Quotes from authors born on Aug 8th
Of my own spirit let me be in sole though feeble mastery.
Sara Teasdale
I think I'm the first man to sit on top of the world.
Matthew Henson
Critics established a snobbery toward me.
Esther Williams
I envy people who can just look at a sunset. I wonder how you can shoot it. There is nothing more grotesque to me than a vacation.
Dustin Hoffman
My own way of thinking is to ponder long and I hope deeply on problems and for a long time which I keep away for years and years and I never really let them go.
Roger Penrose
Maxwell Anderson 
Richard O'Brien 
Colin Wilson 
R. A. Salvatore 
Timothy Spall 
Colin Hanks 
Martin Fleischmann 
Walter Lippmann