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"I never truckled; I never took off the hat to Fashion and held it out for pennies. By God, I told them the truth."
Frank Norris
(03/05/1870 10/25/1902)
US writer
"Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege."
William Henry Beveridge
(03/05/1879 03/16/1963)
India-born English economist
"I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior."
Hippolyte Taine
(04/21/1828 03/05/1893)
French historian
"Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it."
Rex Harrison
(03/05/1908 06/02/1990)
English actor
"Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union."
Josef Stalin
(01/02/1880 03/05/1953)
Russian leader
"Zolten is a common Hungarian name, it's my wife's maiden name and most importantly, it's the name of Dracula's dog."
Penn Jillette
(03/05/1955 )
US comic, magician
(also see Teller)
, on his son's name
"Trouble'n'honey."
Patsy Cline
(09/08/1932 03/05/1963)
US singer
, on what someone who'd never seen her would think she looked like
"It's fun to be a woman. It's fun to flirt and wear makeup and have boobs."
Eva Mendes
(03/05/1974 )
US actor
"This we learn from Watergate
that almost any creep'll
be glad to help the Government
overthrow the people."
E. Y. Harburg
(04/08/1896 03/05/1981)
US songwriter
"Some comedians love their characters. I don't fall in love with mine. In fact, I get tired of them very fast. You have to be willing to throw it all away."
John Belushi
(01/24/1949 03/05/1982)
US comic actor
(SNL)
"I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like a child stringing beads in kindergartenhappy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another."
Brenda Ueland
(10/24/1891 03/05/1985)
US writer
"But what if it doesn't work ... ?
and they jammed sticks
In the wheels of the first locomotive
To make sure it wouldn't work."
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
(07/18/1933 03/05/1992)
Russian poet
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