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"For an actress to be a success she must have the face of Venus, the brains of Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros."
Ethel Barrymore
(08/15/1879
06/18/1959)
US actor
(sister of John and
Lionel,
aunt of John Drew,
great-aunt of Drew)
"A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle."
Edna Ferber
(08/15/1885
04/16/1968)
US writer
"Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself someday."
Lillian Carter
(08/15/1898
10/30/1983)
US first family
(mother of Jimmy Carter,
grandmother of Amy)
, at age 85
"I've been in show business my whole life. Why start something new now?"
Rose Marie
(08/15/1923
12/28/2017)
US comic, actor (Dick Van Dyke Show)
, on retirement plans
"I don't believe that a lot of the things I hear on the air today are going to be played for as long a time as Coleman Hawkins records or Brahms concertos."
Oscar Peterson
(08/15/1925
12/23/2007)
Canadian pianist, composer
"Mirrors are the essence of movies."
Nicolas Roeg
(08/15/1928
11/23/2018)
English director
Long-winded speaker at a charity luncheon, after finally finishing: "I am sorry, Mr. Toastmaster, that I went beyond the limit, but I left my watch at home."
Will Rogers: "Don't you even have a pocket calendar?"
(11/04/1879
08/15/1935)
US humorist
"Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world."
Peter York
(08/15/1942
)
English drummer?
"If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?"
Linda Ellerbee
(08/15/1944
)
US TV reporter
"Sunshine can burn you, food can poison you, words can condemn you, pictures can insult you; music cannot punishonly bless."
Artur Schnabel
(04/17/1882
08/15/1951)
Austrian pianist, composer
"Everything we see hides another thing; we always want to see what is hidden by what we see."
René Magritte
(11/21/1898
08/15/1967)
Belgian painter
"Start young. Throw your arms around ladies' knees. As you get older it will get more interesting."
Edward Shepherd Mead
(04/26/1914
08/15/1994)
US writer
, on succeeding with women
"If you buy my lamp, you won't need drugs."
Edward Craven Walker
(07/04/1918
08/15/2000)
US nudist, inventor
, on his invention, the Lava Lamp
"There is a thin line between politics and theatricals."
Julian Bond
(01/14/1940
08/15/2015)
US Rep (GA)
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