George Granville
(03/09/1666 – 01/29/1735)
English politico
"The dead of midnight is the noon of thought."
Anna Laetitia Barbauld
(06/20/1743 – 03/09/1825)
English writer
(06/20/1743 – 03/09/1825)
English writer
"If you let that sort of thing go on, your bread and butter will be cut right out from under your feet."
Ernest Bevin
(03/09/1881 – 04/14/1951)
English statesman
(03/09/1881 – 04/14/1951)
English statesman
"Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is
no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to
hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong."
Vita Sackville-West
(03/09/1892 – 06/02/1962)
English writer (was married to Harold Nicolson, mother of Nigel Nicolson)
(03/09/1892 – 06/02/1962)
English writer (was married to Harold Nicolson, mother of Nigel Nicolson)
"Any work of architecture that does not express serenity is a mistake."
Luis Barragan
(03/09/1902 – 11/22/1988)
Mexican architect
(03/09/1902 – 11/22/1988)
Mexican architect
"To me, apples are fruit—to Cezanne they were mountains!"
David Smith
(03/09/1906 – 05/23/1965)
US scul
(03/09/1906 – 05/23/1965)
US scul
ptor
"Slavery tolerates no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no freedom of opinion."
Hinton Helper
(12/27/1829 – 03/09/1909)
US writer
(12/27/1829 – 03/09/1909)
US writer
"Those big-shot writers could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar."
Mickey Spillane
(03/09/1918 – 07/17/2006)
US writer
(03/09/1918 – 07/17/2006)
US writer
Counter person at MacDonald's: "What do you want to drink?"
James Buckley: "What's your house chablis?"
(03/09/1923 – )
US senate candidate
James Buckley: "What's your house chablis?"
(03/09/1923 – )
US senate candidate
"I'm interested in music, not in my image. If
someone plays something fantastic, that I could never have thought of,
it makes me happy to know it exists."
Ornette Coleman
(03/09/1930 – )
US musician
(03/09/1930 – )
US musician
"The only reason we wore sunglasses onstage was because we couldn't stand the sight of the audience."
John Cale
(03/09/1942 – )
Welsh singer, songwriter (Velvet Underground)
(03/09/1942 – )
Welsh singer, songwriter (Velvet Underground)
"Nobody could ever hear us anyway. There was always too much noise."
Mark Lindsay
(03/09/1942 – )
US singer (Raiders)
(03/09/1942 – )
US singer (Raiders)
"I like the moment when I break a man's ego."
Bobby Fischer
(03/09/1943 – 01/17/2008)
US-Icelandic chess grand master
(03/09/1943 – 01/17/2008)
US-Icelandic chess grand master
"You can tell a good putt by the noise it makes."
Bobby Locke
(11/20/1917 – 03/09/1987)
S. African golfe
(11/20/1917 – 03/09/1987)
S. African golfe
r
"It is now well known, however, that men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married."
C. Northcote Parkinson
(07/30/1909 – 03/09/1993)
English writer
(07/30/1909 – 03/09/1993)
English writer
"Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually
clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable
spiritual qualities."
Charles Bukowski
(08/16/1920 – 03/09/1994)
US writer
(08/16/1920 – 03/09/1994)
US writer
"I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury."
George Burns
(01/20/1896 – 03/09/1996)
US comic actor
(01/20/1896 – 03/09/1996)
US comic actor
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