August 15 Birthdays

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her masters there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public school. My dad had a more working-class lifestyle. He didnt go to college. He was an auto mechanic and a bartender and a janitor at Harvard.

I just kind of opened up and said, 'I feel like a rag doll. I have hair and makeup people coming to my house every day and putting me in new, uncomfortable, weird dresses and expensive shoes, and I just shut down and raise my arms up for them to get the dress on, and pout my lips when they need to put the lipstick on.'

Set your heights more than what you see around you, see beyond.

When I appear in public people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth, paw the ground and swish my tail - none of which is easy.

Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself someday.

My job is to be fit and Im really blessed that I get to go and work out and live a really healthy lifestyle.

The electron can no longer be conceived as a single, small granule of electricity, it must be associated with a wave, and this wave is no myth, its wavelength can be measured and its interferences predicted.

The public is a bad guesser.

Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation.

A woman can look both moral and exciting . . . if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded as a mere usurpation or engine of tyranny.

I dream of a collaboration that would finally be total, in which the librettist would often think as a composer and the composer as a librettist.

Im still a kid inside, and adventure is adventure wherever you find it.

At the end of the day, the quality of life is all we have, and its just as important to that lobster, the quality of life that it lives - even if its not as long - as the quality of your life.

Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions, there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, thats why it is so complicated.

Nobody knows anything. I deal with people in all walks of life, some of whom should have some idea of what theyre doing. And theyre all clueless. Its astonishing that any bridges stay up, or that planes dont constantly plummet from the sky. Its heartening, in a strange way.

I feel like if I live the Christian life, then the people should be able to see it in my everyday actions.

True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.

Many men would take the death-sentence without a whimper to escape the life-sentence which fate carries in her other hand.

I don't believe that a lot of the things I hear on the air today are going to be played for as long a time as Coleman Hawkins records or Brahms concertos.