January 15

"Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive."

Jean-Baptiste Moliere
(01/15/1622 – 02/17/1673)
French writer

"The newspapers are the cemeteries of ideas."

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
(01/15/1809 – 01/19/1865)
French writer

"Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army."

Edward Everett
(04/11/1794 – 01/15/1865)
US educator

"There's something Vichy about the French."

Ivor Novello
(01/15/1893 – 03/06/1951)
US actor

"Familiarity breeds attempt."

Goodman Ace
(01/15/1899 – 03/25/1982)
US humorist (was married to Jane Ace)

"If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning."

Aristotle Onassis
(01/15/1906 – 03/15/1975)
Greek zillionaire (was married to Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, father of Christina Onassis)

"Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible."

Edward Teller
(01/15/1908 – 09/09/2003)
US scientist

"Carrying those double tanks around all the time got to be a little rough on me. I had to put that damn wetsuit on and take it off, sometimes three or four times a day."

Lloyd Bridges
(01/15/1913 – 03/10/1998)
US actor (father of Beau and Jeff Bridges) , on his role in the "Sea Hunt" TV series

"Life cannot be captured in a few axioms. And that is just what I keep trying to do. But it won't work, for life is full of endless nuances and cannot be captured in just a few formulae."

Etty Hillesum
(01/15/1914 – 11/30/1943)
Dutch lawyer, writer (died at Auschwitz)

"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

Martin Luther King, Jr.
(01/15/1929 – 04/04/1968)
US religious leader, civil rights activist

"Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything."

Ernest J. Gaines
(01/15/1933 – )
US writer

"When I cry, do you want the tears to run all the way or shall I stop halfway down?"

Margaret O'Brien
(01/15/1937 – )
precocious US actor , at age 6

"We wanted to be the biggest cult heroes in the world, to be millionaires, to be brilliant, and to be total bastards."

Julian Cope
(01/15/1941 – )
Welsh singer (Teardrop Explodes)

"I don't know anything about music. I don't think I do music. I think I do spells."

Captain Beefheart
(01/15/1941 – )
US musician

"That incident ruined my reputation for 10 years. Get one Beatle drunk and look what happens!"

Harry Nilsson
(06/15/1941 – 01/15/1994)
US singer, songwriter , on his participation in John Lennon's "Lost Weekend"

"The time of the rack and the screws is come. Summer television has set in with its usual severity. And the small screen, where late the sweet birds sang, is now awash with repeats, reruns, rejects, replacements and reversions to the primitive."

Harriet van Horne
(05/17/1920 – 01/15/1998)
US writer

"The people who work in publishing are crazier than the people who work in Hollywood."

Olivia Goldsmith
(??/??/1949 – 01/15/2004)
US writer

"I understand her. I may not be all Phoebe, but she is all me."

Ruth Warrick
(06/29/1915 – 01/15/2005)
US actor , on her character Phoebe Tyler Wallingford on "All My Children"

"As long as mixed grills and combination salads are popular, anthologies will undoubtedly continue in favor."

Elizabeth Janeway
(10/07/1913 – 01/15/2005)
US writer

"The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind."

Hortense Calisher
(12/20/1911 – 01/15/2009)
US writer