December 15

"No man is born an Artist nor an Angler."

Izaak Walton
(08/09/1593 – 12/15/1683)
English writer ("The Compleat Angler")

"The human face is the organic seat of beauty... It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul."

Eliza Wood Burhans Farnham
(11/17/1815 – 12/15/1864)
US social reformer ("Woman and Her Era")

"There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime."

Maxwell Anderson
(12/15/1888 – 02/28/1959)
US playwright ("Joan of Lorraine") , on George Washington

"Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows."

Sitting Bull
(??/??/1831 – 12/15/1890)
US native chief

"If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars."

J. Paul Getty
(12/15/1892 – 06/06/1976)
US zillionaire

"Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory."

Betty Smith
(12/15/1896 – 01/17/1972)
US writer ("A Tree Grows in Brooklyn")

"By and by
God caught his eye."

David McCord
(12/15/1897 – 04/13/1997)
US writer ("Odds Without Ends") , epitaph for a waiter

"The universe is made of stories, not atoms."

Muriel Rukeyser
(12/15/1913 – 02/12/1980)
US writer ("Book of the Dead")

"It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment."

Freeman Dyson
(12/15/1923 – 02/28/2020)
English physicist ("The Sun, the Genome, and the Internet")

"The vote, I thought, means nothing to women. We should be armed."

Edna O'Brien
(12/15/1930 – )
Irish writer ("Saints and Sinners")

"I have a lot of awards in my house that I have absolutely no idea what they're for."

Tim Conway
(12/15/1933 – 05/14/2019)
US comic, actor ("The Dentist")

"One never knows, do one?"

Fats Waller
(05/21/1904 – 12/15/1943)
US pianist, singer ("Ain't Misbehavin'")

"I can do whatever I want—I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you."

Don Johnson
(12/15/1949 – )
US actor ("Miami Vice")
(was married to Melanie Griffith, father with her of Dakota Johnson)

"People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization."

Agnes Repplier
(04/01/1855 – 12/15/1950)
US writer ("Points of Friction")

"Spielberg isn't a filmmaker, he's a confectioner."

Alex Cox
(12/15/1954 – )
English actor, director, writer ("Repo Man")

"The best that most of us can hope to achieve in physics is simply to misunderstand at a deeper level."

Wolfgang Pauli
(04/25/1900 – 12/15/1958)
US physicist

"They can't censor the gleam in my eye."

Charles Laughton
(07/01/1899 – 12/15/1962)
US actor ("Mutiny on the Bounty")
(was married to Elsa Lanchester)

"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."

Walt Disney
(12/05/1901 – 12/15/1966)
US filmmaker ("Steamboat Willie")

"The poor taxpayer may wipe his shoes on a $3 doormat when he goes home, but not the Navy. It is, damn the cost, full feet ahead on a doormat you would be ashamed to get muddy."

William Proxmire
(11/11/1915 – 12/15/2005)
US Senator (WI) , on excessive military spending on ordinary items—the doormat in question cost $792

"When I get inside the book I lose all my bearings."

Diane Middlebrook
(04/16/1939 – 12/15/2007)
US writer ("Her Husband: Ted Hughes & Sylvia Plath, a Marriage")

"God is a good God, and the Devil is a bad Devil."

Oral Roberts
(01/24/1918 – 12/15/2009)
US televangelist

"He couldn't hit a curve ball with an ironing board."

Bob Feller
(11/03/1918 – 12/15/2010)
US baseball pitcher , on Michael Jordan's bid to play baseball for White Sox

"Actually, working with Julie on a film is a whole lot easier than working with many people that I'm not married to!"

Blake Edwards
(07/26/1922 – 12/15/2010)
US screenwriter, director ("Breakfast at Tiffany's")
(was married to Julie Andrews)

"I hope I'll die on stage at the age at 105, playing Peter Pan."

Joan Fontaine
(10/22/1917 – 12/15/2013)
Japan-born US actor ("Rebecca")
(sister of Olivia de Havilland)