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"To divide a cube into two other cubes, a fourth power or in general any power whatever into two powers of the same denomination above the second is impossible, and I have assuredly found an admirable proof of this, but the margin is too narrow to contain it."
Pierre de Fermat
(circa 10/31/1607
01/12/1665)
French mathematician
, notes in the margin of his copy of Diophantus' Arithmetica
"Mulberry Garden, now the only place of refreshment about the town for persons of the best quality to be exceedingly cheated at."
John Evelyn
(10/31/1620
02/27/1706)
English writer
"The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children."
John Keats
(10/31/1795
02/23/1821)
English writer
"We live in the present, we dream of the future, and we learn eternal truths from the past."
Chiang Kai-Shek
(10/31/1887
04/05/1975)
Chinese statesman
"In reality, it is more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side."
B. H. Liddell Hart
(10/31/1895
01/29/1970)
English military historian
("The Real War, 1914-1918")
"It wouldn't do in my profession to let anything escape you, not even a glass of bitter."
Dan Leno
(12/20/1860
10/31/1904)
English entertainer
"Look, I'm not an intellectualI just take pictures."
Helmut Newton
(10/31/1920
01/23/2004)
German-Australian photographer
"I've been married to one marxist and one fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out."
Lee Grant
(10/31/1925
)
US actor
"It is needless to say that women make the most patient as well as the most dangerous pickpockets."
Harry Houdini
(03/24/1874
10/31/1926)
Hungarian-born US magician
"Americans will put up with anything, provided it doesn't block traffic."
Dan Rather
(10/31/1931
)
US telejournalist
"It would be very discouraging if somewhere down the line you could ask a computer if the Riemann hypothesis is correct and it said, `Yes, it is true, but you won't be able to understand the proof.'"
Ronald Graham
(10/31/1935
07/06/2020)
US mathematician
"Belfast is like an ugly childyou love it the most."
Stephen Rea
(10/31/1946
)
Irish actor
"Deafness has left me acutely aware of both the duplicity that language is capable of and the many expressions the body cannot hide."
Terry Galloway
(10/31/1950
)
US performance artist
"You don't pay an actor to act. An actor will do that for free because we love to act. You pay an actor to wait."
John Candy
(10/31/1950
03/04/1994)
Canadian actor
"Once the Invisible Hand has taken all the historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani brickmaker would consider to be prosperityy'know what? There's only four things we do better than anyone else: music, movies, microcode, and high-speed pizza delivery."
Neal Stephenson
(10/31/1959
)
US writer
"In case it is one of mine." *
Augustus Edwin John
(01/04/1878
10/31/1961)
Welsh artist
, patting the head of a child in Chelsea as he passed by
"What I don't like are pompous, pretentious movies."
Peter Jackson
(10/31/1961
)
New Zealand director
"The real reason I decided on show business was to avoid a day job."
Rob Schneider
(10/31/1963
)
US comic, actor (SNL)
"It's got lots of installation."
Mike Smith
(10/31/1963
)
US baseball pitcher
, on his new coat
"If you live long enough, lots of nice things happen."
George Halas
(02/02/1895
10/31/1983)
US football coach
"My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition."
Indira Gandhi
(11/19/1917
10/31/1984)
Indian politician
(daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru)
"Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real."
Federico Fellini
(01/20/1920
10/31/1993)
Italian filmmaker
"The older you are, the freer you are, as long as you last."
Studs Terkel
(03/16/1912
10/31/2008)
US writer
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