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"Education is about the only thing lying around loose in the world, and it's about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he's willing to haul away."
George Lorimer
(10/06/1867 10/22/1937)
US editor (Saturday Evening Post)
"I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and allows less room for lies."
Le Corbusier
(10/06/1887 08/27/1965)
Swiss architect
"A louse in the locks of literature."
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
(08/06/1809 10/06/1892)
English writer
, on critic J. Churton Collins
"Relax, Georgie, I'm just making my collar and cuffs match."
Carole Lombard
(10/06/1908 01/16/1942)
US actor
, when George Raft discovered her applying peroxide to her pubic hair
"The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous."
Shana Alexander
(10/06/1925 06/23/2005)
US writer
"How can you eat anything with eyes?"
Will Kellogg
(04/07/1860 10/06/1951)
US cereal giant
"Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago."
Bernard Berenson
(06/26/1865 10/06/1959)
Lithuanian-US art critic
"I may be the girl next door, but you wouldn't want to live next to me."
Elisabeth Shue
(10/06/1963 )
US actor
"The iceberg cuts its facets from within
Like jewelry from a grave."
Elizabeth Bishop
(02/08/1911 10/06/1979)
US writer
"Old age is no place for sissies."
Bette Davis
(04/05/1908 10/06/1989)
US actor
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