Yesterday Tomorrow
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"Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment."
Dogen
(01/19/1200 – 09/22/1253)
Japanese religious leader
"Music hath charm to soothe a savage breast,
To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak."
William Congreve
(01/24/1670 – 01/19/1729)
English writer
"Whiskey—I like it, I always did, and that is the reason I never use it."
Robert E. Lee
(01/19/1807 – 10/12/1870)
US general
"I have great faith in fools—self-confidence, my friends call it."
Edgar Allan Poe
(01/19/1809 – 10/07/1849)
US writer
"The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution."
Paul Cezanne
(01/19/1839 – 10/22/1906)
French painter
"Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one."
Augustine Birrell
(01/19/1850 – 11/20/1933)
English politician, scholar
"To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have."
Ken S. Keyes, Jr.
(01/19/1921 – 12/20/1995)
US writer
"Film-making has become a kind of hysterical pregnancy."
Richard Lester
(01/19/1932 – )
US director
"Fourteen heart attacks, and the son of a bitch has to croak in my week. In MY WEEK."
Janis Joplin
(01/19/1943 – 10/04/1970)
US singer
, on Eisenhower's death pre-empting her appearance on Newsweek's cover
"I'm funny about who I sweat with."
Dolly Parton
(01/19/1946 – )
US singer-songwriter
, on why she doesn't work out with Jane Fonda
"Do not imagine that art is something which is designed to give gentle uplift and self-confidence. Art is not a brassiere. At least, not in the English sense. But do not forget that brassiere is the French for life-jacket."
Julian Barnes
(01/19/1946 – )
English writer
"Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography."
Paul Rodriguez
(01/19/1955 – )
Hispanic-US comic
"Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself."
Gerald Brenan
(04/07/1894 – 01/19/1987)
English writer
"The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new."
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
(12/11/1931 – 01/19/1990)
Indian spiritual leader
"Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting."
John Russell
(01/03/1921 – 01/19/1991)
US actor
"I've been real lucky about writing people songs, but a lot of times if I picked a song, the guy didn't want the song for himself. You had to use backwards psychology—I'd say this is a song for Muddy Waters if I wanted Howlin Wolf to do it because they seemed to have a little thing going on between them."
Willie Dixon
(07/01/1915 – 01/19/1992)
US singer
"And I to my motorcycle
Parked like the soul of the junkyard
Restored, a bicycle fleshed
With power, and tore off
Up Highway 106 continually
Drunk on the wind in my mouth
Wringing the handlebar for speed
Wild to be wreckage forever."
James Dickey
(02/02/1923 – 01/19/1997)
US writer
"If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude; I hope to make you use your imagination."
Hedy Lamarr
(11/09/1913 – 01/19/2000)
Austrian actor, inventor
"When Warren Beatty called a girl up, it was usually to try to get her into the sack. but he called me to find out what kind of bologna I used. I just don't have what it takes, I guess. Raquel Welch has what it takes. She's so sexy and gorgeous, even I want to jump on her!"
Suzanne Pleshette
(01/31/1937 – 01/19/2008)
US actor
Yesterday Tomorrow
"The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution."
Paul Cezanne
"There is absolutely nothing wrong with Oscar Levant that a miracle can't fix."
Alexander Woollcott
"Alfred Hitchcock thought of himself as looking like Cary Grant. That's tough, to think of yourself one way and look another."
Tippi Hedren
"Fourteen heart attacks, and the son of a bitch has to croak in my week. In MY WEEK."
Janis Joplin
"If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude; I hope to make you use your imagination."
Hedy Lamarr