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"Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish."

Anne Bradstreet
(03/20/1612 – 09/16/1672)
English-US writer ("The Tenth Muse, lately Sprung up in America")

"Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb."

Jean Arp
(09/16/1886 – 06/07/1966)
French artist (gallery)

"I have got the Arctic lure and will certainly go North again."

Louise Arner Boyd
(09/16/1887 – 09/14/1972)
US explorer ("The Coast of Northeast Greenland, with Hydrographic Studies in the Greenland Sea")
(died near her birthday)

"A vitamin is a substance that makes you ill if you don't eat it."

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
(09/16/1893 – 10/22/1986)
Hungarian biochemist (discovered vitamin C)

"Imagination is the highest kite one can fly."

Lauren Bacall
(09/16/1924 – 08/12/2014)
US actor ("The Big Sleep")
(was married to Humphrey Bogart, Jason Robards)

"I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow."

B. B. King
(09/16/1925 – 05/14/2015)
US blues guitarist, singer ("The Thrill Is Gone")

"Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost."

Robert H. Schuller
(09/16/1926 – 04/02/2015)
US televangelist

"The universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine."

James Jeans
(09/11/1877 – 09/16/1946)
English physicist ("Science and Music")
(died near his birthday)

"Everyone said that if you want to be a real actor, go to New York. If you want to sell out, go to LA. And I thought—I want to sell out!"

Jennifer Tilly
(09/16/1958 – )
US actor ("Bound")
(sister of Meg Tilly)

"I used to get painful crushes on really unavailable guys."

Molly Shannon
(09/16/1964 – )
US comic actor (SNL)

"In a recent Valentine's Day posting on her fan website, Britney Spears says that—oh, who cares?"

Amy Poehler
(09/16/1971 – )
US comic, writer (SNL) ("Parks and Recreation")
(was married to Will Arnett)

"I would like to be Maria, but there is Las Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity."

Maria Callas
(12/02/1923 – 09/16/1977)
US diva (in the original sense of the word) ("Carmen Habanera")

"I was a mod prince. It was the very beginnings of sequin rock and I had lots of clothes because my mother made them."

Marc Bolan
(09/30/1947 – 09/16/1977)
English singer (T. Rex) ("Get It On")

"I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come."

Richard Brautigan
(01/30/1935 – 09/16/1984)
US writer ("Trout Fishing in America")

"The curious fascination in this job is the illusion that either you are being useful or you could be—and that's so tempting."

Millicent Fenwick
(02/25/1910 – 09/16/1992)
US fashion editor, representative (NJ), diplomat ("Speaking Up")

"The space age was upon us. Everyone was thinking about rockets and wondering if maybe we would find people up there. I still wonder if we will. People (heard the song) and imagined some kind of beings."

Sheb Wooley
(04/10/1921 – 09/16/2003)
US actor, singer, songwriter ("The Purple People Eater," "Wilhelm Scream") , on "Flying Purple People Eater"

"I have never understood. I will never understand."

Virginia Hamilton Adair
(02/28/1913 – 09/16/2004)
US writer ("Ants on the Melon") , on her husband's suicide

"My thing was to out-Sly Sly Stone. Sly was definitely sly, and his sound was new, his grooves were incredible, he borrowed a lot from rock. He caught the psychedelic thing. He was bad. I could match him, though, rhythm for rhythm, horn for horn."

Norman Whitfield
(05/12/1940 – 09/16/2008)
US songwriter ("Papa Was a Rollin' Stone")

"If Attila the Hun were alive today, he'd be a drama critic."

Edward Albee
(03/12/1928 – 09/16/2016)
US playwright ("Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?")

"We need to expect to pay a price if we want to make our lives better, but more importantly, we need to expect to pay a price for just leaving things as they are."

Jane Powell
(04/01/1929 – 09/16/2021)
US actor ("Royal Wedding")

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