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"Kissed mouth don’t lose its fortune, on the contrary it renews itself just as the moon does."
Giovanni Boccaccio
(06/16/1313
12/21/1375)
Italian writer
"The birds are moulting. If only man could moult alsohis mind once a year its errors, his heart once a year its useless passions."
James Lane Allen
(12/21/1849
02/18/1925)
US writer
("The Choir Invisible")
"The English may batter us to pieces, but they will never succeed in breaking our spirit."
Maud Gonne
(12/21/1866
04/27/1953)
Irish actor, patriot, feminist
(muse of William Butler Yeats)
"I never wanted to be a millionaire, I just wanted to live like one."
Walter Hagen
(12/21/1892
10/06/1969)
US golfer
"I walked out in the night a while ago. The stars are bright, the night is silent, the country quietas quiet as peace itself. Millions of men are in camp and on warships. Will they all have to fight and many of them die, to untangle this network of treaties and alliances and to blow off huge debts with gunpowder so that the world may start again?"
Walter H. Page
(08/15/1855
12/21/1918)
US journalist
, on WWI
"Publicity is like poison; it doesn't hurt unless you swallow it."
Joe Paterno
(12/21/1926
01/22/2012)
US football coach
"I think pop music has done more for oral intercourse than anything else that ever happened, and vice versa."
Frank Zappa
(12/21/1940
12/04/1993)
US musician, composer
(was married to Gail)
"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."
General George S. Patton
(11/11/1885
12/21/1945)
US military
"People mistake me for Laurence Fishburne all the time. And he always gets mistaken for me. (And why not? We've both starred in Spike Lee movies, haven't we?) Even when we're standing together, people have called him by my name and me by his. A woman recently ran up to him and said, 'My daughter loved you in Pulp Fiction! Could she have your autograph?' So he signed it, 'Respectfully yours, Samuel Jackson."
Samuel L. Jackson
(12/21/1948
)
US actor
"There is one word in America that says it all, and that one word is 'you never know.'"
Joaquin Andujar
(12/21/1952
09/08/2015)
Dominican baseball player
"It's high time the press finally got one thing right about me."
Chris Evert
(12/21/1954
)
US tennis player
, on the Daily Mirror proclaiming she "has the best boobs in the business"
(was engaged to Jimmy Connors)
"Student teaching is the hardest job there is. Secondary school kids didn't want to be there. I skipped out one afternoon and went to the mall, and there were some of my students there. But they couldn't report me, could they?"
Jane Kaczmarek
(12/21/1955
)
US actor
"It's a strange way to make a living, and my dentist has made me cut down on eating light bulbs, but I'm never bored."
Jim Rose
(12/21/1956
)
US performance artist
"I feel like this is a dreamand I apologize for how I dressed some of you."
Ray Romano
(12/21/1957
)
US actor
, accepting a Golden Globe award
"A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up."
Florence Griffith-Joyner
(12/21/1959
09/21/1998)
US runner
"I have an Alka Seltzer bat. You know, plop plop fizz fizz. When the pitcher sees me walking up there they say, 'Oh what a relief it is.'"
Andy Van Slyke
(12/21/1960
)
US baseball player
"Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions."
Eric Temple Bell
(02/07/1883
12/21/1960)
Scottish-US mathematician, writer
("The Time Stream" as John Taine)
"You can't judge a band by their covers."
Teresa A. Schweitzer
(12/21/1963
)
US artist, writer, citizen scientist, permaculturist, web producer, Peace Corps volunteer, bird nerd extraordinaire
(friend of the quotekeeper)
"I don't like my body, it's oddly-proportioned. I'd like to be, like, dumpy."
Andy Dick
(12/21/1965
)
US actor
"There are very few jobs which require a penis or a vagina."
Florynce Kennedy
(02/11/1916
12/21/2000)
US lawyer, activist
"He just can't believe what isn't happening to him."
David Coleman
(04/26/1926
12/21/2013)
English TV presenter
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