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"It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be."

Virgil
(10/15/0070 – 09/21/0019 BC)
Roman writer

"My cousin Francis and I are in perfect accord—he wants Milan, and so do I."

Charles V
(02/24/1500 – 09/21/1558)
Roman emperor (image courtesy of the Bridgeman Art Library)

"Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first."

Arthur Schopenhauer
(02/22/1788 – 09/21/1860)
German philosopher

"Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race."

H. G. Wells
(09/21/1866 – 08/13/1946)
English writer

"A private meeting with Hoover is like sitting in a bath of ink."

Henry Stimson
(09/21/1867 – 10/20/1950)
US Secretary of War

"Animation isn't the illusion of life; it is life!"

Chuck Jones
(09/21/1912 – 02/22/2002)
US animator

"My definition of a redundancy is an air bag in a politician's car."

Larry Hagman
(09/21/1931 – )
US actor (son of Mary Martin) , shown with Barbara Eden

"First things first, second things never."

Shirley Conran
(09/21/1932 – )
English writer

"There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in."

Leonard Cohen
(09/21/1934 – )
Canadian writer

"We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones."

Stephen King
(09/21/1947 – )
US writer

"I'm a nut, but not just a nut."

Bill Murray
(09/21/1950 – )
US comic, actor (SNL)

"We go home safe in the knowledge that we've deafened a few."

Phil Taylor
(09/21/1954 – )
Motörhead drummer 1977-84

"I never set out to be a role model for large women, I just do what I feel is right."

Ricki Lake
(09/21/1968 – )
US actor

"Patriotism is the last refuge of the sculptor."

William Plomer
(12/10/1903 – 09/21/1973)
S. African-English writer , on a South African statue of the Voortrekkers

"When Mike Wayne walked into the V.I.P. Lounge at Kennedy Airport, the hostess was positive he was a movie star. He had that look of someone you've seen many times but know you've never met."

Jacqueline Susann
(08/20/1921 – 09/21/1974)
US writer

"I like being unconventional."

Florence Griffith-Joyner
(12/21/1960 – 09/21/1998)
US runner

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