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"We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming."
Novalis
(05/02/1772 03/25/1801)
German writer
"Assassins!"
Arturo Toscanini
(03/25/1867 01/16/1957)
Russian violinist, conductor, composer
, to his orchestra
"History gets thicker as it approaches recent times."
A. J. P. Taylor
(03/25/1906 09/07/1990)
English historian
"The colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams."
Claude deBussy
(08/22/1862 03/25/1918)
French composer
"Everywhere I go I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher."
Flannery O'Connor
(03/25/1925 08/03/1964)
US writer
"It would be unfair to suggest that one of the most characteristic sounds of the English Sunday is the sound of Harold Hobson barking up the wrong tree."
Penelope Gilliatt
(03/25/1932 05/09/1993)
English writer
"Perhaps men should think twice before making widowhood our only path to power."
Gloria Steinem
(03/25/1934 )
US feminist, writer
"We have not been scuffling in this waste-howling wildness for the right to be stupid."
Toni Cade Bambara
(03/25/1939 12/09/1995)
US writer
"If gays are granted rights, next we'll have to give rights to prostitutes and to people who sleep with St. Bernards and to nailbiters."
Anita Bryant
(03/25/1940 )
US pageant contestant, ex-orange juice spokesperson, and general all-around moron
"I'm a big woman. I need big hair."
Aretha Franklin
(03/25/1942 )
US Queen of Soul
"Sure, the body count in this movie bothers me, but what are you gonna do? It's what everybody likes. At least it's not an awful body count it's a fun body count."
Bonnie Bedelia
(03/25/1946 )
US actor
, on the movie "Die Harder"
"There is nothing wrong with going to bed with someone of your own sex... People should be very free with sex, they should draw the line at goats."
Elton John
(03/25/1947 )
English singer/pianist
"If someone told me they were a 'lesbian sex guru,' I would tell them to get a life."
Susie Bright
(03/25/1958 )
US lesbian sex guru
"I loved making 'Rising Sun.' I got into the psychology of why she liked to get strangled and tied up in plastic bags. It has to do with low self-worth."
Tatjana Patitz
(03/25/1966 )
German supermodel
"I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while."
Max Eastman
(01/04/1883 03/25/1969)
US writer
"Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula."
Roland Barthes
(11/12/1915 03/25/1980)
French critic
"I'd like to be remembered as a guy that came along and did his music, did his best and showed up on time, clean and ready to do the job, wrote a few songs and had a hell of a time."
Buck Owens
(08/12/1929 03/25/2006)
US musician
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