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"Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain."

Thomas Otway
(03/03/1652 – 04/14/1685)
English writer

Dr. Maurice Greene: "Well, Sir, but my anthem—what do you think of it?"
George Frideric Handel: "Oh your antum—ah—why I did tink it vanted air, Dr. Greene."
Greene: "Air, Sir?"
Handel: "Yes, air; and so I did hang it out of de vindow."
(03/05/1685 – 04/14/1759)
German composer

"The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments."

Annie Sullivan
(04/14/1866 – 10/20/1936)
US educator (notably of Helen Keller)

"America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair."

Arnold Joseph Toynbee
(04/14/1889 – 10/22/1975)
English historian

"Poor Ingrid—speaks five languages and can't act in any of them."

Sir John Gielgud
(04/14/1904 – 05/21/2000)
English actor

"Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend."

John Singer Sargent
(01/12/1856 – 04/14/1925)
Italian-born US artist

"Man is a greater miracle than any god he ever invented."

Rod Steiger
(04/14/1925 – 07/09/2002)
US actor

"My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em."

Loretta Lynn
(04/14/1932 – )
US singer

"Men don't want any responsibility, and neither do I."

Julie Christie
(04/14/1940 – )
India-born English actor

"All I want is for my case to be heard before an impractical decision-maker."

Pete Rose
(04/14/1941 – )
US baseball (would-be) Hall of Famer

"I like leaping around onstage, as long as it's done with class."

Ritchie Blackmore
(04/14/1945 – )
English guitarist (Deep Purple, Rainbow)

"If you open that Pandora's Box, you never know what Trojan horses will jump out."

Ernest Bevin
(03/09/1881 – 04/14/1951)
English statesman

"I think that's how Chicago got started. A bunch of people in New York said, 'Gee, I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it just isn't cold enough, let's go west.'"

Richard Jeni
(04/14/1957 – 03/10/2007)
US comic

"Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one."

Rachel Carson
(05/27/1907 – 04/14/1964)
US writer, conservationist
(Silent Spring)

"I don't want to go away as an actor."

Anthony Michael Hall
(04/14/1968 – )
US actor (SNL)

"I'm running around in front of a green screen screaming, Where's the monkey? Where's the monkey? "

Adrien Brody
(04/14/1973 – )
US actor , on acting in "King Kong (2005)"

"Keep interested in others; keep interested in the wide and wonderful world. Then in a spiritual sense you will always be young."

Fredric March
(08/31/1897 – 04/14/1975)
US actor

"I don't understand why James Bond has to be a man all the time. When Pierce Brosnan retires, why not one of us?"

Sarah Michelle Gellar
(04/14/1977 – )
US actor (married to Freddie Prinze, Jr.)

"It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension... Death does away with time."

Simone de Beauvoir
(01/09/1908 – 04/14/1986)
French writer (long-time partner of Jean-Paul Sartre)
("The Second Sex")

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