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"The more he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
(05/25/1803 04/27/1882)
US writer
"The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost."
Bennett Cerf
(05/25/1898 08/12/1971)
US humorist
"What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible."
Theodore Roethke
(05/25/1908 08/01/1963)
US writer
"The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet."
Theodore Martin Hesburgh
(05/25/1917 )
US priest
"I grew up without knowing anything about prejudice; my mother saw to that. If parents would keep prejudice and intolerance to themselves for one generation, we would have a different world."
Jeanne Crain
(05/25/1925 12/14/2003)
US actor
"My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used to do. It can't."
Beverly Sills
(05/25/1929 07/02/2007)
US opera singer
"I started all over again on page 1, circling the 262 pages like a vulture looking for live flesh to scavenge."
John Gregory Dunne
(05/25/1932 12/30/2003)
US writer
(was married to Joan Didion)
"Nobody knows a hit before it's a hit."
Tom T. Hall
(05/25/1936 )
US singer, songwriter
"So that was a very defining point of that relationship."
Sir Ian McKellen
(05/25/1939 )
English actor
, on his mother's death when he was 12
"Everyone gets frustrated and aggressive, and I'd sooner take my aggression out on a guitar than on a person."
Paul Weller
(05/25/1958 )
English singer, songwriter, guitarist (the Jam)
(also see Rick Buckler)
"Marriage can be viewed as the waiting room for death."
Mike Myers
(05/25/1963 )
Canadian comic, actor
(SNL)
"Vibrators. I think they are great. They keep you out of stupid sex. I'd pitch them to anybody."
Anne Heche
(05/25/1969 )
US actor
, one-time girlfriend of Ellen deGeneres
"Give exceeding thanks for the mystery which remains a mystery stillthe veil that hides you from the infinite, which makes it possible for you to believe in what you cannot see."
Robert Nathan
(01/02/1894 05/25/1985)
US writer
"A man who wants time to read and write must let the grass grow long."
Sloan Wilson
(05/08/1920 05/25/2003)
US writer (Man In The Grey Flannel Suit)
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