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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 ("Venice Preserv'd")

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 ("Water Music")

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

Anne 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 ("A Study of History")

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

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

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

John Singer Sargent
(01/12/1856 – 04/14/1925)
Italian-born US artist ("Portrait of Madame X")

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

Rod Steiger
(04/14/1925 – 07/09/2002)
US actor ("In the Heat of the Night")

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

Loretta Lynn
(04/14/1932 – )
US singer ("Coal Miner's Daughter")

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

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

"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) ("Highway Star")

"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) ("Weird Science")

"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 ("The Pianist") , 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 ("Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde")

"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 ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer")
(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 ("The Second Sex")
(long-time partner of Jean-Paul Sartre)

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