hosts that once filled them and still love this beautiful land.
Chief Seattle, text of Chief Seattle's Treaty Oration - 1854
Originally published in the Seattle Sunday Star, Oct. 29 1887

NOTE: This text appeared in the Seattle Sunday Star on Oct. 29, 1887, in a column by Dr. Henry A. Smith. Smith took notes as Seattle spoke and created this text in English from those notes.

http://www.synaptic.bc.ca/ejournal/wslibrry.htm

Erich Segal

Birth date; June 16, 1937 in Brooklyn, New York
Death date;
Alive: Yes
Career; author, screenwriter and professor
Nationality; American

Jerry Seinfeld

Birth date; April 29, 1954 in Brooklyn, New York US
Death date;
Alive: Yes
Career; actor, writer and comedian
Nationality; American

Possible authors/quotes to add to Quoteland;

Lillian Hellman

Birth date; June 20, 1905
Death date; June 30, 1984
Alive: No
Career; Playwright, works include The Children's Hour (1934), The Little Foxes (1939) and Toys in the Attic (1959).
Nationality; American

Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?
~Lillian Hellman, attributed

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions……
~Lillian Hellman, Letter to HUAAC (House Un-American Activities Committee), (19 May 1952)

For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
~Lillian Hellman, The Watch on the Rhine (1941)

Eric Idle

Birth date; 29 March 1943 in South Shields, Tyne and Wear, England, UK
Death date;
Alive: Yes
Career; comedian, writer, and actor, known for Monty Python
Nationality; British

Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.
~Eric Idle,

At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society permits more satirical comment than a repressive, so that if comedy is to function in some way as a safety release then it must obviously deal with these taboo areas. This is part of the responsibility we accord our licensed jesters, that nothing be excused the searching light of comedy. If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted.
~Eric Idle, attributed

Justice Robert Houghwout Jackson

Birth date; February 13, 1892 in Spring Creek Township, Warren County, Pennsylvania
Death date; October 9, 1954 in Washington, D.C.
Alive:
Career; United States Attorney General, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, chief United States prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials.
Nationality; American

It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error.
~Justice Robert Houghwout Jackson, American Communications Association v. Douds, 339 U.S. 382, 442 (1950)

M. C. Escher

Birth date; Maurits Cornelis Escher June 17, 1898 in Leeuwarden, Holland
Death date; March 27, 1972 in Laren, Holland
Alive: No
Career; Artist known for the impossible constructions, explorations of infinity, and tessellations.in his works
Nationality; Dutch
I don't use drugs; my dreams are frightening enough.
~M. C. Escher

Maybe it’s in the basement, let me go up stairs and check .
~M. C. Escher

In my prints I try to show that we live in a beautiful and orderly world and not in a chaos without norms, as we sometimes seem to. My subjects are also often playful. I cannot help mocking all our unwavering certainties. It is, for example, great fun deliberately to confuse two and three dimensions, the plane and space, or to poke fun at gravity. Are you sure that a floor cannot also be a ceiling? Are you absolutely certain that you go up when you walk up a staircase? Can you be definite that it is impossible to eat your cake and have it?
~M. C. Escher, “On Being a Graphic Artist”

Variant translation: I can't keep from fooling around with our irrefutable certainties. It is, for example, a pleasure knowingly to mix up two and three dimensionalities, flat and spatial, and to make fun of gravity.


