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"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there."
Jalal ud-Din Rumi
(09/30/1207
12/17/1273)
Ghurid (now Afghanistan) region mystic and poet
"The finest collection of frames I ever saw."
Sir Humphry Davy
(12/17/1778
05/29/1829)
English chemist (discovered laughing gas, bless him)
, on the museums of France
"Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive."
Thomas C. Haliburton
(12/17/1796
08/27/1865)
Canadian writer
"Ladies, just a little more virginity, if you don't mind."
Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree
(12/17/1852
07/02/1917)
English actor, writer
, to actresses brought to play ladies-in-waiting
"I may really say that for a quarter of a century I have kept before me one unflinching aimto register my own times in terms of my own time, and still more to urge those who are better poets and better prose-writers than myself to have the same aim."
Ford Madox Ford
(12/17/1873
06/26/1939)
English writer
"In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting."
Lord Kelvin
(06/26/1824
12/17/1907)
Irish scientist
"My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety."
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
(06/09/1836
12/17/1917)
English physician, mayor
, on becoming a physician
"It's not hard to tell we was poorwhen you saw the toilet paper dryin' on the clothesline."
George Lindsey
(12/17/1928
05/06/2012)
US comic, actor
"Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care."
William Safire
(12/17/1929
09/27/2009)
US writer, grammarian
"I hate advice unless I'm giving it."
Bob Guccione
(12/17/1930
10/20/2010)
US magazine editor (Penthouse)
"As I grow older and older
and totter towards the tomb
I find that I care less and less
who goes to bed with whom."
Dorothy L. Sayers
(06/13/1893
12/17/1957)
English writer
"If it's a man's world, then I'm glad I'm a girl."
Penelope Houston
(12/17/1958
)
US singer, songwriter
Jay Leno: "How did you like the birds?"
Milla Jovovich: "Very nice, I felt like wringing their necks."
(12/17/1975
)
Russian model, actor
(was married to Luc Besson)
"Leaving behind books is even more beautifulthere are far too many children."
Marguerite Yourcenar
(06/08/1903
12/17/1987)
Belgian-US writer
"The last time I saw anything like this I was playing for Tastee Freeze in the Little League." *
Dave Smith
(01/21/1955
12/17/2008)
US pitcher (Astros)
, on being behind by 14 runs in the first inning
"The way I keep in touch with the world is very gingerly, because the world touches too hard."
Captain Beefheart
(01/15/1941
12/17/2010)
US musician
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