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"The more he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
(05/25/1803
04/27/1882)
US writer
"Buy old masters. They bring in better prices than young mistresses."
Lord Beaverbrook
(05/25/1879
06/09/1964)
Canadian statesman, publisher
"The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost."
Bennett Cerf
(05/25/1898
08/27/1971)
US humorist
"What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible."
Theodore Roethke
(05/25/1908
08/01/1963)
US writer
"The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet."
Theodore Martin Hesburgh
(05/25/1917
02/26/2015)
US priest
"I grew up without knowing anything about prejudice; my mother saw to that. If parents would keep prejudice and intolerance to themselves for one generation, we would have a different world."
Jeanne Crain
(05/25/1925
12/14/2003)
US actor
"My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used to do. It can't."
Beverly Sills
(05/25/1929
07/02/2007)
US opera singer
"I started all over again on page 1, circling the 262 pages like a vulture looking for live flesh to scavenge."
John Gregory Dunne
(05/25/1932
12/30/2003)
US writer
(was married to Joan Didion)
"Nobody knows a hit before it's a hit."
Tom T. Hall
(05/25/1936
)
US singer, songwriter
"So that was a very defining point of that relationship."
Sir Ian McKellen
(05/25/1939
)
English actor
, on his mother's death when he was 12
"I hate that word (cute). It's the most awful word in the language."
Karen Valentine
(05/25/1947
)
US actor (from Sebastopol, CA)
"Everyone gets frustrated and aggressive, and I'd sooner take my aggression out on a guitar than on a person."
Paul Weller
(05/25/1958
)
English singer, songwriter, guitarist (the Jam)
(also see Rick Buckler)
"Marriage can be viewed as the waiting room for death."
Mike Myers
(05/25/1963
)
Canadian comic, actor (SNL)
"Vibrators. I think they are great. They keep you out of stupid sex. I'd pitch them to anybody."
Anne Heche
(05/25/1969
)
US actor
(was partner with Ellen DeGeneres)
"I think there's such a thing as a performance gene. If it's in your DNA it needs to come out."
Cillian Murphy
(05/25/1976
)
Irish actor
"Give exceeding thanks for the mystery which remains a mystery stillthe veil that hides you from the infinite, which makes it possible for you to believe in what you cannot see."
Robert Nathan
(01/02/1894
05/25/1985)
US writer
("Portrait of Jennie")
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