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"The mechanic should sit down among levers, screws, wedges, wheels, etc. like a poet among the letters of the alphabet, considering them as the exhibition of his thoughts; in which a new arrangement transmits a new idea to the world."
Robert Fulton
(11/14/1765
02/25/1815)
US inventor
("North River Steamboat")
"I'll take Vesuvius!"
Enrico Caruso
(02/25/1873
08/02/1921)
Italian singer
, after the 1906 San Francisco quake (he never returned to SF)
(affair with Alma Schindler)
"The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year."
John Foster Dulles
(02/25/1888
05/24/1959)
US Secretary of State
"One has to look out for engineersthey begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb."
Marcel Pagnol
(02/25/1895
04/18/1974)
French playwright
("Marius")
"Thousands upon thousands of persons have studied disease. Almost no one has studied health."
Adelle Davis
(02/25/1904
05/31/1974)
US nutritionist
("Let's Cook It Right")
Fellow Congressperson: "I've always thought of women as kissable, cuddly, and smelling good."
Millicent Fenwick: "That's what I feel about men. I only hope you haven't been disappointed as often as I have."
(02/25/1910
09/16/1992)
US fashion editor, representative (NJ), diplomat
"What most of us are after, when we have a picture taken, is a good natural-looking picture that doesn't resemble us."
Peg Bracken
(02/25/1918
10/20/2007)
US writer
("The I Hate to Cook Book")
"If I can't play for big money, I play for a little money. And if I can't play for a little money, I stay in bed that day."
Bobby Riggs
(02/25/1918
10/25/1995)
US tennis freak
"A gossip is someone who talks to you about others, a bore is someone who talks to you about himself, and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself." *
Lisa Kirk
(02/25/1925
11/11/1990)
US actor
"If you're a horse, and someone gets on you, and falls off, and then gets right back on you, I think you should buck him off right away."
Jack Handey
(02/25/1949
)
US comic, writer (SNL)
"You can't be a politician with a guitar."
John Doe
(02/25/1953
)
US musician (X), actor
(was married to and bandmates with Exene Cervenka)
"We were called The Toilets originallywe were flushed with success."
Mike Peters
(02/25/1959
)
English musician
, on his band "The Alarm"
"For me, it works to my advantage when people think I'm stupid. If somebody who disdains you or wants to control you underestimates you, you can play their game right back."
Veronica Webb
(02/25/1965
)
US supermodel
"I don't do T&A very well because I haven't got much of either."
Téa Leoni
(02/25/1966
)
US actor
(was married to David Duchovny)
"I was told I had to gain a lot of weight because Hobbits are very portly. Peter [Jackson] is forever suggesting I have more food. 'A little more food for Mr. Astin.'"
Sean Astin
(02/25/1971
)
US actor
(son of Patty Duke,
adoptive son of John Astin)
"In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season."
Bill Vaughan
(10/08/1915
02/25/1977)
US writer
"As science pushes forward, ignorance and superstition gallop around the flanks and bite science in the rear with big dark teeth."
Philip Jose Farmer
(01/26/1918
02/25/2009)
US writer
("Riverworld")
"When you start out as a filmmaker, you do parodies, because you can't really compete on a studio level."
Bill Paxton
(05/17/1955
02/25/2017)
US actor
("Twister")
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