August 27 Birthdays

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

I do not think that a flight across the Atlantic will be made in our time, and in our time I include the youngest readers.

Im from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I was driving over to Beverly Hills, to 20th Century Fox, to be on M*A*S*H!

People in general attach too much importance to words. They are under the illusion that talking effects great results. As a matter of fact, words are, as a rule, the shallowest portion of all the argument. They but dimly represent the great surging feelings and desires which lie behind. When the distraction of the tongue is removed, the heart listens.

Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.

I was brought up by great parents and great grandparents who told me, Never, ever think that youre better than anyone else or that what you do is so important that the world wont miss you once youre gone, and I kind of translate that into the stardom thing.

Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Jeanette Winterson

It seems the brighter you are, the deeper the hole you get into.

I cant be a hypocrite as a coach because as a player thats what I wanted. I wanted feedback, I wanted communication from the boss. I showed up for work, you can yell at me if you want, but I want input. So thats the kind of coach I want to be.

I dont know what to say when I have a crush on somebody. I kind of lose my words. I really try to start a conversation, and I cant. Its horrible.

Well, the memories were obviously - every match is important, every point counts, especially the last sort of 18, 20 years when the matches have been so tight.

I never had the high-paying job or the company car. It took me over a decade to pay off my student loans. I never had to worry about where to dock my yacht to reduce my taxes.

The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.

As Android, iPhone and other mobile platforms grow, we are moving away from the page-based Internet. The new Internet is app centric and often message-centric.

Whats really interesting and fun to explore is not just the falling in love and everything being great, but the obstacles to falling in love.

All critics should be assassinated.

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

I didn't have to work till I was three. But after that, I never stopped.

Here stands before you a Negro woman, raised in Harlem, who went on to become a tennis player . . . and finally wind up being a world champion, in fact, the first black woman champion of this world.