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"Sir, you have tasted two whole worms; you have hissed all my mystery lectures and been caught fighting a liar in the quad, you will leave Oxford by the next town drain."
Rev. William A. Spooner
(07/22/1844
08/29/1930)
English religious lesdyxic
"If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint."
Edward Hopper
(07/22/1882
05/15/1967)
US artist
"One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways."
Dr. Karl A. Menninger
(07/22/1893
07/18/1990)
US scientist, psychologist
(died near his birthday)
"Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the 1000 small uncaring ways."
Stephen Vincent Benet
(07/22/1898
03/13/1943)
US writer
"Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away."
Edward Dahlberg
(07/22/1900
02/27/1977)
US writer
"Everyone knows that a man can always marry even if he reaches 102, is penniless, and has all his faculties gone. There is always some woman willing to take a chance on him."
Amy Vanderbilt
(07/22/1908
12/27/1974)
US etiquette maven
"The wind doesn't bother me. I'm in the U. S. Senate."
Bob Dole
(07/22/1923
)
US senator (KS), presidential candidate
Illustration by Zach Trenholm
"I train religiously."
Sister Madonna Buder
(07/22/1930
)
US nun and triathlete
, on how she manages to stay fit at 70
"If little else, the brain is an educational toy."
Tom Robbins
(07/22/1932
)
US writer
(Photo courtesy Carl Studna)
"I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off."
Alex Trebek
(07/22/1940
11/08/2020)
Canadian Jeopardy host
"If you got maggots in your brain, everything you think is gonna be rotten."
George Clinton
(07/22/1941
)
US singer, funk legend
"I've led a pretty clean life so I've aged pretty well."
Bobby Sherman
(07/22/1943
)
US singer, actor, policeman
"Being a screenwriter in Hollywood is like being a eunuch at an orgy. Worse, actually, at least the eunuch is allowed to watch."
Albert Brooks
(07/22/1947
)
US actor, writer (SNL)
"Weirdness is not my game. I'm just a square boy from Wisconsin."
Willem Dafoe
(07/22/1955
)
US actor
(Portrait by Taru Sterling)
"Latins for Republicans. It's like roaches for Raid."
John Leguizamo
(07/22/1964
)
Colombian comic, actor
"I've tried writing. Two days later I'd go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap?"
Dennis Farina
(02/29/1944
07/22/2013)
US actor
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