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"Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire."
Jean de la Fontaine
(07/08/1621
04/13/1695)
French writer
"I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem."
Fitz-Greene Halleck
(07/08/1790
11/19/1867)
US writer
"No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes."
Kathe Kollwitz
(07/08/1867
04/22/1945)
German artist
"Architecture is the art of how to waste space."
Philip Johnson
(07/08/1906
01/25/2005)
US architect
"I didn't say that I didn't say it, I said that I didn't say that I said it. I want to make that very clear."
George Romney
(07/08/1907
07/26/1995)
US governor (MI)
(father of Mitt)
"With my little band, I did everything they did with a big band. I made the blues jump."
Louis Jordan
(07/08/1908
02/04/1975)
US bandleader, rock'n'roller
"He had delusions of adequacy."
Walter Kerr
(07/08/1913
10/09/1996)
US theatre critic
, on Jay Robinson, producer and virtually star of Broadway play "Buy Me Blue Ribbons"
"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within."
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
(07/08/1926
08/24/2004)
Swiss psychiatrist
"One of my current pet theories is that the winter is a kind of evangelist, more subtle than Billy Graham, of course, but of the same stuff."
Shirley Ann Grau
(07/08/1929
08/03/2020)
US writer
"Economy is going without something you do want in case you should, some day, want something you probably don't want."
Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins
(02/09/1863
07/08/1933)
English writer
"Half the world does not know the joys of wearing cotton underwear."
Senator Phil Gramm
(07/08/1942
)
US Senator
"Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait."
A. Whitney Brown
(07/08/1952
)
US writer, actor (SNL)
"I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female president of the United States, while her husband holds the Bible and wears a silly pill box hat and matching coat."
Anna Quindlen
(07/08/1953
)
US writer
"There are two types of actors: those who say they want to be famous and those who are liars."
Kevin Bacon
(07/08/1958
)
US actor
(married to Kyra Sedgwick)
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."
Admiral Hyman G. Rickover
(01/27/1900
07/08/1986)
Poland-born military guy
"I always wanted to be a movie star. I thought it meant being famous and having breakfast in bed. I didn't know you had to be up at 4:00 a.m."
June Allyson
(10/07/1917
07/08/2006)
US actor
(was married to Dick Powell)
"I just want to do more work. Every time I step in front of a camera I feel young again. I really do. It keeps your mind active and it keeps you going."
Ernest Borgnine
(01/24/1917
07/08/2012)
US actor
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