Originally Posted by Shayne Parkinson
Quotes from famous people about other famous people. One point for the person or said (or wrote) it, and one point for the person it was said (or written) about.
1. Shakespeare — the nearest thing in incarnation to the eye of God. - Laurence Olivier on Shakespeare. Poohbear 1 point, Bilbo, 1 point.
2. Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of revolution.
- Napoleon on George Washington. Bookpossum, 2 points
3. We felt that the public, and especially the children, like animals that are cute and little. I think we are rather indebted to Charlie Chaplin for the idea. We wanted something appealing, and we thought of a tiny bit of a mouse that would have something of the wistfulness of Chaplin — a little fellow trying to do the best he could.
- Walt Disney on Charlie Chaplin. pdurrant, 2 points
4. Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.
- Mark Twain on Jane Austen. Poohbear, 2 points
5. It is fun to be in the same decade with you. - Roosevelt to Churchill. Orlok, 2 points
6. My Princess of Parallelograms
- Byron on Annabella Milbanke (his future wife). Fat Abe, 2 points
7. He had a large loving mind and the strongest sympathy with the poorer classes. He felt sure a better feeling, and much greater union of classes, would take place in time. And I pray earnestly it may.
- Queen Victoria on Charles Dickens. Poohbear 1 point, Bookpossum, 1 point.
8. Lady writer on the TV - Mark Knopfler on Marina Warner.
9. The man who tunnelled into the very material of God
- Einstein on Rutherford. Kumabjorn, 1 point; Bilbo, 1 point
10. She is magnificently ugly — deliciously hideous... in this vast ugliness resides a most powerful beauty which, in a very few minutes steals forth and charms the mind, so that you end as I ended, in falling in love with her.
- Henry James on George Eliot. Poohbear, 2 points
Scores so far:
Poohbear 6 points
Bookpossum 3 points
Bilbo, Fat Abe, Orlok, pdurrant 2 points
Kumabjorn 1 point
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