May 04

Yesterday Tomorrow

"A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron."

Horace Mann
(05/04/1796 – 08/02/1859)
US educator

"You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you."

Joseph Joubert
(05/07/1754 – 05/04/1824)
French writer (died near his birthday)

"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something."

Thomas Henry Huxley
(05/04/1825 – 06/29/1895)
English biologist , grandfather of Aldous and Sir Julian Huxley

"Transplanting the ballet to the US is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota."

Lincoln Kirstein
(05/04/1907 – 01/05/1996)
US impresario

"I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing 'Funny Face' when I couldn't sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance—and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it."

Audrey Hepburn
(05/04/1929 – 01/20/1993)
Belgium-born actor

"She was a patron saint of the peripheral."

Jane Howard
(05/04/1935 – 06/27/1996)
US writer , on Margaret Mead

"I'll never die. I'll just explode, right there before your eyes, onstage."

Dick Dale
(05/04/1937 – )
US guitarist

"Football combines the two worst features of America life: violence and committee meetings."

George Will
(05/04/1941 – )
US columnist

"My contribution to the world is my ability to draw. I will draw as much as I can for as many people as I can for as long as I can. Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic."

Keith Haring
(05/04/1958 – 02/16/1990)
US artist

"I'm a liberal inside a liberal's body."

Ana Gasteyer
(05/04/1967 – )
US comic actor (SNL)

"In reality, killing time is only the name for another of the multifarious ways by which Time kills us."

Sir Osbert Sitwell
(12/06/1892 – 05/04/1969)
English writer (brother of Dame Edith)

"We're not nearly as violent as the westerns."

Moe Howard
(06/19/1897 – 05/04/1975)
US stooge (Also see Larry Fine, Curly Howard)

"(I'm) the only sex symbol Britain has produced since Lady Godiva."

Diana Dors
(10/23/1931 – 05/04/1984)
English actor

"An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for months or years. A competent attorney can delay one even longer."

Evelle J. Younger
(06/19/1918 – 05/04/1989)
US attorney general (CA)

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