Yesterday Tomorrow
"Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius."
Johann Casper Lavater
(11/15/1741 01/02/1801)
Swiss theologian
"A woman can be a woman and a true one without having all her time engrossed by dress and society."
Martha Carey Thomas
(01/02/1857 12/02/1935)
US educator
"So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere."
Beatrice Webb
(01/02/1858 04/30/1943)
English writer
"If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; but an American cow."
William Lyon Phelps
(01/02/1865 08/21/1943)
US educator, writer
"A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic."
Josef Stalin
(01/02/1880 03/05/1953)
Russian leader
"There is no distance on this earth as far away as yesterday."
Robert Nathan
(01/02/1894 05/25/1985)
US writer
"It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be... This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking."
Isaac Asimov
(01/02/1920 04/06/1992)
Russian-born writer and scientist
"It irks me when people use the character's name in a demeaning way."
Larry "Bozo the Clown" Harmon
(01/02/1925 07/03/2008)
US entertainer
, on people calling politicians "Bozo"
"It's one thing to have talent. It's another to figure out how to use it."
Roger Miller
(01/02/1936 10/25/1992)
US singer-songwriter
"I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked."
David Bailey
(01/02/1938 )
English photographer
(was married to Catherine Deneuve)
"But when you come to Heritage USA, remember to bring your Bible and your VISA cardbecause the Bible is the Holy Truth, and God doesn't take American Express."
Jim Bakker
(01/02/1939 )
US televangelist
(was married to Tammy Faye Bakker)
"Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke."
Lynda Barry
(01/02/1956 )
US writer, cartoonist
"The best thing about switching from being an actor to being a director is that you don't have to shave or hold your stomach in anymore."
Dick Powell
(11/14/1904 01/02/1963)
US actor
(was married to Joan Blondell, June Allyson)
"Fans are people who let an actor know he's not alone in the way he feels about himself."
Jack Carson
(10/27/1910 01/02/1963)
US actor
"I think, 'If my butt's not too big for them to be photographing it, then it shouldn't be too big for me.'"
Christy Turlington
(01/02/1969 )
US supermodel
(married to Edward Burns)
"It isn't the high price of stars that is expensive, it's the high price of mediocrity."
Bill Veeck
(02/09/1914 01/02/1986)
US baseball player, owner
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