02/11 12/12 12/13 12/14 Died 12/12 Died 12/13 Died 12/14
"Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid."

Heinrich Heine
(12/13/1797 – 02/17/1856)
German writer
"Others live on in a careless and lukewarm state—not appearing to fill Longfellow's measure: 'Into each life, some rain must fall.'"

Mary Todd Lincoln
(12/13/1818 – 07/16/1882)
US First Lady (16) (wife of Abraham Lincoln; see all US First Ladies) Mary Todd Lincoln
"It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you."

Phillips Brooks
(12/13/1835 – 01/23/1893)
US clergyman Phillips Brooks
"Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates."

Dr. Abbott Lawrence Lowell
(12/13/1865 – 01/06/1943)
US educator, lawyer (grandfather of Amy Lowell)
"Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs."

Emily Carr
(12/13/1871 – 03/02/1945)
Canadian artist, writer Emily Carr
"A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately."

Eleanor Robson Belmont
(12/13/1879 – 10/24/1979)
English-US actor, writer
"Nothing is wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure."

Ross MacDonald
(12/13/1915 – 07/11/1983)
US writer Kenneth Millar
"I learned in business that you had to be very careful when you told somebody that's working for you to do something, because the chances were very high he'd do it. In government, you don't have to worry about that."

George P. Schultz
(12/13/1920 – )
US Secretary of State (60)
"I learned everything that I know about comedy and about show business and a lot about life from Carl [Reiner]." Dick van Dyke
(12/13/1925 – )
US comic actor Dick van Dyke
"Working with Julie Andrews is like being hit over the head with a Valentine card." Christopher Plummer
(12/13/1929 – )
English actor Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer
"The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious."

Lester Bangs
(12/13/1948 – 04/30/1982)
US writer Lester Bangs
"Basically, I'm just an erector set looking for some volts."

Ted Nugent
(12/13/1948 – )
US singer, songwriter, guitarist Ted Nugent
"The press deserves nothing but lies."

Tom Verlaine
(12/13/1949 – )
US singer, songwriter, guitarist (Television) Tom Miller
"To err is dysfunctional, to forgive codependent."

Berton Averre
(12/13/1954 – )
English singer (the Knack) Berton Averre
"My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail."

Steve Buscemi
(12/13/1957 – )
US actor, fireman Steve Buscemi
02/11 12/12 12/13 12/14 Died 12/12 Died 12/13 Died 12/14