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"Anno 1670, not far from Cirencester, was an apparition: being demanded, whether 'a good spirit, or a bad?' returned no answer, but disappeared with a curious perfume and most melodious twang."
John Aubrey
(03/12/1626
06/07/1697)
English writer
"Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth."
William Warburton
(12/24/1698
06/07/1779)
English bishop, literary critic
"Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge."
Paul Gauguin
(06/07/1848
05/08/1903)
French painter
"Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible."
Hosea Ballou
(04/30/1771
06/07/1852)
US theologian
"But Nature cast me for the part she found me best fitted for, and I have had to play it, and must play it till the curtain falls."
Edwin Booth
(11/13/1833
06/07/1893)
US actor
"When he's late for dinner, I know he's either having an affair or lying dead in the street. I always hope it's the street."
Jessica Tandy
(06/07/1909
09/11/1994)
US actor
, on husband Hume Cronyn
"I once shook hands with Pat Boone, and my whole right side sobered up."
Dean Martin
(06/07/1917
12/25/1995)
Italian-US singer, actor
"Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars."
Gwendolyn Brooks
(06/07/1917
12/03/2000)
US writer
"I believe some people are just too damn smart to write fiction."
Harry Crews
(06/07/1935
03/28/2012)
US writer
"I like to wake up each morning feeling a new man."
Jean Harlow
(03/03/1911
06/07/1937)
US actor
"[The Libyan Army] is capable of destroying America and breaking its nose."
Muammar al-Gaddafi
(06/07/1942
10/20/2011)
Libyan military, political leader
"It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend."
Nikki Giovanni
(06/07/1943
)
US writer
"We all know we are unique individuals, but we tend to see others as representatives of groups."
Deborah Tannen
(06/07/1945
)
US sociologist
"In Los Angeles, it's like they jog for two hours a day and then they think they're morally right. That's when you want to choke people, you know?"
Liam Neeson
(06/07/1952
)
Irish actor
"They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness."
Louise Erdrich
(06/07/1954
)
US writer
(was married to Michael Anthony Dorris)
"What's missing from pop music is danger."
Prince
(06/07/1958
04/21/2016)
US singer, songwriter
"I was what they called a feature player, never a star. They say I was in 500 films, everything but the newsreels."
ZaSu Pitts
(01/03/1894
06/07/1963)
US actor
"Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation... Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation."
Jean Arp
(09/16/1886
06/07/1966)
French artist
"If, with the literate, I am
impelled to try an epigram
I never seek to take the credit;
we all assume that Oscar said it."
Dorothy Parker
(08/22/1893
06/07/1967)
US writer
"When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either."
Leo Burnett
(10/21/1891
06/07/1971)
US advertising maven
"Sometimes you're working with somebody, and you can tell they're just waiting to say their line."
Bill Hader
(06/07/1978
)
US comic actor (SNL)
"To enter life by way of the vagina is as good a way as any."
Henry Miller
(12/26/1891
06/07/1980)
US writer
(relationship with Anais Nin)
"Religion to me has always been the wound, not the bandage."
Dennis Potter
(05/17/1935
06/07/1994)
English writer
"In Britain, any degree of success is met with envy and resentment."
Christopher Lee
(05/27/1922
06/07/2015)
English actor
"If you have to talk about fashion, then you are not in it." *
Michaele Vollbracht
(11/17/1947
06/07/2018)
US designer
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