August 08

"When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news."

Charles Anderson Dana
(08/08/1819 – 10/17/1897)
US newspaper magnate

"...And finds, with keen, discriminating sight,
Black's not so black, nor white so very white."

George Canning
(04/11/1770 – 08/08/1827)
British PM (19) (see other British PMs)

"Love thy neighbor as yourself, but choose your neighborhood."

Louise Lester Beal
(08/08/1867 – 11/18/1952)
US actor

"No one worth possessing can be quite possessed."

Sara Teasdale
(08/08/1884 – 01/29/1933)
US writer

"Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth."

Arthur J. Goldberg
(08/08/1908 – 01/19/1990)
US attorney

"I begged them to please make me something that wouldn't ride up my, well, you know. And they all told me that they used all the rubber for the tanks."

Esther Williams
(08/08/1921 – )
US swimming actor (was married to Fernando Lamas) , on wartime swimsuit material

"A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution."

Dustin Hoffman
(08/08/1937 – )
US actor

"They don't mean anything to me. Until I win one."

Keith Carradine
(08/08/1949 – )
US actor (son of John Carradine; brother of David Carradine; father of Martha Plimpton) , on awards

"If Thomas Jefferson had heard us, he probably would have said, 'We shouldn't have free speech.'"

Robin Quivers
(08/08/1952 – )
US radio, TV person , on co-hosting the Howard Stern show

"Practical people would be more practical if they would take a little more time for dreaming."

J. P. McEvoy
(01/10/1897 – 08/08/1958)
US writer

"The idea of a series of items, following one another docilely, forms the only possible reasonable approach to life if you have to live it with a home and a husband and children, none of whom would dream of following one another docilely."

Shirley Jackson
(12/14/1919 – 08/08/1965)
US writer

"The best-read idiot in the world."

Louise Brooks
(11/14/1906 – 08/08/1985)
US actor , on herself

"I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there."

Maureen Reagan
(01/04/1941 – 08/08/2001)
US first family member (daughter of Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman; sister of Michael Reagan; step-daughter of Nancy Reagan)

"I used to resent 'King Kong,' but now I don't fight it anymore. I realize that it is a classic, and I am pleased to be associated with it. Why, only recently an entire issue of a French magazine was devoted to discussing the picture from its artistic, moral and even religious aspects."

Fay Wray
(09/15/1907 – 08/08/2004)
US actor