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"A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life."

John Hancock
(01/23/1737 – 10/08/1793)
US founding father

"Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion."

Stendhal
(01/23/1783 – 03/23/1842)
French writer
("The Red and the Black")

"I won't change a thing in his portrait. Is it my fault if Moore looks like a squashed egg yolk and if his face is all lopsided? Anyway, the same applies to everybody's face... There's no symmetry in nature. One eye is never exactly the same as the other, there's always a difference. We all have a more or less crooked nose and an irregular mouth."

Edouard Manet
(01/23/1832 – 04/30/1883)
French artist (Monet is here) , on his portrait of George Augustus Moore

"The mountain sheep are sweeter,
but the valley sheep are fatter;
we therefore deem it meeter
to carry off the latter."

Thomas Love Peacock
(10/18/1785 – 01/23/1866)
English writer
("Nightmare Abbey")

"Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day."

Charles Kingsley
(06/12/1819 – 01/23/1875)
English clergy
("The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby")

"Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise."

Phillips Brooks
(12/13/1835 – 01/23/1893)
US clergyman

"Swift justice demands more than just swiftness."

Potter Stewart
(01/23/1915 – 12/07/1985)
US Supreme Court justice

"There is currently a formula for success in the entertainment medium, that is: beat it to death if it succeeds."

Ernie Kovacs
(01/23/1919 – 01/13/1962)
US TV pioneer

"[Burt Lancaster] couldn't pick up an ashtray before discussing his motivation for an hour or so."

Jeanne Moreau
(01/23/1928 – 07/31/2017)
French actor (was married to William Friedkin)

"Get my Swan costume ready."

Anna Pavlova
(02/12/1881 – 01/23/1931)
Russian dancer , last words

"That nonchalant attempt of Eve's
to fashion garments from leaves
was not, as you have heard, inspired
by shame at being unattired." *

Mrs. Harry St. Clair Zogbaum
(05/16/1888 – 01/23/1941)
US writer

"Excuse me, my leg has gone to sleep. Do you mind if I join it?"

Alexander Woollcott
(01/19/1887 – 01/23/1943)
US writer (died near his birthday)
("Shouts and Murmurs")

"I run; I am a coward at heart. I swear, when I smell violence or aggression the coward comes out in me. I have no desire to fight anybody except myself."

Rutger Hauer
(01/23/1944 – 07/19/2019)
Dutch actor

"Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly."

Pierre Bonnard
(10/03/1867 – 01/23/1947)
French artist

"We ask for nothing that is not right, and herein lies the great power of our demand."

Paul Robeson
(04/09/1898 – 01/23/1976)
US actor, singer, activist

"This is a thousand times more frightening than 'The Exorcist.' I intend to cover it with mayonnaise."

Salvador Dali
(05/11/1904 – 01/23/1989)
Spanish surrealist , on being presented with an inflatable statue of Bugs Bunny

"Rich means you have to stay there to maintain it."

Nell Carter
(09/13/1948 – 01/23/2003)
US actor

"I was impressed with the potential positive relationship between grandparents and grandchildren, so I chose an elderly character."

Captain Kangaroo
(06/27/1927 – 01/23/2004)
US entertainer

"Today I have a strong desire to photograph women clothed from head to foot with hardly an inch of flesh. It will be a challenge to work under such restraints."

Helmut Newton
(10/31/1920 – 01/23/2004
German-Australian photographer

"For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off."

Johnny Carson
(10/23/1925 – 01/23/2005)
US Tonight Show host

"I can't die. It would ruin my image."

Jack LaLanne
(09/26/1914 – 01/23/2011)
US exercise maven

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