April 07

"Strongest minds
Are often those of whom the noisy world
Hears least."

William Wordsworth
(04/07/1770 – 04/23/1850)
English writer

"In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question."

William Godwin
(03/03/1756 – 04/07/1836)
English writer

"How can you eat anything with eyes?"

Will Kellogg
(04/07/1860 – 10/06/1951)
US cereal giant

"I have never met anyone who wasn't against war. Even Hitler and Mussolini were, according to themselves."

Sir David Low
(04/07/1891 – 09/19/1963)
English cartoonist

"How were the receipts today at Madison Square Garden?"

P. T. Barnum
(07/05/1810 – 04/07/1891)
US entrepreneur, showman , last words

"Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values."

Gerald Brenan
(04/07/1894 – 01/19/1987)
English writer

"He (Alexander Woollcott) always praises the first production of each season, being reluctant to stone the first cast."

Walter Winchell
(04/07/1897 – 02/20/1972)
US journalist

"Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain."

Billie Holiday
(04/07/1915 – 07/17/1959)
US singer

"The volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases."

Jerry Brown
(04/07/1938 – )
US mayor (Oakland, CA), Governor (CA), 1976 presidential candidate

"My movie is not about Vietnam. My movie is Vietnam."

Francis Ford Coppola
(04/07/1939 – )
US film director , on "Apocalypse Now"

"Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home."

Sir David Frost
(04/07/1939 – )
English TV personality

"Irony is the hygiene of the mind."

Princess Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco
(02/26/1897 – 04/07/1945)
English writer (daughter of Margot and Herbert Henry Asquith) painting by Augustus John

"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it."

Henry Ford
(07/30/1863 – 04/07/1947)
US inventor, industrialist

"The worst thing that happened to me was when platforms went out of style."

John Oates
(04/07/1949 – )
US singer (Hall and Oates)

"Many years ago, ... many, MANY years ago... I brought up a boy, and I said to him, 'Son, if you ever become a writer, try to write a good part for your old man sometime.' Well, by cracky, that's what he did!"

Walter Huston
(04/06/1884 – 04/07/1950)
Canadian actor (father of John, grandfather of Anjelica; died near his birthday)

"My skull, my eyes, my nose three times, my jaw, my shoulder, my chest, two fingers, a knee, everything from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet."

Jackie Chan
(04/07/1954 – )
Chinese actor, acrobat, martial artist , catalog of broken bones

"I'm destined to be attracted to those I cannot defeat."

Russell Crowe
(04/07/1964 – )
NZ-born actor

"Never for a second did I think of myself as the sexiest guy in the world. When I was a kid, I thought I was the strongest man in the world. Then, the fastest runner and then the smartest person in the world. One by one my delusions got shut down. Now I just see myself as the lamest guy in the world."

Jack Black
(04/07/1969 – )
US actor, singer (Tenacious D)