Quotes from authors born in 1853
If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
Vincent Van Gogh
Will I return to England? I don't know. I'll think it over.
Lillie Langtry
Nowadays, however, we recognize that simultaneously with the typical case of a chemical reaction a typical case of catalytic effect had been studied which constitutes a limiting case.
Wilhelm Ostwald
The grandest thing has been the lifting up of the gates and the opening of the doors to the women of America, giving liberty to twenty-seven million women, thus opening to them a new and larger life and a higher ideal.
Olympia Brown
I am one of the crucified dead.
William Henry Moody
Janet Jackson 
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio 
Nicholas M. Butler 
Jaime King 
Sherman Alexie 
Italo Calvino 
Freddie Mercury 
Joely Fisher