"A freakish homunculus germinated outside lawful procreation."
Henry Arthur Jones
(09/19/1851 – 01/07/1929)
English writer , on George Bernard Shaw
(09/19/1851 – 01/07/1929)
English writer , on George Bernard Shaw
"I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came."
James A. Garfield(11/19/1831 – 09/19/1881)
US President (20) (see all US Presidents)
"There is no necessary connection between the desire
to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead
somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led."
Bergen Evans
(09/19/1904 – 02/04/1978)
US educator
(09/19/1904 – 02/04/1978)
US educator
"Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind."
William Golding(09/19/1911 – 06/19/1993)
English writer
"Never console yourself into believing that the
terror has passed, for it looms as large and evil today as it did in the
despicable era of Bedlam."
Frances Farmer(09/19/1913 – 08/01/1970)
US actor
"It was inescapable. I'd just about land something
substantial, something I like or a good career move. Then some dinosaur
would rear up and say, 'But the audience will think of him as Batman.'
It was formidable. It was there like a brick wall."
Adam West(09/19/1928 – )
US actor , on being typecast as "Batman"
"(George Bush) has the look about him of someone who might sit up and yip for a Dog Yummie."
Mike Royko(09/19/1932 – 04/29/1997)
US journalist
"I could find the cure for cancer, but what people will always remember me for is writing the theme for The Love Boat."
Paul Williams(09/19/1940 – )
US songwriter
"Probably the biggest bringdown in my life was being
in a pop group and finding out just how much it was like everything we
were supposed to be against."
"Mama" Cass Elliot(09/19/1943 – 07/29/1974)
US singer (Mamas and Papas)
"Paris Hilton,
that's very interesting what she did. I've never done that. I haven't
really sort of ever got into that. As time passes, maybe I should record
it and put it in a vault so that when I get a little old and don't have
the energy I can remember how life used to be."
Jeremy Irons(09/19/1948 – )
English actor
"Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He
taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not
involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain
persons."
Will Cuppy
(08/23/1884 – 09/19/1949)
US writer
(08/23/1884 – 09/19/1949)
US writer
"I have learned from experience that, in the bluff
and counterbluff of world politics, to draw a hostile war lord as a
horrible monster is to play his game. What he doesn't like is being
shown as a silly ass."
Sir David Low
(04/07/1891 – 09/19/1963)
English cartoonist
(04/07/1891 – 09/19/1963)
English cartoonist
"Sometimes I wish I had a terrible childhood, so that at least I´d have an excuse."
Jimmy Fallon(09/19/1974 – )
US comic, actor (SNL)
"In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision."
Italo Calvino(10/15/1923 – 09/19/1985)
Italian writer
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