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"Love that is not madness is not love."
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
(01/17/1600 – 05/25/1681)
Spanish writer

"The more he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons." Ralph Waldo Emerson
(05/25/1803 – 04/27/1882)
US writer

"It was a dark and stormy night..." Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
(05/25/1803 – 01/18/1873)
English writer

"Buy old masters. They bring in better prices than young mistresses." Lord William Maxwell Aitken Beaverbrook
(05/25/1879 – 06/09/1964)
Canadian statesman, publisher

"The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost." Bennett Cerf
(05/25/1898 – 08/12/1971)
US humorist

"What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible." Theodore Roethke
(05/25/1908 – 08/01/1963)
US writer

"The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet." Theodore Martin Hesburgh
(05/25/1917 – )
US priest

"I grew up without knowing anything about prejudice; my mother saw to that. If parents would keep prejudice and intolerance to themselves for one generation, we would have a different world." Jeanne Crain
(05/25/1925 – 12/14/2003)
US actor

"I'll play it first and tell you what it is later." Miles Davis
(05/25/1926 – 09/28/1991)
US jazz great (was married to Cicely Tyson)

"My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used to do. It can't." Beverly Sills
(05/25/1929 – 07/02/2007)
US opera singer

"I started all over again on page 1, circling the 262 pages like a vulture looking for live flesh to scavenge." John Gregory Dunne
(05/25/1932 – 12/30/2003)
US writer (was married to Joan Didion) -vultures don't eat live flesh -s

"Nobody knows a hit before it's a hit." Tom T. Hall
(05/25/1936 – )
US singer, songwriter

"So that was a very defining point of that relationship." Sir Ian McKellen
(05/25/1939 – )
English actor , on his mother's death when he was 12

"I hate that word (cute). It's the most awful word in the language." Karen Valentine
(05/25/1947 – )
US actor (from Sebastopol, CA)

"Everyone gets frustrated and aggressive, and I'd sooner take my aggression out on a guitar than on a person." Paul Weller
(05/25/1958 – )
English singer, songwriter, guitarist (the Jam) (also see Rick Buckler)

"Marriage can be viewed as the waiting room for death." Mike Myers
(05/25/1963 – )
Canadian comic, actor (SNL)

"Vibrators. I think they are great. They keep you out of stupid sex. I'd pitch them to anybody." Anne Heche
(05/25/1969 – )
US actor , one-time girlfriend of Ellen deGeneres

"I think there's such a thing as a performance gene. If it's in your DNA it needs to come out." Cillian Murphy
(05/25/1976 – )
Irish actor

"Give exceeding thanks for the mystery which remains a mystery still—the veil that hides you from the infinite, which makes it possible for you to believe in what you cannot see." Robert Nathan
(01/02/1894 – 05/25/1985)
US writer

"A man who wants time to read and write must let the grass grow long." Sloan Wilson
(05/08/1920 – 05/25/2003)
US writer (Man In The Grey Flannel Suit)