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"About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don't go by one text only."
Saint Teresa of Avila
(03/28/1515
10/04/1582)
Spanish nun, mystic, writer
"A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains."
Maxim Gorky
(03/28/1868
06/18/1936)
Russian writer
"Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains."
Paul Whiteman
(03/28/1890
12/29/1967)
US bandleader
"I went out there [Hollywood] for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that hired me was out of town Tuesday."
Nelson Algren
(03/28/1909
05/09/1981)
US writer
(The Man with the Golden Arm)
"I had never been as resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think."
Jane Rule
(03/28/1931
11/27/2007)
Canadian writer
"Even now a team of linguists is at work translating Don Revie's writings on the game [of football] from the original gibberish into Arabic."
Michael Parkinson
(03/28/1935
)
English writer, broadcaster
"If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know."
Mario Vargas Llosa
(03/28/1936
)
Peruvian writer
"You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits."
Neil Kinnock
(03/28/1942
)
English politician
"There are no handles to a horse, but the 1910 model has a string to each side of its face for turning its head when there is anything you want it to see."
Stephen Leacock
(12/30/1869
03/28/1944)
Canadian writer
"Be different, stand out, and work your butt off."
Reba McEntire
(03/28/1955
)
US singer
"A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by."
Christopher Morley
(05/05/1890
03/28/1957)
US writer
"You can never tell what's in a woman's mind,
And if she's from Harlem, there's no use o' tryin'"
W. C. Handy
(11/16/1873
03/28/1958)
US composer
"Incongruity, they say, is one of the main ingredients of humor. Maybe it's because everybody can feel superior to me. I honestly don't know."
Emmett Kelly
(12/09/1898
03/28/1979)
US performer
"It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream."
Benjamin E. Mays
(08/01/1894
03/28/1984)
US educator
"Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowersand never succeeding."
Marc Chagall
(07/06/1887
03/28/1985)
French painter
"And now, I'm just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time."
Lady Gaga
(03/28/1986
)
US singer
"There are more dead people than living, and their numbers are increasing."
Eugene Ionesco
(11/26/1909
03/28/1994)
Roumanian playwright
"Parentsespecially step-parentsare sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years."
Anthony Powell
(12/21/1905
03/28/2000)
English writer
"Teaching, real teaching, isor ought to bea messy business."
Harry Crews
(06/07/1935
03/28/2012)
US writer
"I don't think you'll ever get enough picking."
Earl Scruggs
(01/06/1924
03/28/2012)
US bluegrass great
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