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"...and I should desire that the last word which I pronounce in this Academy, and from this place, might be the name of Michael Angelo."
Sir Joshua Reynolds
(07/16/1723
02/23/1792)
English artist
"I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art."
Mary Baker Eddy
(07/16/1821
12/03/1910)
US evangelist, founder of Christian Science
"My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth."
Barbara Stanwyck
(07/16/1907
01/20/1990)
US actor
(was married to Robert Taylor)
"My mother told me I was dancing before I was born. She could feel my toes tapping wildly inside her for months."
Ginger Rogers
(07/16/1911
04/25/1995)
US actor, dancer
"A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar."
Anita Brookner
(07/16/1928
03/10/2016)
English writer
"She took one of her poodle's charcoal biscuits out of the packet and ate it herself. 'Either these are quite delicious or quite disgusting. Like many things in life, it's rather hard to tell which,' she said."
Lady Caroline Blackwood
(07/16/1931
02/14/1996)
English writer
(was married to Robert Lowell)
"When I am dead, I hope it may be said:
'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.'"
Hilaire Belloc
(07/27/1870
07/16/1953)
French writer
"I feel really strongly that if people spend a lot of money on something, they shouldn't see it on 400 other people."
Phoebe Cates
(07/16/1963
)
US actor
(married to Kevin Kline)
"If I'm on the phone with you a year from now talking about how I'm now a substitute school teacher, then it didn't work out... I'll miss just about every part of it (life in New York), good or bad. I'll miss getting picked up by the police, urinating on cars in public, things like that."
Will Ferrell
(07/16/1967
)
US actor (SNL)
"Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people."
Harry Chapin
(12/07/1942
07/16/1981)
US singer, songwriter
"I dislike a picture that is too suave or too skilfully done. But, contrariwise, I also dislike a picture that looks too inept or blundering."
Robert Motherwell
(01/24/1915
07/16/1991)
US artist
"The streets are safe in Philadelphia; it's only the people that make them unsafe."
Frank Rizzo
(10/23/1920
07/16/1991)
US mayor (Philadelphia)
"The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind."
May Sarton
(05/03/1912
07/16/1995)
US writer
(portrait by Polly Thayer Starr)
"When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little."
Sir Stephen Spender
(02/28/1909
07/16/1995)
English writer
"My music being blacker than any other white musician's and more technical than black musicians. I try to compromise between the primitive and the technical."
Johnny Winter
(02/23/1944
07/16/2014)
US guitarist
, on possible reasons for his early success
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