August 07

"If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens."

"Grandma" Moses
(08/07/1860 – 03/31/1961)
(Some say 09/07 – 12/13)
US artist

"The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word."

Mata Hari
(08/07/1876 – 10/15/1917)
Dutch spy

"Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese."

Billie Burke
(08/07/1885 – 05/14/1970)
US actor

"There are no warlike peoples—just warlike leaders."

Dr. Ralph Johnson Bunche
(08/07/1904 – 12/09/1971)
US diplomat, Nobelist

"In the creative process there is the father, the author of the play; the mother, the actor pregnant with the part; and the child, the role to be born."

Konstantin Stanislavsky
(01/17/1863 – 08/07/1938)
Russian actor, director, method

"Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand
with a grip that kills it."

Rabindranath Tagore
(05/06/1861 – 08/07/1941)
Indian writer

"They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days."

Garrison Keillor
(08/07/1942 – )
US radio show host and writer

"A big cat detained briefly in a poodle parlour, sharpening her claws on the velvet."

Matthew Parris
(08/07/1949 – )
Africa-born English writer , on Margaret Thatcher in the House of Lords

"I don't know much, but I know a little about a lot of things."

Oliver Hardy
(01/18/1882 – 08/07/1957)
US actor (also see Stan Laurel)

"Sometimes when I'm swimming, I think that maybe someday I'll put my red Speedo up for auction. Or maybe I'll donate it to the Smithsonian. They can stuff it with two plums and a gherkin and put it on display."

David Duchovny
(08/07/1960 – )
US actor (married to Téa Leoni)

"In court, she was kind of like a blow fish. She blew herself up in order to survive."

Charlize Theron
(08/07/1975 – )
S. African actor , on Aileen Wuornos, whom she portrayed in "Monster"

"Whenever people say 'we mustn't be sentimental,' you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add, 'we must be realistic,' they mean they are going to make money out of it."

Brigid Brophy
(06/12/1929 – 08/07/1995)
English writer

"On the whole, I am against mass murder. I rarely commit it myself, and often find myself quite out of sympathy with those who make a habit of it."

Bernard Levin
(08/19/1928 – 08/07/2004)
English writer

"Some people continue to pretend that anchor people are reporters."

Peter Jennings
(07/29/1938 – 08/07/2005)
US telejournalist