Bergen Evans

Birth date; 1904
Death date; 1978)
Alive:
Career; lexicographer, writer and educator
Nationality; American

That is the essence of a witch-hunt, that any questioning of the evidence or the procedures in itself constitutes proof of complicity.
~Bergen Evans, The Dictionary of Quotations

The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.
~Bergen Evans, The Dictionary of Quotations

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt
~Bergen Evans, Attributed

Dorothy Fisher

Birth date; February 17, 1879 in Lawrence, Kansas, US
Death date; November 9, 1958
Alive: No
Career; educational reformer, social activist, and author, An American children book award is named after her
Nationality; American

A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
~Dorothy Fisher, quoted in O Magazine, May 2003

Joseph C. Fletcher

Birth date; 1905
Death date; 1991
Alive: No
Career; Professor and Ethicist
Nationality; American

It is only when you recognize that you CAN do what Hitler did that you can consciously choose not to.
~Joseph C. Fletcher

Anne Frank

Birth date; Annelies Marie Frank on June 12, 1929 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Death date; ca. March 1945 in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
Alive: No
Career; Diarist
Nationality; German Jewish

I don't believe the war is simply the work of politicians and capitalists. Oh no, the common man is every bit as guilty; otherwise, people and nations would have rebelled long ago! There's a destructive urge in people, the urge to rage, murder, and kill. And until all of humanity, without exception, undergoes a metamorphosis, wars will continue to be waged, and everything that has been carefully built up, cultivated and grown will be cut down and destroyed, only to start all over again!
~Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl: the Definitive Edition (1952)

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
~Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl: the Definitive Edition (1952)

Arne Garborg

Birth date; 1851 in Time, Norway
Death date; 1924)
Alive: No
Career; writer
Nationality; Norwegian

It is said that for money you can have everything, but you cannot. You can buy food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; knowledge but not wisdom; glitter, but not beauty; fun, but not joy; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; leisure, but not peace. You can have the husk of everything for money, but not the kernel.
~Arne Garborg

Robertson Davies

Birth date; August 28, 1913 at Thamesville, Ontario, Canada
Death date; December 2, 1995 at Orangeville, Ontario, Canada
Alive: No
Career; novelist, playwright, critic and professor
Nationality; Canadian

I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them. Censors only read a book with great difficulty, moving their lips as they puzzle out each syllable, when someone tells them that the book is unfit to read.
~Robertson Davies

Wisdom is a variable possession. Every man is wise when pursued by a mad dog, fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.
~Robertson Davies, Marchbanks' Almanac

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to an idealised past.
~Robertson Davies, A Voice from the Attic

Edward Abbey

Birth date; 29 January 1927 in Pennsylvania, US
Death date; 14 March 1989 near Tucson, Arizona
Alive: No
Career; author and environmentalist
Nationality; American

Why wilderness? Because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger.
--Edward Abbey, Beyond the Wall

We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to go there.... We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.
~Edward Abbey

That's the best thing about walking, the journey itself. It doesn't matter much whether you get where you're going or not. You'll get there anyway. Every good hike brings you eventually back home.
~Edward Abbey

Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so
~Edward Abbey


Bella Abzug

Birth date; July 24, 1920
Death date; March 31, 1998
Alive: No
Career; political figure and a leader of the women's movement. From 1971 to 1977 she represented New York in the United States House of Representatives,
Nationality; American

Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.
~Bella Abzug

This woman's place is in the House - the House of Representatives.
~Bella Abzug

The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
~Bella Abzug

We have done almost everything in pairs since Noah, except govern. And the world has suffered for it.
~ Bella Abzug

Susan B Anthony

Birth date; February 15, 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts, US
Death date; March 13, 1906 at Rochester, New York, US
Alive: No
Career; Teacher, Campaigner for women’s right to vote
Nationality; American

The true republic — men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.
~Susan B Anthony, The Revolution (a New York weekly paper that she was proprietor of 1868 to 1870), Motto

One-half of the people of this nation to-day are utterly powerless to blot from the statute books an unjust law, or to write there a new and a just one.
~Susan B Anthony, (An account of the proceedings on the trial of Susan B. Anthony, on the charge of illegal voting, at the presidential election in Nov. 1872, and on the trial of Beverly W. Jones, Edwin T. Marsh and William B. Hall, the inspectors of election by whom her vote was received)

Haile Selassie

Birth date; name of Lij Tafari Makonnen, July 23, 1892 in Ejersa Goro, Harari
Death date; August 27, 1975
Alive: No
Career; Emperor (1930–1936; 1941–1974) of Ethiopia.
Nationality; Ethiopian

