December 15

"No man is born an Artist nor an Angler."

Izaak Walton
(08/09/1593 – 12/15/1683)
English writer (Compleat Angler)

"Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition."

Eliza Wood Burhans Farnham
(11/17/1815 – 12/15/1864)
US social reformer

"There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime."

Maxwell Anderson
(12/15/1888 – 02/28/1959)
US playwright , on George Washington

"Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows."

Sitting Bull
(??/??/1831 – 12/15/1890)
US native chief

"If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars."

J. Paul Getty
(12/15/1892 – 06/06/1976)
US zillionaire

"Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory."

Betty Smith
(12/15/1896 – 01/17/1972)
US writer

"By and by
God caught his eye."

David McCord
(12/15/1897 – 04/13/1997)
US writer , epitaph for a waiter

"Twelve? Who needs twelve? Couldn't we make do with six?"

Lew Grade
(12/15/1906 – 12/12/1998)
Ukrainian producer (died near his birthday) , on filming apostles

"The universe is made of stories, not atoms."

Muriel Rukeyser
(12/15/1913 – 02/12/1980)
US writer

"It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment."

Freeman Dyson
(12/15/1923 – )
English physicist

"The vote, I thought, means nothing to women. We should be armed."

Edna O'Brien
(12/15/1930 – )
Irish writer

"One never knows, do one?"

Fats Waller
(05/21/1904 – 12/15/1943)
US pianist, singer

"I can do whatever I want—I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you."

Don Johnson
(12/15/1949 – )
US actor (was married to Melanie Griffith)

"People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization."

Agnes Repplier
(04/01/1858 – 12/15/1950)
US writer

"Spielberg isn't a filmmaker, he's a confectioner."

Alex Cox
(12/15/1954 – )
English actor, director, writer "Repo Man"

"They can't censor the gleam in my eye."

Charles Laughton
(07/01/1899 – 12/15/1962)
US actor (was married to Elsa Lanchester)

"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."

Walt Disney
(12/05/1901 – 12/15/1966)
US filmmaker

"The poor taxpayer may wipe his shoes on a $3 doormat when he goes home, but not the Navy. It is, damn the cost, full feet ahead on a doormat you would be ashamed to get muddy."

William Proxmire
(11/11/1915 – 12/15/2005)
US Senator (WI)

"When I get inside the book I lose all my bearings."

Diane Middlebrook
(04/16/1939 – 12/15/2007)
US writer

"Well, I can't figure out God."

Oral Roberts
(01/24/1918 – 12/15/2009)
US televangelist