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"If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams—the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn."

Robert Southey
(08/12/1774 – 03/21/1843)
English writer

"You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough."

William Blake
(11/28/1757 – 08/12/1827)
English writer

"Common sense, a sense of humor, more common sense."

Madame Helene Petrovna Blavatsky
(08/12/1831 – 05/08/1891)
Russian writer, mystic , on requirements for the study of Theosophy

"A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can."

Edith Hamilton
(08/12/1867 – 05/31/1963)
US educator

"What do you want me to do? Stop shooting now and release it as The Five Commandments?"

Cecil B. de Mille
(08/12/1881 – 01/21/1959)
US director (uncle of Agnes de Mille) , running over budget on the filming of "The Ten Commandments"

"Oh, write of me, not 'Died in bitter pains,'
But 'Emigrated to another star!'"

Helen Hunt Jackson
(10/15/1830 – 08/12/1885)
US writer

"I am who I am, I am what I am, I do what I do and I ain't never gonna do it any different. I don't care who likes it and who don't."

Buck Owens
(08/12/1929 – 03/25/2006)
US musician

"I've got huge admiration for prose writers because I just know that I'd be no good at it. I don't think I'd try to write a novel or a screenplay or be a poet even. When you're peddling ditties, it's a different thing."

Mark Knopfler
(08/12/1949 – )
English guitarist (Dire Straits)

"A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own."

Thomas Mann
(06/06/1875 – 08/12/1955)
German writer

"A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle."

Ian Fleming
(05/28/1908 – 08/12/1964)
Scottish writer

"Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance."

Bennett Cerf
(05/25/1898 – 08/12/1971)
US humorist

"I listen to Reagan and I want to throw up."

Henry Fonda
(05/16/1905 – 08/12/1982)
US actor (father of Jane and Peter, grandfather of Bridget)

"If someone says 'can't,' that shows you what to do."

John Cage
(09/05/1912 – 08/12/1992)
US composer

"If you want a place in the sun, you have to expect a few blisters."

Loretta Young
(01/06/1913 – 08/12/2000)
US actor

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