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Thomas Otway "Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain."

Thomas Otway
(03/03/1652 – 04/14/1685)
English writer
George Frederick Handel

Dr. Maurice Greene: "Well, Sir, but my anthem—what do you think of it?"
George Frederick Handel: "Oh your antum—ah—why I did tink it vanted air, Dr. Greene."
Greene: "Air, Sir?"
Handel: "Yes, air; and so I did hang it out of de vindow."
(03/14/1681 – 04/14/1759)
German composer
Annie Sullivan "The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments."

Annie Sullivan
(04/14/1866 – 10/20/1936)
US educator (notably of Helen Keller)
"I am willing to taste any drink once."

James Branch Cabell
(04/14/1879 – 05/05/1958)
US writer
Arnold Joseph Toynbee "America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair."

Arnold Joseph Toynbee
(04/14/1889 – 10/22/1975)
English historian
John Gielgud "Poor Ingrid—speaks five languages and can't act in any of them."

Sir John Gielgud
(04/14/1904 – 05/21/2000)
English actor
Rod Steiger "Man is a greater miracle than any god he ever invented."

Rod Steiger
(04/14/1925 – 07/09/2002)
US actor
"Comrade life,
let us
march faster,
March
faster through what's left
of the five-year plan."

Vladimir Mayakovsky
(07/07/1893 – 04/14/1930)
Russian poet
Loretta Lynn "My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em."

Loretta Lynn
(04/14/1935 – )
US singer
Pete Rose "All I want is for my case to be heard before an impractical decision-maker."

Pete Rose
(04/14/1941 – )
US baseball (would-be) Hall of Famer
Julie Christie "Men don't want any responsibility, and neither do I."

Julie Christie
(04/14/1941 – )
India-born English actor
Ritchie Blackmore "I like leaping around onstage, as long as it's done with class."

Ritchie Blackmore
(04/14/1945 – )
English guitarist (Deep Purple, Rainbow)
Ernest Bevin "If you open that Pandora's Box, you never know what Trojan horses will jump out."

Ernest Bevin
(03/09/1881 – 04/14/1951)
English statesman
Richard John Colangelo "I think that's how Chicago got started. A bunch of people in New York said, 'Gee, I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it just isn't cold enough, let's go west.'"

Richard Jeni
(04/14/1957 – 03/10/2007)
US comic
Rachel Carson "Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one."

Rachel Carson
(05/27/1907 – 04/14/1964)
US writer, conservationist (Silent Spring)
Anthony Michael Hall "I don't want to go away as an actor."

Anthony Michael Hall
(04/14/1968 – )
US actor (SNL)
Adrien Brody "I'm running around in front of a green screen screaming, Where's the monkey? Where's the monkey? "

Adrien Brody
(04/14/1973 – )
US actor , on acting in "King Kong"
Ernest Frederick McIntyre Bickel "Keep interested in others; keep interested in the wide and wonderful world. Then in a spiritual sense you will always be young."

Fredric March
(08/31/1897 – 04/14/1975)
US actor
Sarah Michelle Gellar "I don't understand why James Bond has to be a man all the time. When Pierce Brosnan retires, why not one of us?"

Sarah Michelle Gellar
(04/14/1977 – )
US actor (married to Freddie Prinze, Jr.)
"There are still parts of Wales where the only concession to gaiety is a striped shroud."

Gwyn Thomas
(07/06/1913 – 04/14/1981)
Welsh writer
Simone de Beauvoir "It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. . . . Death does away with time."

Simone de Beauvoir
(01/09/1908 – 04/14/1986)
French writer

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