Wilfred Sellars

Birth date; May 20, 1912 in Ann Arbor, MI, US
Death date; July 2, 1989 in Pittsburgh, PA, US
Alive: No
Career; philosopher, editor, Professor
Nationality; American

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Birth date; Lucius, or Marcus, Annaeus Seneca, known as Seneca the Elder C. 54 BC
Death date; C 39AD
Alive: No
Career, rhetorician and writer
Nationality; Roman

It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen; that is the common right of humanity.
~Seneca the Elder

He who has injured thee was stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.
~Seneca the Elder

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger)

Birth date; Seneca the Younger, C 4 BC in Cordoba, Hispania
Death date; AD 65
Alive: No
Career; philosopher, statesman, dramatist
Nationality; Roman

The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.
~Seneca the Younger, Moral Letters to Lucilius.

Robert William Service

Some praise the Lord for Light,
The living spark;
I thank God for the Night
The healing dark.
~Robert William Service, "Weary", first lines

Anne Sexton

Birth date; Anne Gray Harvey, November 9, 1928 in Newton, Massachusetts
Death date; October 4, 1974
Alive: No
Career; poet and writer.
Nationality; American

The house of my body has spoken
often as you rebuild me like blocks,
and promise to come visit
when I'm finally adjusted on safe land,
and am livable, joist to joist
with storm windows and screens ...

~Anne Sexton, "There You Were."

Harold J. Seymore

Birth date; 1894
Death date;
Alive: No
Career; Author of “Designs for Fund-Raising”
Nationality;

William Shakespeare

Birth date; April 26, 1564
Death date; April 23, 1616
Alive: No
Career; poet and playwright
Nationality; English

Tupac Shakur

Birth date; June 16, 1971
Death date; September 13, 1996
Alive: No
Career; hip hop artist,
Nationality; American

When I speak, I want my words to mean something. I want my words to make people shiver.
~ Tupac Shakur, Interview (1994)

Cecil J. Sharpe

Birth date; 1859
Death date; 1924
Alive: No
Career; Collector of Folk Songs and Dances
Nationality; British

The essence of all immorality and sin is making ourselves the center around which we subordinate all interest.
~Cecil J.Sharpe

George Bernard Shaw

Birth date; July 26, 1856 in Dublin, Ireland
Death date; November 2 1950, in Ayot St Lawrence, Hertfordshire
Alive: No
Career; playwright, winner of the 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature and an Academy Award (Best Screenplay for Pygmalion in 1938).
Nationality; Irish

It took a while for me to catch up, but I finally did. Thanks for all the help. I haven't updated that "author list" yet, though.
Much appreciated.

Gail Sheehy

Birth date; November 27, 1937
Alive: Yes
Career; Writer best known for "Pathfinders: Predictable Crises of Adult Life," 1976.
Nationality; American

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Birth date; August 4, 1792
Death date; July 8, 1822
Alive: No
Career; Romantic Poet
Nationality; English

Gen. William Sherman

Birth date; February 8, 1820 in Lancaster, Ohio
Death date; February 14, 1891 in new York City, US
Alive: No
Career; soldier, businessman, and author, general in US army during American Civil War
Nationality; American

James Shirley

Birth date; September 1596 in London
Death date; October 29, 1666
Alive: No
Career; playwright
Nationality; English

The glories of our blood and state
Are shadows, not substantial things;
There is no armour against fate;
Death lays his icy hands on kings.
~ James Shirley, Contention of Ajax and Ulysses. Sc. 3.

