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"Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason."
Sir Thomas More
(02/07/1478
07/06/1535)
English writer
"He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favour of two."
Charles Dickens
(02/07/1812
06/09/1870)
English writer
"Men may not get all they pay for in this world, but they must certainly pay for all they get."
Frederick Douglass
(02/07/1818
02/20/1895)
US abolitionist, writer
"Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics."
Godfrey Harold Hardy
(02/07/1877
12/01/1947)
English mathematician
"We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority."
Alfred Adler
(02/07/1870
05/28/1937)
Austrian psychologist
"Down South where I come from you don't go around hitting too many white keys."
Eubie Blake
(02/07/1887
02/12/1983)
US songwriter
(died near his birthday)
, on why his songs contained so many sharps and flats.
"The cowboys have a way of trussing up a steer or a pugnacious bronco which fixes the brute so that it can neither move nor think. This is the hog-tie, and it is what Euclid did to geometry."
Eric Temple Bell
(02/07/1883
12/21/1960)
Scottish-US mathematician
"I founded Wang Laboratories to show that Chinese could excel at things other than running laundries and restaurants."
An Wang
(02/07/1920
03/24/1990)
Chinese electronic engineer
"I used to have a speech impediment, but we got divorced."
Bill Hoest
(02/07/1926
11/15/1988)
US cartoonist (The Lockhorns)
"The real problem is what to do with problem solvers after the problem is solved."
Gay Talese
(02/07/1932
)
US writer
"Most people say, 'Well, Earl, you sing the blues,' or however they want to categorize it. I just sing songs. I'm a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it."
Earl King
(02/07/1934
04/17/2003)
US singer, songwriter (Come On)
"I observe that there are two entirely different theories according to which individual men seek to get on in the world. One theory leads a man to pull down everybody around him in order to climb up on them to a higher place. The other leads a man to help everybody around him in order that he may go up with them."
Elihu Root
(02/15/1845
02/07/1937)
US Secretary of State, Secretary of War
"You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements."
Norman Douglas
(12/08/1868
02/07/1952)
Austrian writer
"The future is much like the present, only longer."
Dan Quisenberry
(02/07/1953
09/30/1998)
US baseball player
"How many people here have telekinetic powers? Raise my hand."
Emo Philips
(02/07/1956
)
US comic
"If I don't need the money, I don't work."
James Spader
(02/07/1960
)
US actor
"Guns don't kill people, people kill people, and monkeys do too (if they have a gun)."
Eddie Izzard
(02/07/1962
)
Yemen-born English comic
"I just wake up and say, 'You're a bum, go do something worthwhile today.'"
Garth Brooks
(02/07/1962
)
US singer
"The goal of a tick is NOT to become a dog."
Anthony Consani
(02/07/1963
)
US friend of quotekeeper
, on corporate takeovers
"Do you know what the good side of crack is? If you're up at the right hour, you can get a VCR for $1.50. You can furnish your whole house for $10.95."
Chris Rock
(02/07/1965
)
US comic, actor
(SNL)
"I don't believe that old cliche that good things come to those who wait. I think good things come to those who want something so bad they can't sit still."
Ashton Kutcher
(02/07/1978
)
US actor
(married to Mila Kunis;
was married to Demi Moore)
"It was nice to go through that and survive it. I think we were pretty levelheaded compared to some people." *
"Lonesome" Dave Peverett
(04/16/1943
02/07/2000)
English bassist
, on success with Foghat
"The only thing a magician ever really does is to ask one question: 'What's real and what's illusion?'"
Doug Henning
(05/03/1947
02/07/2000)
Canadian magician
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