Thursday, July 31, 2014

Born/Died Today with Quotes- BornToday.com

"Let them impeach, and be damned!"
Andrew Johnson
(12/29/1808 – 07/31/1875)
US President (17), VP (16) (see all US Presidents, VPs)


Jean Dubuffet "The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity." Jean Dubuffet
(07/31/1901 – 05/12/1985)
French artist

Milton Friedman "Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned." Milton Friedman
(07/31/1912 – 11/16/2006)
US economist

"What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?" Irv Kupcinet
(07/31/1912 – 11/10/2003)
US writer

Curt Gowdy "If there's a pileup, they'll have to give some of the players artificial insemination." Curt Gowdy
(07/31/1919 – 02/20/2006)
US sports announcer , announcing for the AFL all-star game on a flooded field

Whitney M. Young "It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared." Whitney M. Young, Jr.
(07/31/1921 – 03/11/1971)
US writer

Lynne Reid Banks "And tell me, does your husband have big balls?" Lynne Reid Banks
(07/31/1929 – )
English writer , to wife of Swedish ambassador to England, referring to social events

Sherry Lansing "I think we've blown up everything we can blow up." Sherry Lansing
(07/31/1944 – )
US film director (married to William Friedkin)

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them." Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
(06/29/1900 – 07/31/1944)
French writer, adventurer

Joanne Rowling "Well, it will be a papery object with pages inside." J. K. Rowling
(07/31/1965 – )
English writer , on the next Harry Potter book

"If there is a technological advance without a social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery." Michael Harrington
(02/24/1928 – 07/31/1989)
US writer

Poul William Anderson "We live with our archetypes, but can we live in them?" Poul Anderson
(11/25/1932 – 07/31/2001)
US writer

"The reason kids like rock 'n roll is their parents don't." Mitch Miller
(07/04/1911 – 07/31/2010)
US bandleader, A&R director , on rock'n'roll

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