Quotes from authors born on Jan 28th
If I could find a white man who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel, I could make a billion dollars.
Sam Phillips
When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.
Jackson Pollock
I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Every good painter paints what he is.
Jackson Pollock
In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings.
Ernst Lubitsch
Denzel Washington 
Li Po 
Dave Grohl 
Halle Berry 
Avery Brundage 
Arthur Koestler 
Akshay Kumar 
Joshua Chamberlain