July 31

"Let them impeach, and be damned!"

Andrew Johnson
(12/29/1808 – 07/31/1875)
US President (17), VP (16) (see all US Presidents, VPs)

"The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity."

Jean Dubuffet
(07/31/1901 – 05/12/1985)
French artist

"Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned."

Milton Friedman
(07/31/1912 – 11/16/2006)
US economist

"What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?"

Irv Kupcinet
(07/31/1912 – 11/10/2003)
US writer

"If there's a pileup, they'll have to give some of the players artificial insemination."

Curt Gowdy
(07/31/1919 – 02/20/2006)
US sports announcer , announcing for the AFL all-star game on a flooded field

"It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared."

Whitney M. Young, Jr.
(07/31/1921 – 03/11/1971)
US writer

"And tell me, does your husband have big balls?"

Lynne Reid Banks
(07/31/1929 – )
English writer , to wife of Swedish ambassador to England, referring to social events

"I think we've blown up everything we can blow up."

Sherry Lansing
(07/31/1944 – )
US film director (married to William Friedkin)

"Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them."

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
(06/29/1900 – 07/31/1944)
French writer, adventurer

"Well, it will be a papery object with pages inside."

J. K. Rowling
(07/31/1965 – )
English writer , on the next Harry Potter book

"If there is a technological advance without a social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery."

Michael Harrington
(02/24/1928 – 07/31/1989)
US writer

"We live with our archetypes, but can we live in them?"

Poul Anderson
(11/25/1932 – 07/31/2001)
US writer