July 01

"A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was."

Joseph Hall
(07/01/1574 – 09/08/1656)
English bishop

"Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting."

G. Wilhelm Liebniz
(07/01/1646 – 11/14/1716)
German philosopher

"What they call 'heart' lies much lower than the fourth waistcoat button."

Georg C. Lichtenberg
(07/01/1742 – 02/24/1799)
German writer

"The trade of authorship is a violent and indestructible obsession."

George Sand
(07/01/1804 – 06/08/1876)
French writer

"The passion for destruction is also a creative passion."

Mikhail Bakunin
(05/30/1814 – 07/01/1876)
Russian subversive

"I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation."

Harriet Beecher Stowe
(06/14/1811 – 07/01/1896)
US writer , on Uncle Tom's Cabin

"It's got so that every time I walk into a restaurant I get not only soup but an impersonation of Captain Bligh."

Charles Laughton
(07/01/1899 – 12/15/1962)
English actor (was married to Elsa Lanchester)

"The nicest thing I can say about Frances Farmer is that she is unbearable."

William Wyler
(07/01/1902 – 07/27/1981)
French director

"The Negro and all things negroid had become a fad, and Harlem had become a shrine to which feverish pilgrimages were in order... Seventh Avenue was the gorge into which Harlem cliff dwellers crowded to promenade."

Wallace Henry Thurman
(07/01/1902 – 12/22/1934)
US writer

"I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the lives of those people."

Mary Steichen Calderone
(07/01/1904 – 10/24/1998)
US physician, writer

"Look for a sweet person. Forget rich."

Estee Lauder
(07/01/1908 – 04/24/2004)
US cosmetician

"When vultures watching your civilization begin dropping dead, it is time to pause and wonder."

David Brower
(07/01/1912 – 11/05/2000)
US environmentalist

"The blues are the roots, and everything else are the fruits."

Willie Dixon
(07/01/1915 – 01/19/1992)
US singer

"From time to time, I need a rest from the exercitation of my intellect."

Jean Stafford
(07/01/1915 – 03/26/1979)
US writer (was married to A. J. Liebling)

"People should not be surprised by screen chemistry because, after all, life is chemistry."

Olivia de Havilland
(07/01/1916 – )
Japan-born US actor (sister of Joan Fontaine)

"When I was young, I was told: 'You'll see, when you're fifty.' I am fifty and I haven't seen a thing."

Erik Satie
(05/17/1866 – 07/01/1925)
French composer

"I'm not a ballerina. I'm a hoofer."

Leslie Caron
(07/01/1931 – )
French hoofer, actor

"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home."

Twyla Tharp
(07/01/1941 – )
US dancer, choreographer

"I once served a steak to Janis Joplin at Max's Kansas City. She was quiet and very polite. She didn't eat her steak but left a five dollar tip."

Deborah Harry
(07/01/1945 – )
US singer (Blondie)

"We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race."

Dan Aykroyd
(07/01/1952 – )
Canadian actor (SNL)

"With the birth of a child you lose two novels."

Candia McWilliam
(07/01/1955 – )
Scottish writer

"Being a princess isn't all it's cracked up to be."

Princess Diana
(07/01/1961 – 08/31/1997)
English royalty (was married to Prince Charles)

"To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose."

Louis-Ferdinand Celine
(05/27/1894 – 07/01/1961)
French writer

"I created an image, I created a brand, I think, out of myself. It is a business and it's fun. It really is who I am. I am not acting any different than I normally would."

Pamela Anderson
(07/01/1967 – )
Canadian actor (was married to Tommy Lee)

"Those smells that remind me of home. I can smell my dad from a mile away. I can smell it whenever he's worn my clothes. He has this ambery smell that just melts into him."

Liv Tyler
(07/01/1977 – )
US actor

Charles Percy Snow, Baron Snow of the City of Leicester

"Civilization is hideously fragile; there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish."

C. P. Snow
(10/15/1905 – 07/01/1980)
English writer (was married to Pamela Hansford Johnson)

"Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment."

R. Buckminster Fuller
(02/12/1895 – 07/01/1983)
US engineer, architect (great-nephew of Margaret)

"...turn the impossible into the possible, the difficult into the easy, and the easy into the pleasant."

Moshe Feldenkrais
(05/06/1904 – 07/01/1984)
Russian founder, Feldenkrais Method

"I started out to be a sex fiend, but I couldn't pass the physical."

Robert Mitchum
(08/06/1917 – 07/01/1997)
US actor

"It is never wise to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so."

Lord William Whitelaw
(06/28/1916 – 07/01/1999)
Scottish politician (died near his birthday)

"I never mind my wife having the last word. In fact, I'm delighted when she gets to it."

Walter Matthau
(10/01/1920 – 07/01/2000)
US actor (was married to Carol Grace Matthau)

"The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money."

Marlon Brando
(04/03/1924 – 07/01/2004)
US actor