"Bone and Skin, two millers thin,
Would starve us all, or near it;
But be it known to Skin and Bone
That Flesh and Blood can't bear it."

John Byrom
(02/29/1692 – 09/23/1763)
English writer

"One cannot judge 'Lohengrin' [by Wagner] from a first hearing, and I certainly do not intend to hear it a second time."

Gioacchino Rossini
(02/29/1792 – 11/13/1868)
Italian composer

"When he performs, it sounds as if the world has stopped at 2 AM."

Dinah Shore
(02/29/1916 – 02/24/1994)
US singer , on Tom Waits

"They don't make 'em too big for this business."

Tempest Storm
(02/29/1928 – )
US stripper

"Some people approach acting with all these things in their head, making it more complicated than it needs to be, way too cerebral. I don't want to know that an actor lived in a cave for 12 days so that he could prepare for a part."

Dennis Farina
(02/29/1944 – )
US actor

"Those who fear the imagination condemn it: something childish, they say, something monsterish, misbegotten. Not all of us dream awake. But those of us who do have no choice."

Patricia McKillip
(02/29/1948 – )
US writer

"Most people fail in life because they major in minor things."

Anthony Robbins
(02/29/1960 – )
US political advisor