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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 anthemwhat do you think of it?"
George Frideric Handel: "Oh your antumahwhy 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
"Man is a greater miracle than any god he ever invented."
Rod Steiger
(04/14/1925
07/09/2002)
US actor
"Comrade life,
let us
march faster,
March
faster through what's left
of the five-year plan."
Vladimir Mayakovsky
(07/19/1893
04/14/1930)
Russian poet
"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
"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
"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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