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"Let no one expect anything of certainty from astronomy, lest if anyone take as true that which has been constructed for another use, he go away...bigger fool than when he came to it."
Nicolaus Copernicus
(02/19/1473
05/24/1543)
Polish astronomer
"Let others hail the rising sun:
I bow to that whose course is run."
David Garrick
(02/19/1717
01/20/1779)
English actor, writer
"Strange as it may seem, the power of mathematics rests on its evasion of all unnecessary thought, and on its wonderful saving of mental operations."
Ernst Mach
(02/18/1838
02/19/1916)
German scientist
(died near his birthday)
"There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book."
Carson McCullers
(02/19/1917
09/29/1967)
US writer
"Ah, stardom! They put your name on a star in the sidewalk on Hollywood Boulevard and you walk down and find a pile of dog manure on it. That tells the whole story, baby."
Lee Marvin
(02/19/1924
08/29/1987)
US actor
"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better."
Andre Gide
(11/22/1869
02/19/1951)
French writer
"People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy all her life... For the first time in her life, she's happy."
Amy Tan
(02/19/1952
)
US writer
"Language must resound with all the harmonies of music. The writer must always, at all times, find the tremulous word which captures the thing and is able to draw a sob from my soul by its very rightness. A word can be transformed into a colour, light, a smell. It is the writer's task to use it in such a way that it serves, never fails, can never be ignored. The writer must be able to revel and roll in the abundance of words. He must know not only the direct but also the secret power of a word. There are overtones and undertones to a word, and lateral echoes, too."
Knut Hamsun
(08/04/1859
02/19/1952)
Norwegian writer
"Net Neutrality is what makes the Internet so greatand so vital for innovation and creativity."
Justine Bateman
(01/14/1966
)
US actor
(sister of Jason Bateman)
"The great innovators have always been fearless... I have fallen off haystacks, out of trees, over cliffs. I have been nearly drowned, shot and hanged. I have been in countless car crashes without getting a scratch. I have been alone in an office with Louis B. Mayer."
Michael Powell
(09/30/1905
02/19/1990)
English director
"I wouldn't wish the eighties on anyone, it was the time when all that was rotten bubbled to the surface. If you were not at the receiving end of this mayhem you could be unaware of it."
Derek Jarman
(01/31/1942
02/19/1994)
English filmmaker
"Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers."
Leo Rosten
(04/11/1908
02/19/1997)
Polish-US humorist
"The U.S. brags about its political system, but the president says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else during mid-term, and something else when he leaves."
Deng Xiaoping
(08/22/1904
02/19/1997)
Chinese communist leader
"Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."
Harper Lee
(04/28/1926
02/19/2016)
US writer
"Over the years I hope I've become more of a musician and less of a guitarist."
Larry Coryell
(04/02/1943
02/19/2017)
US guitarist
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