Thomas Gainsborough
(05/14/1727 – 08/02/1788)
English artist , to Sarah Siddons
"The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to."
Robert (Bertie) Charles Forbes
(05/14/1880 – 05/06/1954)
Scottish journalist
(05/14/1880 – 05/06/1954)
Scottish journalist
"If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees."
Hal Borland
(05/14/1900 – 02/22/1978)
US journalist
(05/14/1900 – 02/22/1978)
US journalist
"Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police."
August Strindberg
(01/22/1849 – 05/14/1912)
Swedish writer
(01/22/1849 – 05/14/1912)
Swedish writer
"Conceit is thinking you're great; egotism is knowing it."
Bobby Darin
(05/14/1936 – 12/20/1973)
US singer
(05/14/1936 – 12/20/1973)
US singer
"I don't want three million people digesting my private life over their cornflakes."
Francesca Annis
(05/14/1944 – )
English actor
(05/14/1944 – )
English actor
"I thought it was too wacky for the general public."
George Lucas
(05/14/1944 – )
US director (was engaged to Linda Ronstadt) , original opinion of Star Wars' chances for success
(05/14/1944 – )
US director (was engaged to Linda Ronstadt) , original opinion of Star Wars' chances for success
"Personally, being somewhat envious of Richard's
songwriting and guitar playing, it's somewhat satisfying he's not yet
achieved household-name status. It serves him right for being so good."
David Byrne
(05/14/1952 – )
Scottish-born US singer and guitarist , on Richard Thompson
(05/14/1952 – )
Scottish-born US singer and guitarist , on Richard Thompson
"Americans have bought lock, stock, and barrel the Jeremy Irons-Kenneth Branagh England. And it's fake. It's an absolute con. Merchant Ivory? Bollocks."
Tim Roth
(05/14/1961 – )
English actor
(05/14/1961 – )
English actor
"Addiction is a symptom of not growing up. I know
people think it's a disease... If you have a brain tumor, if you have
cancer, that's a disease. To say that an addiction is a disease is not
fair to the real diseases of the world."
C. C. DeVille
(05/14/1962 – )
US guitarist (Poison)
(05/14/1962 – )
US guitarist (Poison)
"But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression
came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for
stopping it. Everyone tried to get out of its way."
Frances Perkins
(04/10/1880 – 05/14/1965)
US educator
(04/10/1880 – 05/14/1965)
US educator
"Your world is as big as you make it
I know, for I used to abide
In the narrowest nest in a corner
My wings pressing close to my side" Georgia Douglas Johnson
(09/10/1880 – 05/14/1966)
US writer
I know, for I used to abide
In the narrowest nest in a corner
My wings pressing close to my side" Georgia Douglas Johnson
(09/10/1880 – 05/14/1966)
US writer
"If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously!"
Cate Blanchett
(05/14/1969 – )
Australian actor
(05/14/1969 – )
Australian actor
"To survive there, you need the ambition of a
Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor, and the
physical stamina of a cow pony."
Billie Burke
(08/07/1885 – 05/14/1970)
US actor , on Hollywood
(08/07/1885 – 05/14/1970)
US actor , on Hollywood
"Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks."
Jean Rhys
(08/24/1894 – 05/14/1979)
Welsh-Dominican writer
(08/24/1894 – 05/14/1979)
Welsh-Dominican writer
"I never really thought of myself as a sex goddess; I felt I was more a comedian who could dance"
Rita Hayworth
(10/17/1918 – 05/14/1987)
US movie star (was married to Orson Welles)
(10/17/1918 – 05/14/1987)
US movie star (was married to Orson Welles)
(01/13/1919 – 05/14/2003)
US actor
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