William Hazlitt
(04/10/1778 – 09/18/1830)
English writer
"One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune."
General Lew Wallace(04/10/1827 – 02/15/1905)
US military
"There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no
inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by
vice that virtue is abhorrent to them, and so inveterably dishonest that
theft is to them a master passion."
William Booth(04/10/1829 – 08/20/1912)
English religious leader, Salvation Army founder
"Put it before them briefly so they will read it,
clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember
it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light."
Joseph Pulitzer(04/10/1847 – 10/29/1911)
Hungarian journalist, prize
"Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees."
Frances Perkins(04/10/1880 – 05/14/1965)
US educator
"No woman has ever so comforted the distressed—or so distressed the comfortable."
Clare Boothe Luce(04/10/1903 – 10/09/1987)
US journalist (was married to Henry R. Luce) , on Eleanor Roosevelt
"A calcined, scalped, rasped, scraped, flayed,
broiled, powdered, leprous, blotched, mangy, grimy, parboiled country
without trees, water, grass, fields ... it is infinitely liker hell than
earth, and one looks for tails among the people."
Algernon Charles Swinburne(04/05/1837 – 04/10/1909)
English writer (died near his birthday) , describing part of France
"We called him 'mumbles.' He didn't speak his words
very loud. The sound man was always saying, 'Kid, speak up!' But he
mumbled his way to a fortune."
Sheb Wooley(04/10/1921 – 09/16/2003)
US actor, singer, songwriter , on Clint Eastwood
"Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk."
Dolores Huerta(04/10/1930 – )
US labor activist
"You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?"
Kahlil Gibran(01/06/1883 – 04/10/1931)
Lebanese philosopher poet
"Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live."
Henry van Dyke(11/10/1852 – 04/10/1933)
US writer, Presbyterian
"The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer."
John Madden(04/10/1936 – )
US football coach, commentator, commercial hack
"When you were quite a little boy, somebody ought to have said "hush" just once."
Mrs. Patrick Campbell(02/09/1865 – 04/10/1940)
English actor , to George Bernard Shaw
"It doesn't work if the bad guys kill his mother's uncle's friend's neighbor's pet dog. You've got to make the stakes high."
Steven Seagal(04/10/1951 – )
US "actor" , on why the hero's wife or girlfriend must get killed in every one of his stupid movies
"It is a curious thing that every creed promises a
paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized
taste."
Evelyn Waugh(10/18/1903 – 04/10/1966)
English writer
"I try to keep away from being bigheaded. That's
what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being
commercial, and then they stink for the rest of their life. But there
are several respected adult actors who were child actors that started
very young. I'm going to try and model myself after Kurt Russell and Jodie Foster. Just keep learning from the role and not just go for the money."
Haley Joel Osment(04/10/1988 – )
US actor
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