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"I saw him even now going the way of all flesh, that is to say towards the kitchen."
John Webster
(12/18/1580 ??/??/1632)
English writer
"There is a star above us which unites souls of the first order, though worlds and ages separate them."
Queen Christina
(12/08/1626
04/19/1689)
Swedish royalty
"A pin has as much head as some authors and a good deal more point."
George D. Prentice
(12/18/1802
01/22/1870)
US writer
("Prenticeana, or Wit and Humor in Paragraphs")
"Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant; there is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks."
Johann Gottfried von Herder
(08/25/1744
12/18/1803)
German philosopher
"It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find next morning that it was someone else."
Samuel Rogers
(07/30/1763
12/18/1855)
English writer
"I always say beauty is only sin deep."
Saki
(12/18/1870
11/14/1916)
Scottish writer
"A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller."
Paul Klee
(12/18/1879
06/29/1940)
Swiss artist
"When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch."
Ty Cobb
(12/18/1886
07/17/1961)
US baseball player
"If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration."
Robert Moses
(12/18/1888
07/29/1981)
US administrator (NYC)
"Manifold subsequent experience has led to a truer appreciation and a more moderate estimate of the importance of the dependence of one living being upon another. "
Richard Owen
(07/20/1804
12/18/1892)
English zoologist
"What, after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean."
Christopher Fry
(12/18/1907
06/30/2005)
English writer
"And the bartender says to Rene Descartes, 'Another beer?' And Descartes says, 'I think not,' and disappears."
Alfred Bester
(12/18/1913
09/30/1987)
US writer
"There are two reasons why I am successful in show business and I am standing on both of them."
Betty Grable
(12/18/1916
07/02/1973)
US actor
"Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more."
Ossie Davis
(12/18/1917
02/04/2005)
US actor, playwright, activist
(was married to Ruby Dee)
"Except that right-side-up is best, there is not much to learn about holding a baby."
Heywood C. Broun
(12/07/1888
12/18/1939)
US writer
"It doesn't matter how many times I've played 'Brown Sugar', I never get tired of playing it."
Bobby Keys
(12/18/1943
12/02/2014)
US saxophonist)
"It would be nice to do a movie where I didn't have to choke the girl to get her."
Ray Liotta
(12/18/1954
)
US actor
"Some people think they are concentrating when they're merely worrying."
Bobby Tyre Jones
(03/17/1902
12/18/1971)
US golfer
"Write out of love, write out of instinct, write out of reason. But always for money."
Louis Untermeyer
(10/01/1885
12/18/1977)
US writer
"It's kind of fun being the cute, little one. In fact, I'm finding it hard to grow out of that."
Katie Holmes
(12/18/1978
)
US actor
(was married to Tom Cruise)
"It's funny how society places such strict standards upon young blonde females. We're supposed to play the clean-cut view the public wants of us. But I am not your little cookie-cutter virgin."
Christina Aguilera
(12/18/1980
)
US singer
"Basically, I only play one character; I just play him at different volumes."
Chris Farley
(02/15/1964
12/18/1997)
US comic, actor (SNL)
"Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not."
Vaclav Havel
(10/05/1936
12/18/2011)
Czech President
"I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man, I keep his house."
Zsa Zsa Gabor
(02/06/1917
12/18/2016)
Hungarian celebrity-because-a-celebrity
(sister of Eva;
was married to Conrad Hilton and eight others)
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