Cease, warring thoughts, and let his brain
No more discord entertain
But be smooth and calm again.
~ James Shirley, Cease, Warring Thoughts
(Excerpt from "The Triumph of Beauty")

Beauty was darkness till she came.
Then paint her eyes, whose active light
Shall make the former shadows bright,
And with their every beam supply
New day, to draw her picture by.
~ James Shirley, To the Painter Preparing to Draw M.M.H

George Shultz

Birth date; born December 13, 1920
Alive: Yes
Career; Politician, US Secretary of State
Nationality; American

Sir Philip Sidney

Birth date; November 30, 1554 in Penshurst, Kent, England
Death date; October 17, 1586 from a wound at the Battle of Zutphen
Alive: No
Career; poet, courtier and soldier
Nationality; English

Come, Sleep! O Sleep, the certain knot of peace,
The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe,
The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release,
Th' indifferent judge between the high and low.
~ Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophel and Stella, Sonnet 39

My true-love hath my heart, and I have his,
By just exchange, one for the other given:
I hold his dear, and mine he cannot miss,
There never was a better bargain driven.
~ Sir Philip Sidney, Song from Arcadia

Beverly Sills

Birth date; Born Belle Miriam Silverman May 25, 1929
Alive: Yes
Career; opera singer (coloratura soprano), general manager of the New York City Opera.
Nationality; American

Art is the signature of civilizations.
~Beverly Sills , NBC TV, 4 May 85

Shel Silverstein

Birth date; September 25, 1930 in Chicago, Illinois, US
Death date; May 10, 1999 in Key West, Florida., US
Alive: No
Career; poet, composer, cartoonist, writer.
Nationality; American

Charles Simic

Birth date; born May 9, 1938 in Belgrade Yugoslavia
Alive: Yes
Career; Poet, winner of the 1990, Pulitzer Prize for poetry for The World Doesn't End: Prose Poems.
Nationality; American

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.
~Charles Simic

Neil Simon

Birth date; July 4, 1927 in The Bronx, New York City, US
Alive: Yes
Career; playwright and screenwriter, author of over 40 Broadway plays
Nationality; American

Ted Simon

Alive: Yes
Career; Rabbi

To be worth making at all a journey has to be made in the mind as much as in the world of objects and dimensions. What value can there be in seeing or experiencing anything for the first time unless it comes as a revelation? And for that to happen, some previously held thought or belief must be confounded, or enhanced, or even transcended. What difference can it make otherwise to see a redwood tree, a tiger, or a humming bird?
~Ted Simon, Jupiter’s Travels

I am learning, as I make my way through my first continent, that it is remarkably easy to do things, and much more frightening to contemplate them.
~Ted Simon, Jupiter's Travels

Frank Sinatra

Birth date; December 12, 1915 in Hoboken, New Jersey, US
Death date; May 14, 1998 in Los Angeles, California, US
Alive: No
Career; Singer, Actor
Nationality; American

Upton Sinclair

Birth date; September 20, 1878 in Baltimore, Maryland, US
Death date; November 25, 1968
Alive: No
Career; author, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1943.with “Dragon's Teeth”,
Nationality; American

Osbert Sitwell

Birth date; December 6, 1892 in London
Death date; May 4, 1969 at Montegufoni, near Florence.
Alive: No
Career; writer.
Nationality; English

B. F. Skinner

Birth date; Burrhus Frederic Skinner March 20, 1904 in Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, US.
Death date; August 18, 1990
Alive: No
Career; psychologist and author, advocate of behaviorism,.
Nationality; American

Adam Smith

Birth date; Baptised June 5, 1723 at Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland. The exact date of his birth is unknown.
Death date; July 17, 1790 in Edinburgh, Scotland
Alive: No
Career; political economist and moral philosopher
Nationality; Scottish

Betty Smith

Birth date; 1896, in Brooklyn, US
Death date; 1972
Alive: No
Career; author, wrote "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" published in 1943.
Nationality; American

Logan Pearsall Smith

Birth date; October 18, 1865
Death date; March 2, 1946
Alive: No
Career; essayist and critic
Nationality; American

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
~ Logan Pearsall Smith, "Myself"

Sydney Smith

Birth date; June 3, 1771 at Woodford, Essex, England
Death date; February 22, 1845, London, England
Alive: No
Career; Clergyman and writer
Nationality; English

Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. ……….. Be what Nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.
~Sydney Smith, The Way To Succeed, W M Thayer, 1902 (Page 211)

Let every man be occupied, and occupied in the highest employment of which his nature is capable, and die with the consciousness that he has done his best.
~Sydney Smith, Lady Holland's Memoir. Vol. i. P. 130.

