"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
Maxwell Anderson "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
Sitting Bull "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
Sophina Elisabeth Wehner "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
Muriel Rukeyser "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
Edna O'Brien "The vote, I thought, means nothing to women. We should be armed."

Edna O'Brien
(12/15/1930 – )
Irish writer
Thomas Wright Waller "One never knows, do one?"

Fats Waller
(05/21/1904 – 12/15/1943)
US pianist, singer
Don Johnson "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)
Agnes Repplier "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
Alex Cox "Spielberg isn't a filmmaker, he's a confectioner."

Alex Cox
(12/15/1954 – )
English actor, director, writer "Repo Man"
Charles Laughton "They can't censor the gleam in my eye."

Charles Laughton
(07/01/1899 – 12/15/1962)
US actor (was married to Elsa Lanchester)
Walt Disney "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)
Diane Middlebrook "When I get inside the book I lose all my bearings."

Diane Middlebrook
(04/16/1939 – 12/15/2007)
US writer
Granville Oral Roberts "Well, I can't figure out God."

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