Miguel de Cervantes
(09/29/1547 – 04/23/1616)
Spanish writer (never heard Kenny G.)
"I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time, and it has made a man of me."
Horatio Nelson
(09/29/1758 – 10/21/1805)
English naval commander
(09/29/1758 – 10/21/1805)
English naval commander
"I'll not listen to reason. Reason always means what someone else has got to say."
Elizabeth Gaskell
(09/29/1810 – 11/12/1865)
English writer
(09/29/1810 – 11/12/1865)
English writer
"Every peasant has a lawyer inside him, just as every lawyer, no matter how urbane he may be, carries a peasant within
himself."
Miguel de Unamuno Y Jugo
(09/29/1864 – 12/31/1936)
Spanish writer
(09/29/1864 – 12/31/1936)
Spanish writer
"Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man."
Martin Heidegger
(09/29/1889 – 05/26/1976)
German philosopher (LTR with Hannah Arendt)
(09/29/1889 – 05/26/1976)
German philosopher (LTR with Hannah Arendt)
"Every man has three characters—that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has."
Alphonse Karr
(11/24/1808 – 09/29/1890)
French writer
(11/24/1808 – 09/29/1890)
French writer
"If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist."
Enrico Fermi
(09/29/1901 – 11/29/1954)
Italian physicist
(09/29/1901 – 11/29/1954)
Italian physicist
"Actors like him are good but on the whole I do not enjoy actors who seek to commune with their armpits, so to speak."
Greer Garson
(09/29/1903 – 04/06/1996)
US actor , on Marlon Brando
(09/29/1903 – 04/06/1996)
US actor , on Marlon Brando
"These great turning-days of life cast no shadow
before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the
rudder, and the ship goes to heaven or hell."
Rebecca Harding Davis
(06/24/1831 – 09/29/1910)
US writer
(06/24/1831 – 09/29/1910)
US writer
"You don't know a ladder has splinters until you slide down it."
"Bum" Phillips
(09/29/1923 – )
US football coach
(09/29/1923 – )
US football coach
"She lies! No girl could get that much dirt on her knees in only eighteen years."
Margaret Talmadge
(??/??/1870 – 09/29/1933)
US actor (mother of Constance) , doubting the age, among other things, of a chorus girl
(??/??/1870 – 09/29/1933)
US actor (mother of Constance) , doubting the age, among other things, of a chorus girl
"If I'm going to hell, I'm going there playing the piano."
Jerry Lee Lewis
(09/29/1935 – )
US singer, pianist, Killer
(09/29/1935 – )
US singer, pianist, Killer
"Mel Brooks is sensual with me. He treats me like an uncle. A dirty uncle."
Madeline Kahn
(09/29/1942 – 12/03/1999)
US actor
(09/29/1942 – 12/03/1999)
US actor
"I must tell you that the supply of words on the world market is plentiful, but the demand is falling."
Lech Walesa
(09/29/1943 – )
Polish leader
(09/29/1943 – )
Polish leader
"In the early days all I hoped was to make a living
out of what I did best. But since there's no real market for
masturbation, I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities."
Les Claypool
(09/29/1963 – )
US bassist (Primus)
(09/29/1963 – )
US bassist (Primus)
"I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen."
Carson McCullers
(02/19/1917 – 09/29/1967)
US writer
(02/19/1917 – 09/29/1967)
US writer
"It is already possible to imagine a society in
which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will
have almost as much leisure as in earlier times was enjoyed by the
aristocracy. When one recalls how aristocracies in the past actually
behaved, the prospect is not cheerful."
W. H. Auden
(02/21/1907 – 09/29/1973)
English-American writer
(02/21/1907 – 09/29/1973)
English-American writer
"A lot of people my age are dead at the present time."
Casey Stengel
(07/30/1891 – 09/29/1975)
US baseball great
(07/30/1891 – 09/29/1975)
US baseball great
"If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder."
Pope John Paul I
(10/17/1912 – 09/29/1978)
Italian pope
(10/17/1912 – 09/29/1978)
Italian pope
"Atheists have an excellent longevity record because
we have no place to go after we die, so we take good care of ourselves
and our world while we are here."
Dr. Madalyn Murray O'Hair
(04/13/1919 – 09/29/1995)
US atheist
(04/13/1919 – 09/29/1995)
US atheist
"I wouldn't be caught dead marrying a woman old enough to be my wife."
Tony Curtis
(06/03/1925 – 09/29/2010)
"The Virgin Mary… We have a whole religion based on a woman who really stuck to her story."
Greg Giraldo(06/03/1925 – 09/29/2010)
(12/10/1965 – 09/29/2010)
US comic
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