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"If there's one thing for which I admire you, it's your original discovery of the Ten Commandments."
Thomas B. Reed
(10/18/1839
12/07/1902)
US Rep (ME)
, to Teddy Roosevelt
"An improper mind is a perpetual feast."
Logan Pearsall Smith
(10/18/1865
03/02/1946)
English-US writer
("Words and Idioms")
"On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
Charles Babbage
(12/26/1791
10/18/1871)
English mathematician
"There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live."
James Truslow Adams
(10/18/1878
05/18/1949)
US historian
("The Epic of America")
Singer: "You know, my dear, I insured my voice for fifty thousand dollars."
Miriam Hopkins: "That's wonderful. And what did you do with the money?"
(10/18/1902
10/09/1972)
US actor
"If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior."
A. J. Liebling
(10/18/1904
12/28/1963)
US writer
(was married to Jean Stafford)
"I got to be one of the guys so much, I used to have the girls waiting for me..."
Anita O'Day
(10/18/1919
11/23/2006)
US singer
, on dressing like the rest of the band onstage
(same dates as Klaus Kinski)
"It's not the end of the world, but you can see it from there."
Pierre Trudeau
(10/18/1919
09/28/2000)
Canadian Prime Minister (15)
, on Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
(was married to Margaret;
father, with her, of Justin Trudeau)
"I was with some Vietnamese recently, and some of them were smoking two cigarettes at the same time. That's the kind of customers we need!"
Jesse Helms
(10/18/1921
07/04/2008)
US senator (NC)
, at a dinner to promote the state's tobacco industry (Jesse's the older boy on the left)
"Results! Why man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work."
Thomas Alva Edison
(02/11/1847
10/18/1931)
US scientist/inventor
"We have a strange and wonderful relationshiphe's strange and I'm wonderful."
Mike Ditka
(10/18/1939
)
US football coach
, on QB Jim McMahon
"Creation is everything you do. Make something."
Ntozake Shange
(10/18/1948
10/27/2018)
US writer
"Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, respect me, I'm a respectable grown-up, and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death."
Wendy Wasserstein
(10/18/1950
01/30/2006)
US playwright
("The Heidi Chronicles")
"It's sad to think that we've gotten to this that we actually have to think about how to go about finding a man. But what's even sadder is that some men make you feel guilty for looking."
Terry McMillan
(10/18/1951
)
US writer
"The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else."
Martina Navratilova
(10/18/1956
)
Czech tennis player
"I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel."
Elizabeth Arden
(12/31/1881
10/18/1966)
US cosmetician
"We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities."
Walt Kelly
(08/25/1913
10/18/1973)
US cartoonist
"How sad would be November if we had no knowledge of the spring."
Edwin Way Teale
(06/02/1899
10/18/1980)
US writer, naturalist
"I like the character of Charity because she's so hopeful. She's never bitter, and plenty of things happen to her that could make her bitter. She always thinks tomorrow's going to be beautiful. And someday it will be."
Gwen Verdon
(01/13/1925 10/18/2000)
US actor, dancer
(was married to Bob Fosse)
"Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would have people standing in the corners of our rooms."
Alan Coren
(06/27/1938
10/18/2007)
English writer
"There are two types of coaches. Them that have just been fired and them that are going to be fired."
Bum Phillips
(09/29/1923
10/18/2013)
US football coach
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