September 07

"I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married."

Queen Elizabeth I
(09/07/1533 – 03/24/1603)
English royalty

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal."

Hannah More
(02/02/1745 – 09/07/1833)
English writer

"The style is the man himself."

George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon
(09/07/1707 – 04/16/1788)
French scientist

"I'm patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it."

Dame Edith Sitwell
(09/07/1887 – 12/09/1964)
English writer (sister of Sir Osbert)

"Here Greek and Roman find themselves
Alive along these crowded shelves;
And Shakespeare treads again his stage,
And Chaucer paints anew his age."

John Greenleaf Whittier
(12/17/1807 – 09/07/1892)
US writer , on the library

"When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less."

Paul Brown
(09/07/1908 – 08/05/1991)
US football coach

"The biggest bug in the manure pile."

Elia Kazan
(09/07/1909 – 09/28/2003)
Constantinople-born filmmaker , on Harry Cohn

"I think the world is run by C students."

Al McGuire
(09/07/1931 – 01/26/2001)
US basketball coach

"If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments—we'd have the Ten Suggestions."

Sir Malcolm Bradbury
(09/07/1932 – 11/28/2000)
English writer

"If anyone asks you what kind of music you play, tell him 'pop.' Don't tell him 'rock'n'roll' or they won't even let you in the hotel."

Buddy Holly
(09/07/1936 – 02/03/1959)
US singer, songwriter (Crickets)

"The sound, it looks wonderful."

Dario Argento
(09/07/1940 – )
Italian director

"When I wake up in the middle of the night, I don't worry about cancer. I worry about Harper's Bazaar."

Elizabeth Tilberis
(09/07/1947 – 04/21/1999)
US editor (Harper's Bazaar)

"I first saw [President Reagan] as a foot, a highly polished brown cordovan wagging merrily on a hassock. I spied it through the door.It was a beautiful foot, sleek. Such casual elegance and clean lines! But not a big foot, not formidable, maybe a little. . . frail.I imagined cradling it in my arms, protecting it from unsmooth roads."

Peggy Noonan
(09/07/1950 – )
US speechwriter

"The thing about Janis is that she just looked so unique, an ugly duckling dressed as a princess, fearlessly so. Seeing her live was like watching a boxing match. Her performance was so in your face and electrifying that it really put you right there in the moment. There you were living your nice little life in the suburbs and suddenly there was this train wreck, and it was Janis."

Chrissie Hynde
(09/07/1951 – )
US singer, songwriter (Pretenders) (was married to Ray Davies)

"When I see myself on the screen, I am so beautiful, I jump for joy."

Maria Montez
(06/06/1917 – 09/07/1951)
Dominican actor (was married to Jean-Pierre Aumont; mother with him of Tina Aumont)

"There is no more vulnerable human combination than an undergraduate."

John Sloan
(08/02/1871 – 09/07/1951)
US artist

"Man and woman are two locked caskets, of which each contains the key to the other."

Isak Dinesen
(04/17/1885 – 09/07/1962)
Danish writer

"A billion here, a billion there—pretty soon it adds up to real money."

Everett Dirksen
(01/04/1896 – 09/07/1969)
US senator (IL)

"I'm the best Keith Moon-type drummer in the world."

Keith Moon
(08/23/1946 – 09/07/1978)
English drummer (The Who)

"Like most of those who study history, he [Napoleon III] learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones."

A. J. P. Taylor
(03/25/1906 – 09/07/1990)
English historian

"I got to be the most f890ed up rock star on the block, at least on my block, and then I got to be a sober dad for 18 years. I've had two very full lives."

Warren Zevon
(01/24/1947 – 09/07/2003)
US singer, songwriter