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"A man said to the universe: 'Sir, I exist!' 'However,' replied the universe, 'That fact has not created in me a sense of obligation.'"
Stephen Crane
(11/01/1871
06/05/1900)
US writer
"It has been said that writing comes more easily if you have something to say."
Sholem Asch
(11/01/1880
07/10/1957)
Polish-Yiddish writer
"All wars are planned by old men, in council rooms apart."
Grantland Rice
(11/01/1880
07/13/1954)
US writer
"The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason."
Hermann Broch
(11/01/1886
05/30/1951)
German writer
"We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings."
Alfred Jarry
(09/08/1873
11/01/1907)
French "pataphysical" writer
"The harder you work, the luckier you get."
Gary Player
(11/01/1935
)
US golfer
"Sometimes the best songs almost write themselves."
Bill Anderson
(11/01/1937
)
US singer, songwriter
"I even went so far as to become a Southern Baptist for a while, until I realized that they didn't hold 'em under long enough."
Kinky Friedman
(11/01/1944
)
US singer, songwriter
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complainand most fools do."
Dale Carnegie
(11/24/1888
11/01/1955)
US writer
"He who levitates is loft."
Steven Miller
(11/01/1957
)
US self, artist, writer, editor, musician, photographer, and owner/builder of this site
"Never eat Mexican food east of Mississippi or north of Dallas."
Lyle Lovett
(11/01/1957
)
US singer songwriter
(was married to Julia Roberts)
"You can converge a toaster and refrigerator, but these things are probably not going to be pleasing to the user."
Tim Cook
(11/01/1960
)
US executive
"I write so the endangered thoughts roaming naked and vulnerable through the misty jungles of my mind aren't slain by the guns of practical living."
Kim Krizan
(11/01/1961
)
US writer, actor
"I inherited my father's insatiable desire to meet all the beautiful girls in the world."
Anthony Kiedis
(11/01/1962
)
US singer (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
"Serve the dinner backward, do anything but for goodness' sake, do something weird."
Elsa Maxwell
(05/24/1883
11/01/1963)
US writer, hostess
"Sometimes life hits you on the head with a saucepan. But I'm not here to talk about saucepans."
Toni Collette
(11/01/1972
)
Australian actor
"I don't have to jump up and smile just because TV wants me to."
Walter Payton
(07/25/1954
11/01/1999)
US football player
"I believe that the supreme duty of the historian is to write history, that is to say, to attempt to record in one sweeping sequence the greater events and movements that have swayed the destiny of man."
Sir Steven Runciman
(07/07/1903
11/01/2000)
English historian
"The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis."
William Styron
(06/11/1925
11/01/2006)
US writer
"After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood."
Fred Thompson
(08/19/1942
11/01/2015)
US actor, Senator (TN)
"When they drowned that place, they drowned my whole guts. And I will never forgive the bastards. May they rot in hell."
Katie Lee
(10/23/1919
11/01/2017)
US singer, environmentalist
, on the men who dammed the Glen Canyon
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