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"The press is a mill that grinds all that is put into its hopper. Fill the hopper with poisoned grain and it will grind it to meal, but there is death in the bread."
William Cullen Bryant
(11/03/1794
06/12/1878)
US writer
"The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat."
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
(11/03/1879
08/26/1962)
Canadian explorer
"Be carefulwith quotations you can damn anything."
Andre Malraux
(11/03/1901
11/23/1976)
French writer
"A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top."
James Reston
(11/03/1909
12/06/1995)
Scottish journalist
"You won't find a single four-letter word in there. I don't go for that bullsh*t."
Bob Feller
(11/03/1918
12/15/2010)
US baseball pitcher
, on his autobiography
"Maybe I'm too masculine. Casting directors cast in their own, or an idealized image. Maybe I don't look like anybody's ideal."
Charles Bronson
(11/03/1921
08/30/2003)
US actor
"Maggie Smith used to have excellent skin. Have you seen her face lately? In a few more years, they'll have to unfold it to find out who she used to be."
Jeremy Brett
(11/03/1933
09/12/1995)
English actor
"Maybe it's the hair. Maybe it's the teeth. Maybe it's the intellect. No, it's the hair."
Tom Shales
(11/03/1944
)
US critic
, on Farrah Fawcett
"For me, it's more about keeping it simple with a rock and roll edge. It's all about accessorising."
Lulu
(11/03/1948
)
Scottish singer
(was married to Maurice Gibb)
"It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black oncewhen I was poor."
Larry Holmes
(11/03/1949
)
US boxer
"I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on."
Roseanne Barr
(11/03/1952
)
US comic
(was married to Tom Arnold)
"The moment somebody says to me, 'This is very risky,' is the moment it becomes attractive to me."
Kate Capshaw
(11/03/1953
)
US actor
(married to Steven Spielberg)
"With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft."
Henri Matisse
(12/31/1869
11/03/1954)
French artist
"I haven't thought about it. I'm not capable of deep thinking."
Phil Simms
(11/03/1955
)
US football quarterback
, on being moved from starting QB to reserve
"Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness."
Wilhelm Reich
(03/24/1897
11/03/1957)
Austrian psychologist
"We live in a time when nearly everything can be summed up in ones and zeroes, right? And that causes a certain amount of despair."
Dolph Lundgren
(11/03/1957
)
Swedish actor, former chemical engineer
"This is a youth-oriented society, and the joke is on them because youth is a disease from which we all recover."
Dorothy Fuldheim
(06/26/1893
11/03/1989)
US journalist
"Tim has a great vision. Unfortunately he gets so involved with the characterization of the villains, and the scenic backgrounds, that at times he forgets about the story line."
Bob Kane
(10/24/1915
11/03/1998)
US cartoonist
, on Tim Burton
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