People
- Aubrey Hornsby (1895–1981), American U.S. Army officer and aviation pioneer
- Brian Hornsby (born 1954), English footballer
- Bruce Hornsby (born 1954), American musician
- Dan Hornsby (1900–1951), American bluegrass musician
- Ernest C. Hornsby (born 1936), Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama
- J. William Hornsby (1927–2007), mayor of Newport News, Virginia
- Jennifer Hornsby (born 1951), British philosopher
- Nikki Hornsby, American singer-songwriter, musician
- Rogers Hornsby (1896–1963), American major league baseball player
- Thomas Hornsby (1733—1810), British astronomer and mathematician
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“I went to a literary gathering once.... The place was filled with people who looked as if they had been scraped up out of drains. The ladies ran to draped plush dresses—for Art; to wreaths of silken flowerets in the hair—for Femininity; and, somewhere between the two adornments, to chain-drive pince-nez—for Astigmatism. The gentlemen were small and somewhat in need of dusting.”
—Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)
“In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)
“A novel which survives, which withstands and outlives time, does do something more than merely survive. It does not stand still. It accumulates round itself the understanding of all these persons who bring to it something of their own. It acquires associations, it becomes a form of experience in itself, so that two people who meet can often make friends, find an approach to each other, because of this one great common experience they have had ...”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)