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"We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed womanscorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang."
Colley Cibber
(11/06/1671 12/11/1757)
English actor, playwright
"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."
Hector Berlioz
(12/11/1803 03/08/1869)
French composer
"How glorious it isand also how painfulto be an exception."
Alfred de Musset
(12/11/1810 05/02/1857)
French writer
"When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination."
Ellen Key
(12/11/1849 04/25/1926)
Swedish writer
"The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world."
Max Born
(12/11/1882 01/05/1970)
German physicist
"There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets."
Fiorello La Guardia
(12/11/1882 09/20/1947)
US mayor (NYC)
"Happy is he who can give himself up."
Naguib Mahfouz
(12/11/1911 08/30/2006)
Egyptian writer
"Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world."
Grace Paley
(12/11/1922 08/22/2007)
US writer
"Bigger than life is not difficult for me. I am bigger than life."
Rita Moreno
(12/11/1931 )
Puerto Rican actor, first to win an Oscar, a Tony, an Emmy, and a Grammy
"How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?"
John Kerry
(12/11/1943 )
US senator (MA)
, on Vietnam
"I've always had this American-pie face that would get work in commercials...I'd say things like 'Hi Marge, how's your laundry?' and 'Hi, I'm a real nice Georgia peach'. Sometimes this work is one step above being a cocktail waitress."
Teri Garr
(12/11/1949 )
US actor
"I hate things that are dilutedI mean, you don't mix Jack Daniel's with Coke. That's a sin!"
Nikki Sixx
(12/11/1958 )
US bassist (Motley Crue)
(also see Tommy Lee)
"God granted me the privilege of knowing the brilliant works of our time before they left the hands of their creators. And if I was allowed to assist these knights for a while, then my existence is justified and blessed!"
Alma Schindler Mahler Kokoschka Gropius Werfel
(08/31/1879 12/11/1964)
Austrian writer
(was married to Gustav Mahler, Walter Gropius, and Franz Werfel; had affairs with Oskar Kokoschka, Gustav Klimt, Arnold Schoenberg, Gerhart Hauptman, Alban Berg, Enrico Caruso, Alexander Zemlinksy, Johannes Hollnsteiner, among others)
"German is the most extravagantly ugly languageit sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747."
Willy Rushton
(08/18/1937 12/11/1996)
English comedian
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