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"They never taste who always drink;
They always talk, who never think."
Matthew Prior
(07/21/1664
09/18/1721)
English writer
"A college is a place where pebbles are polished and diamonds dimmed."
Robert G. Ingersoll
(08/11/1833
07/21/1899)
US writer
"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."
Ernest Hemingway
(07/21/1899
07/02/1961)
US writer
(grandfather of Margaux and
Mariel Hemingway)
"Those who make a distinction between education and entertainment don't know the first thing about either."
Marshall McLuhan
(07/21/1911
12/31/1980)
Canadian writer, social critic
"There are more bad musicians than there is bad music."
Isaac Stern
(07/21/1920
09/22/2001)
Russian-US musician
"The good lawyer is the great salesman."
Janet Reno
(07/21/1938
11/07/2016)
US Secretary of State
"The phone rings and I curse.
Literary editor.
Seasonal verse."
Wendy Cope
(07/21/1945
)
English writer
"You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it."
Robin Williams
(07/21/1951
08/11/2014)
US comic, actor
"I heard you call me immature earlier. Well, you're just a big poop-head."
Jon Lovitz
(07/21/1957
)
US comic actor (SNL)
"If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and stiff portraits. That is history to me!"
G. M. Trevelyan
(02/16/1876
07/21/1962)
English historian
"Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine."
David Ogilvy
(06/23/1911
07/21/1999)
English chef, salesman, research poll assistant, secret service agent, gentleman farmer, and advertising guru
"I think, first, that there's too much music in films today."
Jerry Goldsmith
(02/10/1929
07/21/2004)
US composer
"Are you more likely to tolerate drivel than you were four years ago? I think the answer is yes. Four years of Reagan has deadened the senses against a barrage of uninterrupted nonsense."
Alexander Cockburn
(06/06/1941
07/21/2012)
Scottish writer
"Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."
E. L. Doctorow
(01/06/1931
07/21/2015)
US writer
("Ragtime")
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