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"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free."
Michelangelo Buonarotti
(03/06/1475
02/18/1564)
Italian painter, sculptor
"I have already given two cousins to the war, and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother."
Artemus Ward
(04/26/1834
03/06/1867)
US writer
"Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling."
Louisa May Alcott
(11/29/1832
03/06/1888)
US writer
"The term 'comics' long ago became obsolete and inaccurate. It merely defined the content of the early joke-based comical strips. 'Sequential Art' is a more accurate description of the form."
Will Eisner
(03/06/1917
01/03/2005)
US sequential artist
("The Spirit")
"I never practice my guitar... from time to time I just open the case and throw in a piece of raw meat."
Wes Montgomery
(03/06/1923
06/15/1968)
US guitarist
"If you can sell green toothpaste in this country, you can sell opera."
Sarah Caldwell
(03/06/1924
03/23/2006)
US opera conductor
"I am providing you with a copulation of answers to several questions raised..."
Marion Barry, Jr.
(03/06/1936
11/23/2014)
US mayor (Washington, DC)
"I think 'immoral' is the wrong word for [my] acts. I prefer the word 'unethical.'"
Ivan Boesky
(03/06/1937
)
US insider trader
"Opera is for a lifetime, not just a minute."
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa
(03/06/1944
)
New Zealand singer
"The crowd may be influenced easily, largely because it is a crowd."
Ivor Novello
(01/15/1893
03/06/1951)
Welsh actor
"If there is another way to skin a cat, I don't want to know about it."
Steven Kravitz
(03/06/1956
)
US comic, actor
"An unchecked ego will sooner or later be bad for business."
Shaquille O'Neal
(03/06/1972
)
US basketball player
"Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied."
Pearl S. Buck
(06/26/1892
03/06/1973)
US writer
"We actors are born at the rise of a curtain, and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of our patrons we write our new creation, and every night it is blotted out forever. What use is it then to say to our critics, 'Ah, but you should have seen me last Tuesday'?"
Micheál Mac Liammóir
(10/25/1899
03/06/1978)
English writer, actor
"I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart."
Georgia O'Keeffe
(11/15/1887
03/06/1986)
US artist
(was married to Alfred Stieglitz)
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