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"When Fortune smiles, I smile to think how quickly she will frown."
Robert Southwell
(??/??/1561
02/21/1595)
English writer
"Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it we must direct our lives in such a way as to please the fancy of men, avoiding what they dislike and seeking what is pleasing to them."
Benedict Spinoza
(11/24/1632
02/21/1677)
Dutch philosopher
"A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence."
Brander Matthews
(02/21/1852
03/31/1929)
US writer
"A very short one."
Jeanne Calment
(02/21/1875
08/04/1997)
French supercentenarian, longest recorded human lifespan
, on the sort of future a 120-yr-old expects
"The little I know I owe to my ignorance."
Sacha Guitry
(02/21/1885
07/24/1957)
French writer
"Sometimes it is impossible to deal with her, but most of the time she is very sweet, and if you caress her properly she will sing beautifully."
Andres Segovia
(02/21/1893
06/02/1987)
Spanish guitarist
, on the guitar
"If there are any of you at the back who do not hear me, please don't raise your hands because I am also nearsighted."
W. H. Auden
(02/21/1907
09/29/1973)
English-US writer
"As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do." *
Zachary Scott
(02/21/1914
10/03/1965)
US actor
"They nicknamed me the Oomph Girl, and I loathe that nickname! Just being known by a nickname indicates that you're not thought of as a true actress... It's just crap! If you call an actress by her looks or a reaction, then that's all she'll ever be thought of as."
Ann Sheridan
(02/21/1915
01/21/1967)
US actor
"Let the generations know that women in uniform also guaranteed their freedom."
Dr. Mary Edwards Walker
(11/26/1832
02/21/1919)
US physician, surgeon, medal of honor recipient
"I do not participate in any sport with ambulances at the bottom of a hill."
Erma Bombeck
(02/21/1927
04/22/1996)
US writer, humorist
"How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it?"
Nina Simone
(02/21/1933
04/21/2003)
US singer
"Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power."
Barbara Jordan
(02/21/1936
01/17/1996)
US Senator, Representative (TX)
"The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things."
Jilly Cooper
(02/21/1937
)
English writer
"Who gets the bird, the hunter or the dog?"
John R. Lewis
(02/21/1940
07/17/2020)
US civil rights leader, Representative (GA)
"A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded."
Tyne Daly
(02/21/1946
)
US actor
"I do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously."
Alan Rickman
(02/21/1946
01/14/2016)
English actor
"The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you."
David Foster Wallace
(02/21/1962
09/12/2008)
US writer
"When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?"
Chuck Palahniuk
(02/21/1962
)
US writer
("Fight Club")
"Early in life I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise."
Malcolm X
(05/19/1925
02/21/1965)
US spiritual leader
"I just accepted them as a great accessory to every outfit."
Jennifer Love Hewitt
(02/21/1979
)
US actor
, on her breasts
"Judging people you don't know for things you don't understand is just really stupid."
Ellen Page
(02/21/1987
)
Canadian actor
"Life forms illogical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?"
Dame Margot Fonteyn
(05/18/1919
02/21/1991)
English dancer
"I've got black friends. I employ black people. I don't employ them because they are black; I employ them because they are the best people who applied for the cotton-picking job."
Evan Mecham
(05/12/1924
02/21/2008)
US racist Governor (AZ)
"I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right."
Billy Graham
(11/07/1918
02/21/2018)
US evangelist
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