William Reece Smith, Jr.

Birth date;
Alive: Yes
Career; Lawyer, professor
Nationality; American

Sam Snead

Birth date; May 27, 1912 in Hot Springs, Va., US
Death date; May 23, 2002
Alive: No
Career; Professional Golfer Known as ‘SLAMMIN SAM' because of his lengthy drives, 82 tour victories
Nationality; American

The three things I fear most in golf are lightning, Ben Hogan and a downhill putt.
~Sam Snead

Ralph W. Sockman

Birth date; October 1, 1889
Death date; August 29, 1970
Alive: No
Career; religious leader. Pastor in New York City 1916-61 who broadcast weekly sermons for 35 years.
Nationality; American

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
~Ralph W. Sockman

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
~Ralph W. Sockman

Socrates

Birth date; c 470 BC
Death date; c 399 BC
Alive: No
Career; philosopher.
Nationality; Greek (Athenian)

Sophocles

Birth date; c 495 BC in Attica (near Athens) Greece
Death date; 406 BC
Alive: No
Career; Playwright, priest, general and politician, sometimes known as the "Attic Bee"
Nationality; Greek (Athenian)

John Lancaster Spalding

Birth date; 2 Jun 1840 in Lebanon, KY, US
Death date; 25 Aug 1916, Illinois, USA
Alive: No
Career; Priest, Bishop
Nationality; American

Elizabeth George Speare

Birth date; November 21, 1908 in New England, US
Death date; 1994
Alive: No
Career; writer who won several Newbery Medals for her historical fiction books for children.
Nationality; American

Henry Spencer

Birth date;
Alive: Yes
Career; a co-author of C News and The Ten Commandments for C Programmers, the author of regex, from which the original Tcl and Perl regular expressions were derived.
Nationality; Canadian

Gustav Spet

Birth date; 1879
Death date; 1937
Alive: No
Career; philosopher
Nationality; Russian

Benedict de Spinoza

= Baruch Spinoza (Following his excommunication, he adopted the first name Benedictus which is the Latin equivalent of his given name, Baruch).

Birth date; Baruch Spinoza, November 24, 1632 in Amsterdam, Holland
Death date; February 21, 1677 at The Hague,
Alive: No
Career; rationalist philosopher. His magnum opus was the Ethics.
Nationality; Dutch

There is no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
~ Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza, Ethics (pt. 2, para.178)

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.
~ Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza

Baruch Spinoza = Benedict de Spinoza (see above)

Benjamin Spock

Birth date; May 2, 1903 in New Haven, Connecticut, US
Death date; March 15, 1998 in Wellesley, Massachusetts
Alive: No
Career; pediatrician
Nationality; American

The fact is that child rearing is a long, hard job, the rewards are not always immediately obvious, the work is undervalued, and parents are just as human and almost as vulnerable as their children.
~Benjamin Spock, “Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care”, first published in 1945

There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.
~Benjamin Spock, “Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care”, first published in 1945

Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.
~Benjamin Spock, “Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care”, first published in 1945

H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon

Birth date; June 19, 1834 in Kelvedon, Essex, England
Death date; January 31, 1892 at Mentone, near Nice, France,
Alive: No
Career; Preacher
Nationality; English

The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it this day.
~H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon, Faith's Checkbook entry for June 22.

