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"There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water."
Kate Chopin
(02/08/1850
08/22/1904)
US writer
("The Awakening")
"The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work."
Berthold Auerbach
(02/28/1812
02/08/1882)
German writer
("Auf der Höhe")
"The evolution of the capitalist style of life could be easilyand perhaps most tellinglydescribed in terms of the genesis of the modern Lounge Suit."
Joseph A. Schumpeter
(02/08/1883
01/08/1950)
Moravian-US economist
("History of Economic Analysis")
"I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it." *
Lord Brabazon
(02/08/1884
05/17/1964)
English aviator, racer
"When a woman behaves like a man, why doesn't she behave like a nice man?"
Dame Edith Evans
(02/08/1888
10/14/1976)
English actor
"Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence."
King Vidor
(02/08/1894
11/01/1982)
US writer-director
, from the 1928 film 'The Crowd'
"The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster."
Elizabeth Bishop
(02/08/1911
10/06/1979)
US writer
("In the Waiting Room")
"Those who love Mankind learn to hate men."
Richard Dehmel
(11/18/1863
02/08/1920)
German writer
("Weib und Welt (Woman and World)")
"America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society."
Peter Kropotkin
(12/09/1842
02/08/1921)
Russian writer
("The Conquest of Bread")
"I think we're glazing eyes all across America."
Ted Koppel
(02/08/1940
)
England-born US telejournalist
"The only people who ever called me a rebel were people who wanted me to do what they wanted."
Nick Nolte
(02/08/1941
)
US actor
"It's usually, my people speak to your people and then they speak around each other and trade calls for weeks."
Mary Steenburgen
(02/08/1953
)
US actor
(was married to Malcolm McDowell;
is married to Ted Danson)
"After all my years, there are two things I've never got used tohaggling with a player over his contract and telling a boy he's got to go back."
Connie Mack
(12/22/1862
02/08/1956)
US baseball manager
"Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin."
John von Neumann
(12/28/1903
02/08/1957)
Hungarian mathematician
"The role we can play every day, if we try, is to take the whole experience of every day and shape it to involve American man. It is our job to interest him in his community and to give his ideas the excitement they should have."
John Hay Whitney
(08/17/1904
02/08/1982)
US gazillionaire
"Fox News has been losing a lot of viewers lately, and may they rest in peace."
Cecily Strong
(02/08/1984
)
US comic actor (SNL)
"This is no time to pull the rug out in the middle of the stream." *
Silvio Conte
(11/09/1921
02/08/1991)
US Representative (MA)
"I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same."
Iris Murdoch
(07/15/1919
02/08/1999)
Irish writer
("Under the Net")
"I'm sick of being accused of gold-digging. It just so happens I get turned on by liver spots."
Anna Nicole Smith
(11/28/1967
02/08/2007)
US stripper, playmate, golddigger
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