Yesterday
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"My only books
Were Woman's looks,
And Folly's all they taught me."
Thomas Moore
(05/28/1779 – 02/25/1852)
Irish writer
"I cannot afford to waste my time making money."
Louis Agassiz
(05/28/1807 – 12/14/1873)
Swiss-US naturalist
"Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters."
Noah Webster
(10/16/1758 – 05/28/1843)
US writer
"But he that dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose."
Anne Brontė
(01/17/1820 – 05/28/1849)
English writer
(sister of Charlotte and Emily Brontė)
"I'm looking for Commander James Bond, not an overgrown stunt man."
Ian Fleming
(05/28/1908 – 08/12/1964)
Scottish writer
, on meeting Sean Connery
"Well, good luck to you, kid! I'm going to write the Great Australian Novel."
Patrick White
(05/28/1912 – 09/30/1990)
Australian writer
"Why is it that of all the billions and billions of strange objects in the Cosmos—novas, quasars, pulsars, black holes—you are beyond doubt the strangest?"
Walker Percy
(05/28/1911 – 05/10/1990)
(southern) US writer
"What we see depends mainly on what we look for."
Sir John Lubbock
(04/30/1834 – 05/28/1913)
English naturalist
"If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way."
Barry Commoner
(05/28/1917 – )
US Director, Center of the Biology of Natural Systems
"We play in the den of the Gods and snort at death."
May Swenson
(05/28/1919 – 12/04/1989)
US writer
"The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions."
Alfred Adler
(02/07/1880 – 05/28/1937)
Austrian psychologist
"Basically, I hate conformity. I hate people telling me what to do. It makes me want to smash things. So-called normal behaviour patterns make me so bored, I could throw up!"
Wendy O. Williams
(05/28/1949 – 04/06/1998)
US singer (Plasmatics)
"I don't have to try to be a sex bomb, I am one!"
Kylie Minogue
(05/28/1968 – )
Australian actor
"After the war, France and England should join hands to make a formidable fart."
Edward VIII, Duke of Windsor
(06/28/1894 – 05/28/1972)
English royalty
, misspeaking in French to French troops during WWII
"I'm 49 years old and I'm cautious of the fact that very few people in comedy have careers after age 50. I think there's a notion in our society, and it may be valid, that people aren't as funny when they get older. It's a stigma still attached to the rebelliousness of youth. I do believe that sooner or later I'll get those great roles like Gary Sinise's part in "Forrest Gump" or Tommy Lee Jones' as "Two Face" in "Batman Forever"."
Phil Hartman
(09/24/1948 – 05/28/1998)
US comic actor
(SNL)
"Well, that was a cliff-dweller."
Wes Westrum
(11/28/1922 – 05/28/2002)
US baseball player, coach
, on a close game
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