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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 (gallery)

"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 ("Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures")

"My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season."

Mary Todd Lincoln
(12/13/1818 – 07/16/1882)
US First Lady (20)
(was married to Abraham Lincoln)

"Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization."

Edmond Huot de Goncourt
(05/26/1822 – 07/16/1896)
French writer ("La Maison d'un Artiste")
(brother of Jules-Alfred Hout de Goncourt)

"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 ("The Lady Eve")
(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 ("Kitty Foyle")

"A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar."

Anita Brookner
(07/16/1928 – 03/10/2016)
English writer ("Hotel du Lac")

"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 ("The Stepdaughter")
(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 ("Cautionary Tales for Children")

"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 ("Fast Times at Ridgemont High")
(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) ("Elf")

"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 ("Cat's in the Cradle")

"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 ("Untitled")

"The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind."

May Sarton
(05/03/1912 – 07/16/1995)
US writer ("The Fur Person")
(portrait by Polly Thayer Starr)

"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 ("Mean Town Blues") , on possible reasons for his early success
(brother of Edgar Winter)

"I'm like my zombies. I won't stay dead!"

George A. Romero
(02/04/1940 – 07/16/2017)
US director ("Night of the Living Dead" et al)

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