August 04

"The Galilean is not a favorite of mine. So far from owing him any thanks for his favor, I cannot avoid confessing that I owe a secret grudge to his carpentership."

Percy Bysshe Shelley
(08/04/1792 – 07/08/1822)
English writer (was married to Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

"One, two, three four—thus I sit and make notes and write little pieces for myself. It is to no purpose, just an old habit. I leak muted words. I am a dripping tap, one, two, three, four..."

Knut Hamsun
(08/04/1859 – 02/19/1952)
Norwegian writer

"Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps."

Hans Christian Andersen
(04/02/1805 – 08/04/1875)
Danish writer

"All music is folk music. I ain't never heard no horse sing a song."

Louis Armstrong
(08/04/1901 – 07/06/1971)
US bandleader, singer, trumpet player, jazz pioneer

"Eccentricity, to be socially acceptable, had still to have at least four or five generations of inbreeding behind it."

Sir Osbert Lancaster
(08/04/1908 – 07/27/1980)
English illustrator, gardener

"I can't sit through plays and musical theatre. I just want to run up onstage and mess up their hair and turn over the furniture."

Billy Bob Thornton
(08/04/1955 – )
US actor (was married to Angelina Jolie)

"I'm not Jesus Christ with a wrench, but I'm somebody with a wrench."

Paul Terrell
(08/04/1959 – )
US friend of the quotemaster (father of Isaac)

"My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington."

Barack Obama
(08/04/1961 – )
US President (44) (See other US Presidents)

"Someday we may have as many followers as the harpsichord."

Eddie Condon
(11/16/1904 – 08/04/1973)
US guitarist , on guitar players

"I've only got one wrinkle and I'm sitting on it."

Jeanne Calment
(02/21/1875 – 08/04/1997)
French 120 year old person ~also blind

"If you're so concerned about f890ing privacy, don't become a f890ing actor!"

Victor Mature
(01/29/1916 – 08/04/1999)
US non-actor

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