Bernard le Bouyer de Fontenelle
(02/11/1657 – 01/09/1757)
French writer
"Laws are generally found to be nets of such a
texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the
middle-sized are alone entangled in."
William Shenstone
(11/18/1714 – 02/11/1763)
Scottish writer
(11/18/1714 – 02/11/1763)
Scottish writer
"There ain't no rules around here! We're trying to accomplish something!"
Thomas Alva Edison(02/11/1847 – 10/18/1931)
US scientist/inventor
"I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that
one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line when someone
takes the next step and concludes that two idiots are better than one
genius."
Leo Szilard(02/11/1898 – 05/30/1964)
Hungarian-US scientist
"All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years."
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
(02/11/1909 – 02/05/1993)
Polish-American director (brother of Herman J. Mankiewicz; died near his birthday)
(02/11/1909 – 02/05/1993)
Polish-American director (brother of Herman J. Mankiewicz; died near his birthday)
"If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament."
Florynce Kennedy
(02/11/1916 – 12/21/2000)
US lawyer, activist
(02/11/1916 – 12/21/2000)
US lawyer, activist
"Marriage is too interesting an experiment to be tried only once."
Eva Gabor(02/11/1921 – 07/04/1995)
Hungarian actor (sister of Zsa Zsa)
"Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy, I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy."
Lloyd Bentsen
(02/11/1921 – 05/23/2006)
US Representative (TX) , on Dan Quayle's comparing himself to JFK
(02/11/1921 – 05/23/2006)
US Representative (TX) , on Dan Quayle's comparing himself to JFK
"Doing nothing is very hard to do ... you never know when you're finished."
Leslie Nielsen(02/11/1926 – )
Canadian actor
"In my opinion men are getting sick of looking at cowboys, indians, and detectives. Look, don't you think I have more to offer?"
Tina Louise(02/11/1934 – )
US actor
"My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave."
Burt Reynolds(02/11/1936 – )
US actor
"We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves."
John Buchan
(08/26/1875 – 02/11/1940)
Scottish writer
(08/26/1875 – 02/11/1940)
Scottish writer
"So what! Forty is the new 30! It doesn't mean a damn thing."
Sheryl Crow(02/11/1962 – )
US singer (was engaged to, and disengaged from, Lance Armstrong) , on turning 40
"There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them."
Sylvia Plath(10/27/1932 – 02/11/1963)
US writer (was married to Ted Hughes)
"When somebody follows you 20 blocks to the pharmacy, where they watch you buy toilet paper, you know your life has changed."
Jennifer Aniston(02/11/1969 – )
US actor (was married to Brad Pitt)
"We all want to play romantic figures. But because I lost my hair I was stuck playing butchers and crooks."
Lee J. Cobb(12/08/1911 – 02/11/1976)
US actor
"The real wealth of a planet is in its landscape."
Frank Herbert(10/08/1920 – 02/11/1986)
US writer
"From the moment I liberated Brigitte, the moment I showed her how to be truly herself, our marriage was all downhill."
Roger Vadim(01/26/1928 – 02/11/2000)
French director (was married to Brigitte Bardot; also see Jane Fonda)
"From the beginning, the camera and I were great friends. It loves me, and I love it."
Whitney Houston(08/09/1963 – 02/11/2012)
US singer
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