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"Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness."
Baltasar Gracián
(01/08/1601
12/06/1658)
Spanish philosopher
("El Criticón")
"For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received."
Storm Jameson
(01/08/1891
09/30/1986)
English writer
("Women Against Men")
"Music before all else,
and for that choose the irregular,
which is vaguer and melts better into the air..."
Paul Verlaine
(03/30/1844
01/08/1896)
French writer
("Clair de Lune")
"Tell me about yourselfyour struggles, your dreams, your telephone number."
Peter Arno
(01/08/1904
02/22/1968)
US cartoonist
"Be true to your teeth and they won't be false to you."
Soupy Sales
(01/08/1926
10/22/2009)
US actor
(father of Tony Sales and Hunt Sales)
"There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule."
Charles Osgood
(01/08/1933
)
US telejournalist
"Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over."
Elvis Presley
(01/08/1935
08/16/1977)
US singer, rock'n'roll icon
(father of Lisa Marie)
"No wedding bells for me anymore. I've been happily married to my profession for years."
Dame Shirley Bassey
(01/08/1937
)
Welsh singer
"I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road."
Stephen Hawking
(01/08/1942
03/14/2018)
English physicist
("A Brief History of Time")
"The question that is so clearly in many potential parents' minds: 'Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age?'"
Joseph A. Schumpeter
(02/08/1883
01/08/1950)
Moravian-US economist
("History of Economic Analysis")
"Wherever you arebe all there."
Jim Elliot
(10/08/1927
01/08/1956)
US missionary
"They've got only one guy who comes back from the dead. We've got millions."
Sarah Polley
(01/08/1979
)
Canadian actor
, on "Passion of the Christ" vs. "Dawn of the Dead"
"A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books."
Francois Mitterrand
(10/26/1916
01/08/1996)
French president
"When I am an old woman I shall wear purple
With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.
And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves
And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.
I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired
And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells
And run my stick along the public railings
And make up for the sobriety of my youth."
Jenny Joseph
(05/07/1932
01/08/2018)
English writer
, from "Warning"
"Basically it's the core story. About a guy having an affair with the mother of the girl he falls in love with."
Buck Henry
(12/09/1930
01/08/2020)
US actor, writer
(SNL)
, on "The Graduate"
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