Yesterday     Tomorrow

"I can't believe how blessed I am! I'm married to the most wonderful man, Gene Raymond, whom I'm deeply in love with, and, my career is right where I want it to be. I can live like this forever!"

Jeanette MacDonald
(06/18/1903 – 01/14/1965)
US actor , in 1943

"One of the soundest rules to remember when making forecasts in the field of economics is that whatever is to happen is happening already."

Sylvia Porter
(06/18/1913 – 06/05/1991)
US economist

"And really the purpose of art—for me, fiction—is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain that when you rush through you will not miss the moment which you might have had, or might still have."

Jerzy Kosinski
(06/18/1933 – 05/03/1991)
Polish writer

"In the carriages of the past you can't go anywhere."

Maxim Gorky
(03/28/1868 – 06/18/1936)
Russian writer

"Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language."

Gail Godwin
(06/18/1937 – )
US writer

"When I was a kid, I used to imagine animals running under my bed. I told my dad, and he solved the problem quickly. He cut the legs off the bed."

Lou Brock
(06/18/1939 – )
US baseball player

"Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.'"

Sir Paul McCartney
(06/18/1942 – )
English musician (Beatles; was married to Linda Eastman)

"When I see myself on film, I find it kind of disturbing. She is so much in me. It's a genetic thing."

Isabella Rossellini
(06/18/1952 – )
Italian actor , on her mom Ingrid Bergman

"I don't put together cars, I put together people. It makes me happy to construct these people, to build another world. I feel happy and free and very consumed."

Carol Kane
(06/18/1952 – )
US actor

"You grow up the day you have your first real laugh, at yourself."

Ethel Barrymore
(08/15/1879 – 06/18/1959)
US actor (sister of John and Lionel, aunt of John Drew, great-aunt of Drew)

"Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you."

Pamela Hansford Johnson
(05/29/1912 – 06/18/1981)
US writer , engaged to Dylan Thomas, married to Gordon Stewart and then C. P. Snow

"A collection of short stories is generally thought to be a horrendous clinker; an enforced courtesy for the elderly writer who wants to display the trophies of his youth, along with his trout flies."

John Cheever
(05/27/1912 – 06/18/1982)
US writer

"Life is painful, nasty and short... in my case it has only been painful and nasty."

Djuna Barnes
(06/12/1892 – 06/18/1982)
US writer (died near her birthday)

"If you live long enough, the venerability factor creeps in; you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had."

I. F. Stone
(12/24/1907 – 06/18/1989)
US writer

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