Born/Died Today with Quotes. BornToday.com

"Besides learning to see, there is another art to be learned—not to see what is not."
Maria Mitchell
(08/01/1818 – 06/28/1889)
US astronomer

"Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian." Herman Melville
(08/01/1819 – 09/28/1891)
US writer

"It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them." Dame Rose Macaulay
(08/01/1881 – 10/30/1958)
English writer

"The circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set." Benjamin E. Mays
(08/01/1895 – 03/28/1984)
US educator

"No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man." Israel Zangwill
(02/14/1864 – 08/01/1926)
English writer

"I'm actually a thin, serious person, but I play fat and funny, but only for the movies." Dom DeLuise
(08/01/1933 – 05/04/2009)
US comic, actor

"It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion." Yves Saint-Laurent
(08/01/1936 – 06/01/2008)
French Algerian designer

"Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil." Jerry Garcia
(08/01/1942 – 08/09/1995
US guitarist, singer (Grateful Dead) (also see Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann, Mickey Hart)

"We say it's Lesbian Seven. We say it's a level of consciousness when you get to level seven in meditation. We say it's lubrication, a love jelly called L7. There's actually a guitar amp called L7 . . . there's also a panty size L7—large seven—very apropos for this band." Suzi Gardner
(08/01/1960 – )
US musician (L7) Photo from L7 official web site

"Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't." Theodore Roethke
(05/25/1908 – 08/01/1963)
US writer

"Sex. What Fun." Sam Mendes
(08/01/1965 – )
English director (married to Kate Winslet) , on filmmaking

"I went to Sunday school and liked the stories—about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful, but I didn't believe them. It was too vague." Frances Farmer
(09/19/1913 – 08/01/1970)
US actor

"Television is democracy at its ugliest." Paddy Chayefsky
(01/29/1923 – 08/01/1981)
US writer

"Damn sympathy! I don't care whether they love me or not. I don't care whether I am beautiful or not. I want a chance to act." Pola Negri
(12/31/1894 – 08/01/1987)
Polish actor