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
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
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
Clement Attlee 
Wyndham Lewis 
Duane Chapman 
LL Cool J 
James Earl Jones 
Marc Singer 
Charles Barkley 
Arthur Phillip