Shaka Ssali

Birth date; 1952? in Uganda
Alive: Yes
Career; Journalist, editor and talk show host
Nationality; American

Josef Stalin

Birth date; December 18, 1878 in Gori, Georgia
Death date; March 5, 1953 in Moscow, Russia
Alive: No
Career; leader of the Soviet Union from mid-1920s to 1953, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922-1953),
Nationality; Russian

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
Joseph Stalin (Attributed)

General John Stark

Birth date; August 28, 1728 in Londonderry, New Hampshire, US
Death date; May 8, 1822
Alive: No
Career; Soldier, general during the American Revolutionary War
Nationality; American

Wallce Stevens


Birth: October 2, 1879; Reading, Pa
Death: August 2, 1955; Hartford, CT
Alive: No
Career: lawyer, poet
Nationanilty: American

"The reading of a poem should be an experience. Its writing must be all the more so." - Wallace Stevens, "Adagia"

"Poetry is the statement of a relation between a man and the world." - Wallace Stevens, "Adagia"

"Perhaps there is a degree of perception at which what is real and what is imagines are one: a state of clairvoyant observation, accessible or possibly accessible to the poet or, say, the acutest poet. - Wallace Stevens, "Adagia"


Albert Camus


Birth: November 7, 1913; Algeria
Death: January 4, 1960; Paris, France (car accident)
Alive: No
Career: novelist, essayist and playwright
Nationality: Algerian

"Live to the point of tears." - Albert Camus

"DO not wait for the last judgement. It takes place every day." - Albert Camus

siempre~
Leslie
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"Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential." ~Wallace Stevens

Ringo Starr

Birth date; Born Richard Starkey July 7, 1940
Alive: Yes
Career; Musician, drummer for the Beatles
Nationality; British

Roger Starr

Birth date; 1918
Death date; 10 Sept 2001 in Easton, Pa. US
Alive: No
Career; New York Planning Official, Author and Editorial Writer
Nationality; American

Craig Stecyk

Birth date; born in the early 1950's in California, US
Alive: Yes
Career; Artist, photographer, writer,
Nationality; American

Wallace Stegner

Birth date; February 18, 1909 in Lake Mills, Iowa, US
Death date; April 13, 1993 in Santa Fe, New Mexico
Alive: No
Career; novelist, writer, and environmentalist. Sometimes called "The Dean of Western Writers" Winner of Pulitzer Prize in 1972
Nationality; American

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
~Wallace Stegner, The Spectator Bird, Doubleday 76

Edward Steichen

Birth date; March 27, 1879- in Luxembourg
Death date; March 25, 1973
Alive: No
Career; photographer, painter, and art gallery and museum curator,
Nationality; American

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.
~Edward Steichen

Ben Stein

Birth date; November 25, 1944, in Washington, D.C.
Alive: Yes
Career; lawyer, economist, professor and speechwriter.
Nationality; American

John Steinbeck

Birth date; February 27, 1902
Death date; December 20, 1968
Alive: No
Career; Writer, winner of Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962, Pulitzer Prize for The Grapes of Wrath
Nationality; American

A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.
~John Steinbeck

George Steiner

Birth date; April 23, 1929 in Paris, France
Alive: Yes
Career; literary critic, Writer, professor
Nationality; American

Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.
~George Steiner

We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.
~George Steiner

Stendhal

Birth date; Born Marie-Henri Beyle January 23, 1783 in Grenoble, France
Death date; March 23, 1842 in Paris
Alive: No
Career; Writer, novels include Le Rouge et le Noir (1830) and La Chartreuse de Parme (1839)
Nationality; French

A novel is a mirror carried along a high road. At one moment it reflects to your vision the azure skies at another the mire of the puddles at your feet. And the man who carries this mirror in his pack will be accused by you of being immoral! His mirror shews the mire, and you blame the mirror! Rather blame that high road upon which the puddle lies, still more the inspector of roads who allows the water to gather and the puddle to form.
~ Stendhal, Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black), ch. XL, Levavasseur (1831), translated C.K. Scott-Moncrieff, 1943.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Birth date; November 13, 1850 in Edinburgh, Scotland
Death date; December 3, 1894 in Vailima, Samoa
Alive: No
Career; poet and writer.
Nationality; Scottish

