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"A little, round, fat, oily man of God."
James Thomson
(09/11/1700
08/27/1748)
Scottish writer
"I would give nothing for that man's religion whose very dog and cat are not the better for it."
Sir Rowland Hill
(12/03/1795
08/27/1879)
English clergyman, writer, postmaster
"Don't worry meI am an eight-ulcer man on four-ulcer pay." *
Stephen T. Early
(08/27/1889
08/11/1951)
US writer, press secretary
"All critics should be assassinated."
Man Ray
(08/27/1890
11/18/1976)
US artist, photographer
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity."
Frank Leahy
(08/27/1908
06/21/1973)
US football coach (Notre Dame)
"I didn't have to work till I was three. But after that, I never stopped."
Martha Raye
(08/27/1916
10/19/1994)
US actor
"It seems the brighter you are, the deeper the hole you get into."
Tuesday Weld
(08/27/1943
)
US actor
"Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic."
Cesare Pavese
(09/09/1908
08/27/1950)
Italian writer
"They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it?"
Jeanette Winterson
(08/27/1959
)
English writer
"All womanhood is hampered today because the world on which it is emerging is a world that tries to worship both virgins and mothers and in the end despises motherhood and despoils virgins."
W. E. B. du Bois
(02/23/1868
08/27/1963)
US sociologist
"They laughed at Joan of Arc, but she went right ahead and built it."
Gracie Allen
(07/26/1895
08/27/1964)
US comic, actor
(was married to George Burns)
"A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and fifty times: It is a beautiful catastrophe."
Le Corbusier
(10/06/1887
08/27/1965)
Swiss architect
"Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance."
Bennett Cerf
(05/25/1898
08/27/1971)
US humorist
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite."
Sam Levenson
(12/28/1911
08/27/1980)
US writer
"What I am trying to get across to you is: please take of yourselves and those that you love; because that is what we are here for, that's all we got, and that is all we can take with us. Are you with me?"
Stevie Ray Vaughan
(10/03/1954
08/27/1990)
US musician
(brother of Jimmie)
"In comparison with the industrial age, the information era is at the steam engine stage. By the time information systems reach jet-plane status, we will focus on utility over fads, triple our productivity, use our computers as naturally and easily as we now use our cars..."
Michael L. Dertouzos
(11/05/1936
08/27/2001)
Greek writer
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