January 15

"Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive."

Jean-Baptiste Moliere
(01/15/1622 – 02/17/1673)
French writer

"The newspapers are the cemeteries of ideas."

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
(01/15/1809 – 01/19/1865)
French writer

"Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army."

Edward Everett
(04/11/1794 – 01/15/1865)
US educator

"There's something Vichy about the French."

Ivor Novello
(01/15/1893 – 03/06/1951)
US actor

"Familiarity breeds attempt."

Goodman Ace
(01/15/1899 – 03/25/1982)
US humorist (was married to Jane Ace)

"If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning."

Aristotle Onassis
(01/15/1906 – 03/15/1975)
Greek zillionaire (was married to Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, father of Christina Onassis)

"Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible."

Edward Teller
(01/15/1908 – 09/09/2003)
US scientist

"Carrying those double tanks around all the time got to be a little rough on me. I had to put that damn wetsuit on and take it off, sometimes three or four times a day."

Lloyd Bridges
(01/15/1913 – 03/10/1998)
US actor (father of Beau and Jeff Bridges) , on his role in the "Sea Hunt" TV series

"Life cannot be captured in a few axioms. And that is just what I keep trying to do. But it won't work, for life is full of endless nuances and cannot be captured in just a few formulae."

Etty Hillesum
(01/15/1914 – 11/30/1943)
Dutch lawyer, writer (died at Auschwitz)

"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

Martin Luther King, Jr.
(01/15/1929 – 04/04/1968)
US religious leader, civil rights activist

"Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything."

Ernest J. Gaines
(01/15/1933 – )
US writer

"When I cry, do you want the tears to run all the way or shall I stop halfway down?"

Margaret O'Brien
(01/15/1937 – )
precocious US actor , at age 6

"We wanted to be the biggest cult heroes in the world, to be millionaires, to be brilliant, and to be total bastards."

Julian Cope
(01/15/1941 – )
Welsh singer (Teardrop Explodes)

"I don't know anything about music. I don't think I do music. I think I do spells."

Captain Beefheart
(01/15/1941 – )
US musician

"That incident ruined my reputation for 10 years. Get one Beatle drunk and look what happens!"

Harry Nilsson
(06/15/1941 – 01/15/1994)
US singer, songwriter , on his participation in John Lennon's "Lost Weekend"

"The people who work in publishing are crazier than the people who work in Hollywood."

Olivia Goldsmith
(??/??/1949 – 01/15/2004)
US writer

"I understand her. I may not be all Phoebe, but she is all me."

Ruth Warrick
(06/29/1915 – 01/15/2005)
US actor , on her character Phoebe Tyler Wallingford on "All My Children"

"As long as mixed grills and combination salads are popular, anthologies will undoubtedly continue in favor."

Elizabeth Janeway
(10/07/1913 – 01/15/2005)
US writer