In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.
~Robert Louis Stevenson, Old Mortality, Memories and Portrait (1887)

Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from sea,
and the hunter home from the hill.
~Robert Louis Stevenson, Requiem, (also used on Stevenson's Gravestone)

The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson (attributed)

Bruce Sterling

Birth date; April 14th, 1954 in Brownsville, Texas
Alive: Yes
Career; Professor, science fiction author, cyberpunk genre, best known for the Mirrorshades anthology,
Nationality; American

Adlai Stevenson

Birth date; February 5, 1900
Death date; July 14, 1965
Alive: No
Career; politician and statesman, Governor of Illinois
Nationality; American

We talk a great deal about patriotism. What do we mean by patriotism in the context of our times? I venture to suggest that what we mean is a sense of national responsibility which will enable America to remain master of her power — to walk with it in serenity and wisdom, with self-respect and the respect of all mankind; a patriotism that puts country ahead of self; a patriotism which is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. The dedication of a lifetime — these are words that are easy to utter, but this is a mighty assignment. For it is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.
~ Adlai Stevenson, Speech to the American Legion Convention in New York City (27 August 1952)

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
~Adlai Stevenson , Speech at the University of Wisconsin, Madison (8 October 1952)

Stephen Stills

Birth date; January 3, 1945 in Dallas, Texas US
Alive: Yes
Career; member of Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young, folk rock/rock group
Nationality; American

Gen. Joseph Stilwell

Birth date; March 19, 1883 in Palatka, Florida, US
Death date; October 12, 1946 in San Francisco
Alive: No
Career; United States Army four-star general known for his service in China.
Nationality; American

Caskie Stinnett

Birth date; 1911 in Virginia
Death date; 1998
Alive: No
Career; writer, wrote 'Room with a View' column for 26 years
Nationality; American

Tom Stoppard

Birth date; 3 July 1937 in Czechoslovakia
Alive: Yes
Career; playwright, The Real Thing and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, and the screenplay for Shakespeare in Love.
Nationality; British

Igor Stravinsky

Birth date; June 17, 1882 in Oranienbaum (now Lomonosov), near St. Petersburg, Russia
Death date; April 6, 1971
Alive: No
Career; composer of modern classical music, a pianist and conductor
Nationality; Russian-French-American

Anna Louise Strong

Birth date; November 24 1885
Death date; March 29 1970
Alive: No
Career; twentieth-century journalist
Nationality; American

Bjarne Stroustrup

Birth date; born December 30, 1950 in Aarhus, Denmark
Alive: Yes
Career; computer scientist and the professor of Computer Science., developer of C++ language
Nationality; Danish

Janet Erskine Stuart

Birth date; 1857 in England
Death date; 1914
Alive: No
Career; Educator, leader of the Society of the Sacred Heart
Nationality; English

Robert Stuberg

Birth date;
Alive: Yes
Career; Founder and Chairman of Success.com, wealth creation author
Nationality; American

Joseph Sugarman

Birth date; in Chicago area, US
Alive: Yes
Career; Direct Marketing businessman
Nationality; American

Louise Suggs

Birth date; Sept. 7, 1923 in Atlanta, Georgia
Alive: Yes
Career; veteran golfer, cofounder of the LPGA in 1950, won 11 majors and 50 LPGA events from 1949-62.
Nationality; American

Thenostromo;
All authors S - Z done (except for problem ones)

Louis Henri Sullivan

Birth date; September 3, 1856 in Boston, US
Death date; April 14, 1924
Alive: No
Career; architect, called the "father of modernism”, mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright, considered by many as the creator of the modern skyscraper
Nationality; American

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

Birth date; 1891
Death date; 1968)
Alive: No
Career; publisher of The New York Times from 1935 to 1961
Nationality; American

