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"If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down, these women together ought to be able to turn it right side up again."
Sojourner Truth
(11/18/1797
11/26/1883)
US abolitionist
"A little kindness from person to person is better than a vast love for all humankind."
Richard Dehmel
(11/18/1863
02/08/1920)
German writer
"You can't sweep people off their feet if you can't be swept off your own."
Clarence Day
(11/18/1874
12/28/1935)
US writer
"I am one of those unfortunates to whom death is less hideous than explanations."
Wyndham Lewis
(11/18/1882
03/07/1957)
English artist
"I don't think we had better go into the minute secrets of the campaign, so far as I know them, because I see the reporters are present, who are taking it all down."
Chester Alan Arthur
(10/05/1829
11/18/1886)
US President (21),
VP (20)
"I believe in Success,
And in Comfort no less
I believe all the rest is but patter."
William Allingham
(03/19/1824
11/18/1889)
Irish writer
"I could eat alphabet soup and sh*t better lyrics."
Johnny Mercer
(11/18/1909
06/25/1976)
US songwriter
, on an unknown musical
"If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time."
Marcel Proust
(07/10/1871
11/18/1922)
French writer
"If you're looking for youth, you're looking for longevity, just take a dose of rock 'n' roll. It keeps you going. Just like the caffeine in your coffee. Rock 'n' roll is good for the soul, for the well being, for the psyche, for your everything. I love it. I can't even picture being without rock 'n' roll."
Hank Ballard
(11/18/1927
03/02/2003)
US singer, songwriter, Twister
"When I play I think of how the phrases move as a dance, or something in nature like a bird or a shooting star."
Don Cherry
(11/18/1936
10/19/1995)
US trumpeter
"I played with dolls until I was 15. My mother encouraged it because my older sister got married when she was 15, so Mom thought that the longer I stayed with dolls, the better."
Linda Evans
(11/18/1942
)
US actor
(was married to John Derek)
"We're all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around, enjoying consciousness every now and then for a second or so before splitting up to become bits and pieces of trees and stars and french fries."
Alan Dean Foster
(11/18/1946
)
US writer
"Love thy neighbor as thyself, but choose your neighborhood." *
Louise Lester Beal
(08/08/1867
11/18/1952)
US actor
"The curve of your eyes goes around my heart,
A round of dance and sweetness,
Halo of time, nocturnal and safe cradle,
And if I don't know any more all that I've lived through
It's because I haven't always been seen by you."
Paul Éluard
(12/14/1895
11/18/1952)
French writer, surrealist
"I don't think I would ever consider autoerotic asphyxiation unless maybe someone broke into my house and was strangling me anyway."
Kevin Nealon
(11/18/1953
)
US comic actor (SNL)
"I would kill the clone. That would be my first response."
Elizabeth Perkins
(11/18/1960
)
US actor
, on how she'd react if she encountered an unexpected identical twin
"My life is so full of surprises, nothing surprises me any more."
Kim Wilde
(11/18/1960
)
English singer
"We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough."
Niels Bohr
(10/07/1885
11/18/1962)
Danish mathematician
(same dates as Henry Agard Wallace)
"The fact is, though nobody has perceived it, that a professional play-critic is a monstrositya sow with five legs or a man with four thumbs. Nature did not intend him, and that is why we have to conceal our repulsion when he confronts us."
Clifford Bax
(07/13/1886
11/18/1962)
English writer
"I've always made films that are sort of avant-garde-y or whatever you call it."
Chloë Sevigny
(11/18/1974
)
US model, actor
(LTR with Vincent Gallo)
"A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him."
Man Ray
(08/27/1890
11/18/1976)
US artist, photographer
"Perhaps I just didn't know how to compose 'dark' music. Lenny Bernstein always said my music sounded postcoital."
Paul Bowles
(12/30/1910
11/18/1999)
US writer, composer, and traveler
"With the kind of pictures they're making today, I'll stick with toilet paper."
Dick Wilson
(07/30/1916
11/18/2007)
US actor
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