Yesterday
Tomorrow
"A man said to the universe: 'Sir, I exist!' 'However,' replied the universe, 'That fact has not created in me a sense of obligation.'"
Stephen Crane
(11/01/1871 – 06/05/1900)
US writer
"It has been said that writing comes more easily if you have something to say."
Sholem Asch
(11/01/1880 – 07/10/1957)
Polish-Yiddish writer
"All wars are planned by old men, in council rooms apart."
Grantland Rice
(11/01/1880 – 07/13/1954)
US writer
"The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason."
Hermann Broch
(11/01/1886 – 05/30/1951)
German writer
"God is the tangential point between zero and infinity."
Alfred Jarry
(09/08/1873 – 11/01/1907)
French "pataphysical" writer
"I've been around so long that all the statues in Symphony Hall were little boys when I started."
Harry Ellis Dickson
(11/01/1908 – 03/29/2003)
US conductor
"Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it."
Gordon R. Dickson
(11/01/1923 – 01/31/2001)
Canadian writer
"The harder you work, the luckier you get."
Gary Player
(11/01/1935 – )
US golfer
"Sometimes the best songs almost write themselves."
Bill Anderson
(11/01/1937 – )
US singer, songwriter
"I'm suggesting we call sex something else, and it should include everything from kissing to sitting close together."
Shere Hite
(11/01/1942 – )
US researcher, writer (The Hite Report)
"I even went so far as to become a Southern Baptist for a while, until I realized that they didn't hold 'em under long enough."
Kinky Friedman
(11/01/1944 – )
US singer, songwriter
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain—and most fools do."
Dale Carnegie
(11/24/1888 – 11/01/1955)
US writer
"I inherited my father's insatiable desire to meet all the beautiful girls in the world."
Anthony Kiedis
(11/01/1962 – )
US singer (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
"Serve the dinner backward, do anything but for goodness sake, do something weird."
Elsa Maxwell
(05/24/1883 – 11/01/1963)
US writer, hostess
"For every action there is an equal and opposite government program."
Bob Wells
(11/01/1966 – )
US magazine editor
"Sometimes life hits you on the head with a saucepan. But I'm not here to talk about saucepans."
Toni Collette
(11/01/1972 – )
Australian actor
"I was a puke brunette."
Jenny McCarthy
(11/01/1972 – )
US model, actor
"For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word."
Catherine Drinker Bowen
(01/01/1897 – 11/01/1973)
US writer
"I want to be remembered as the guy who gave his all whenever he was on the field."
Walter Payton
(07/25/1954 – 11/01/1999)
US football player
"I believe that the supreme duty of the historian is to write history, that is to say, to attempt to record in one sweeping sequence the greater events and movements that have swayed the destiny of man."
Sir Stephen Runciman
(07/07/1903 – 11/01/2000)
Scottish historian
"The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis."
William Styron
(06/11/1925 – 11/01/2006)
US writer
Yesterday
Tomorrow
"Keep it light so you can say a lot more, especially if it's something you care about."
Naomi Mitchison
"The deeper you go, the deeper it gets."
Steven Miller
"Literature is news that stays news."
Ezra Pound