I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.
~ Arthur Hays Sulzberger

Robert Smith Surtees

Birth date; 1803
Death date; March 16, 1864
Alive: No
Career; editor, novelist and sporting writer, the character of "Jorrocks” appears in much of his writing
Nationality; English

Bertha von Suttner

Birth date; June 9, 1843 in Prague (then part of Austrian empire)
Death date; June 21, 1914 in Vienna
Alive: No
Career; Novelist, pacifist, and the first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize
Nationality; Austrian

Viktor Suvorov

Birth date; born April 20, 1947
Alive: Yes
Career; Soviet intelligence officer, defected to UK in 1978, intelligence analyst and lecturer, Author
Nationality; Russian

Madame Swetchine

Birth date; 1782 in Moscow
Death date; 1857
Alive: No
Career; Roman Catholic mystic, Her Life and Works (of which the best known are "Old Age" and "Resignation” were published in 1860
Nationality; Russian

Jonathan Swift

Birth date; November 30, 1667
Death date; October 19, 1745
Alive: No
Career; writer, famous for works like Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, poetry and essays.
Nationality; Anglo-Irish

Charles Swindoll

Birth date; October 18, 1934 in El Campo, Texas, US
Alive: Yes
Career; pastor, educator and radio preacher.
Nationality; American

John Swinton

Birth date; 12 December, 1830 in Salton, Haddingtonshire, Scotland,
Death date;
Alive: No
Career; printer, journalist, editor (New York Times), leader in the movement for labor-re-forms
Nationality; American

Publilius Syrus

Birth date; 1st century BC.
Death date; 1st century BC.
Alive: No
Career; writer of mimes, All that remains of his works is a collection of Sentences (Sententiae)
Nationality; Latin

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
~Publilius Syrus

Thank you, Flametree (and also to martyrmoonlight for checking in to help).
I am caught up now (finally). Much appreciated.

Ayn Rand

Birth date; Born Alissa Zinovievna Rosenbaum on February 2 1905 in St Petersburg, Russia
Death date; March 6, 1982 in New York City
Alive: No
Career; Writer and philosopher, Developed the philosophy of objectivism
Nationality; American (naturalized in 1931)

Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man’s values, it has to be earned.
~Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.
Ayn Rand, Anthem

Dan Rather

Birth date; born October 31, 1931 in Wharton, Texas
Alive: Yes
Career; Journalist, anchor of the CBS Evening News from 1981- 2005
Nationality; American

John Ray

Birth date; November 29, 1627 in Black Notley, Essex, England.
Death date; January 17, 1705 in Black Notley, Essex, England
Alive: No
Career; naturalist,
Nationality; English

Scott Reed

Birth date; Ishmael Scott Reed Feb. 22, 1938, Chattanooga, Tenn,
Alive: Yes
Career; author of poetry, essays, and satiric novels
Nationality; African-American

Rick Reilly

Birth date; born February 3, 1958 in Boulder, Colorado
Alive: Yes
Career; sportswriter, He has won the Sportswriter of the Year award 10 times.
Nationality; American

Jules Renard

Birth date; February 22, 1864 in Châlons du Maine, Mayenne
Death date; May 22, 1910
Alive: No
Career; author and member of the Académie Goncourt,
Nationality; French

Agnes Repplier

Birth date; 1855 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Death date; 1950
Alive: No
Career; Essayist
Nationality; American

We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
~Agnes Repplier
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization
~Agnes Repplier

Mary Lou Retton

Birth date; January 24, 1968 in Fairmont, West Virginia
Alive: Yes
Career; Gymnast,
Nationality; American

Edward Rickenbacker

Birth date; October 8, 1890 in Columbus, Ohio
Death date; July 27, 1973 in Zürich
Alive: No
Career; fighter pilot
Nationality; American

Hyman Rickover

Birth date; January 27, 1900 in Maków Mazowiecki
Death date; July 8, 1986
Alive: No
Career; US Navy, known as the "Father of the Nuclear Navy”
Nationality; American

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Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves. ~Italian Proverb