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"I feel very old sometimes... I carry on and would not like to die before having emptied a few more buckets of sh*t on the heads of my fellow men."
Gustave Flaubert
(12/12/1821
05/08/1880)
French writer
"The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't get out and those outside don't want to get in."
Arthur Brisbane
(12/12/1864
12/25/1936)
US editor, writer
"I have not collected art. Art collected me. I never found paintings. They found me. I have never even owned a work of art. They owned me."
Edward G. Robinson
(12/12/1893
01/26/1973)
Romanian actor
"Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college."
Lillian Smith
(12/12/1897
09/28/1966)
US writer
"I get tired of hearing my ballplayers bellyache all the time. They should sit in the press box sometime and watch themselves play."
Buzzie Bavasi
(12/12/1914
05/01/2008)
US baseball manager
"People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness."
John Wanamaker
(07/11/1838
12/12/1922)
US merchant
"Life is indeed precious, and I believe the death penalty helps to affirm this fact."
Edward Koch
(12/12/1924
02/01/2013)
US mayor (NYC), People's Court judge
"Asking a working writer what he feels about critics is like asking a lamppost what he feels about dogs."
John Osborne
(12/12/1929
12/24/1994)
Welsh writer
(was married to Jill Bennett and died on her birthday,
was also married to Penelope Gilliatt)
"I didn't know anything about speed or diet pills, but they gave me these little red pills, like Benzadrine, that you can only buy in Mexico now."
Connie Francis
(12/12/1937
)
US singer
"I'm not trying to sell sex. I just don't like wearing a lot of clothes onstage."
Sheila E
(12/12/1957
)
US entertainer
"After all the nice things I've said about that hag! When I get hold of her I'll tear out every hair of her moustache!"
Tallulah Bankhead
(01/31/1902
12/12/1968)
US actor
, on Bette Davis
"You don't want to get rid of your experiences, because they're your experiencesgood or badand you need them, but it would be great if they weren't on the video shelf!"
Jennifer Connelly
(12/12/1970
)
US actor
"Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding over man's capacity for evil."
David Sarnoff
(02/27/1891
12/12/1971)
Russian-US inventor
"I don't remember ever having finished a book."
Bridget Hall
(12/12/1977
)
US model
"Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done."
Vance Packard
(05/22/1914
12/12/1996)
US writer
"I have learned the difference between a cactus and a caucus. On a cactus, the pricks are on the outside."
Morris Udall
(06/15/1922
12/12/1998)
US Congressman (AZ), presidential contender
"'Do you ever notice,' asked Luisa, 'how easy it is to forgive a person any number of faults for one endearing characteristic... while someone with many good qualities is insupportable for a single defect if it happens to be a boring one?'"
Shirley Hazzard
(01/30/1931
12/12/2016)
Australian writer
("The Bay of Noon")
"People are lost today, and they always tell me we need another Billy Jack, who stood for moral and spiritual values and psychic truths." *
Tom Laughlin
(08/10/1931
12/12/2013)
US actor
"Look, people have an image of Italians. When I go somewhere in the world, I don't care where it is, when they look at me it's not about my intelligence. It's who can I beat up."
Danny Aiello
(06/20/1933
12/12/2019)
US actor
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