Todays Dead List 08/11/2008

The Dead List August 11, 2008

“Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.”

• John Henry Newman
  (02/21/1801 – 08/11/1890)
  English cardinal

“People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.”

• Andrew Carnegie
  (11/25/1835 – 08/11/1919)
  Scottish-US industrialist, philanthropist

“An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.”

• Edith Wharton
  (01/24/1862 – 08/11/1937)
  US writer

“Don’t worry me—I am an eight ulcer man on four ulcer pay.”

• Stephen T. Early
  (08/27/1889 – 08/11/1951)
  US writer

“Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn’t have as far to fall.”

• Jackson Pollock
  (01/28/1912 – 08/11/1956)
  US painter

“I would not have gotten [to Congress] if I had not been as persistent as a hound dog worrying a bone.”

• Gracie Pfost
  (03/12/1906 – 08/11/1965)
  US Representative (ID)

“In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.”

• Alfred A. Knopf
  (09/12/1892 – 08/11/1984)
  US publisher