January 10

"If a tree dies, plant another in its place."

Carl Linnaeus
(05/23/1707 – 01/10/1778)
Swedish botanist, zoologist

John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, 1st Baron (of Aldenham)

"The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern."

John Dalberg Acton
(01/10/1834 – 06/19/1902)
English historian

"She was the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly ever."

Mary Russell Mitford
(12/16/1787 – 01/10/1855)
English writer , on Jane Austen

"Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market; or the precipice."

Robinson Jeffers
(01/10/1887 – 01/20/1962)
US writer

"Practical people would be more practical if they would take a little more time for dreaming."

J. P. McEvoy
(01/10/1897 – 08/08/1958)
US writer

"The American drummer is a one-man percussion orchestra."

Max Roach
(01/10/1925 – 08/16/2007)
US drummer

"I am constantly asked why I never made other films after "There's No Business Like Show Business," the answer is I was never asked."

Johnnie Ray
(01/10/1927 – 02/24/1990)
US singer

"Rock'n'roll was two pegs below being a prisoner of war back then."

Ronnie Hawkins
(01/10/1935 – )
US singer

"The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language."

Donald E. Knuth
(01/10/1938 – )
US computer scientist

"Today the biggest decisions I make aren't related to the heavyweight title. They are whether I visit McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's, or Jack-in-the-Box."

George Foreman
(01/10/1939 – )
US boxer, grill shill

"I'll never be mistaken for Pat Boone."

Sal Mineo
(01/10/1939 – 02/12/1976)
US actor

"I would like to see all people who read pornography or have anything to do with it put in a mental hospital for observation so we could find out what we have done to them."

Linda Lovelace
(01/10/1939 – 04/22/2002)
US porn star ("Deep Throat") turned antiporn crusader

"Listening to me has ruined a lot of other singers. A lot of singers who have tried to sound like me, they sound like they're going through so much pain."

Rod Stewart
(01/10/1945 – )
Scottish singer (was married to Britt Ekland, Rachel Hunter)

"As jazz fans, it was amusing for us to play jazz harmonies on these big, ugly electric guitars."

Donald Fagen
(01/10/1948 – )
US singer songwriter (Steely Dan) (also see Walter Becker)

"Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead."

Sinclair Lewis
(02/07/1885 – 01/10/1951)
US writer

"Most chick singers say 'If you hurt me, I'll die'...I say, 'if you hurt me, I'll kick your ass.'"

Pat Benatar
(01/10/1953 – )
US singer

"I think that the indefinable space between happy and sad is the most moving and compelling place for an artist to be. If there's anything I consistently strive for, it's a melancholy limbo."

Shawn Colvin
(01/10/1956 – )
US singer

"`Who shot him?' I asked.
The grey man scratched the back of his neck and said: `Somebody with a gun.'"

Dashiell Hammett
(05/27/1894 – 01/10/1961)
US writer (was married to Lillian Hellman)

"Youth is something very new. Twenty years ago no one mentioned it."

Coco Chanel
(08/09/1883 – 01/10/1971)
French designer, cosmetician

"We heard from the abortionists and we heard from the people who looked like Jacks, acted like Jills and had the odors of Johns."

George Meany
(08/16/1894 – 01/10/1980)
US labor organizer

Peter Marshall: "A western saddle has a curved horn on the front to hold something for the cowboy. What is it?"
Paul Lynde: "A passenger."
(06/13/1926 – 01/10/1982)
US comic, actor

"I refer to jet lag as 'jet-psychosis'—there's an old saying that the spirit cannot move faster than a camel."

Spalding Gray
(06/05/1941 – 01/10/2004)
US monologuist