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"Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain."
Thomas Otway
(03/03/1652 – 04/14/1685)
English writer 

Dr. Maurice Greene: "Well, Sir, but my anthem—what do you think of it?"
George Frederick Handel: "Oh your antum—ah—why I did tink it vanted air, Dr. Greene."
Greene: "Air, Sir?"
Handel: "Yes, air; and so I did hang it out of de vindow."
(03/14/1681 – 04/14/1759)
German composer 

"The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments."
Annie Sullivan
(04/14/1866 – 10/20/1936)
US educator (notably of Helen Keller) 

"I am willing to taste any drink once."
James Branch Cabell
(04/14/1879 – 05/05/1958)
US writer 

"America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair."
Arnold Joseph Toynbee
(04/14/1889 – 10/22/1975)
English historian 

"Poor Ingrid—speaks five languages and can't act in any of them."
Sir John Gielgud
(04/14/1904 – 05/21/2000)
English actor 

"Man is a greater miracle than any god he ever invented."
Rod Steiger
(04/14/1925 – 07/09/2002)
US actor 

"Comrade life,
let us
march faster,
March
faster through what's left
of the five-year plan."
Vladimir Mayakovsky
(07/07/1893 – 04/14/1930)
Russian poet 

"My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em."
Loretta Lynn
(04/14/1935 – )
US singer 

"All I want is for my case to be heard before an impractical decision-maker."
Pete Rose
(04/14/1941 – )
US baseball (would-be) Hall of Famer 

"Men don't want any responsibility, and neither do I."
Julie Christie
(04/14/1941 – )
India-born English actor 

"I like leaping around onstage, as long as it's done with class."
Ritchie Blackmore
(04/14/1945 – )
English guitarist (Deep Purple, Rainbow) 

"If you open that Pandora's Box, you never know what Trojan horses will jump out."
Ernest Bevin
(03/09/1881 – 04/14/1951)
English statesman 

"I think that's how Chicago got started. A bunch of people in New York said, 'Gee, I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it just isn't cold enough, let's go west.'"
Richard Jeni
(04/14/1957 – 03/10/2007)
US comic 

"Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one."
Rachel Carson
(05/27/1907 – 04/14/1964)
US writer, conservationist (Silent Spring) 

"I don't want to go away as an actor."
Anthony Michael Hall
(04/14/1968 – )
US actor (SNL) 

"I'm running around in front of a green screen screaming, Where's the monkey? Where's the monkey? "
Adrien Brody
(04/14/1973 – )
US actor , on acting in "King Kong" 

"Keep interested in others; keep interested in the wide and wonderful world. Then in a spiritual sense you will always be young."
Fredric March
(08/31/1897 – 04/14/1975)
US actor 

"I don't understand why James Bond has to be a man all the time. When Pierce Brosnan retires, why not one of us?"
Sarah Michelle Gellar
(04/14/1977 – )
US actor (married to Freddie Prinze, Jr.) 

"There are still parts of Wales where the only concession to gaiety is a striped shroud."
Gwyn Thomas
(07/06/1913 – 04/14/1981)
Welsh writer 

"It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. . . . Death does away with time."
Simone de Beauvoir
(01/09/1908 – 04/14/1986)
French writer 

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