"What reason, like the careful ant, draws laboriously together, the wind of accident sometimes collects in a moment."
Friedrich von Schiller
(11/10/1759 – 05/09/1805)
German writer
Friedrich von Schiller
(11/10/1759 – 05/09/1805)
German writer
"There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make."Sir James M. Barrie
(05/09/1860 – 06/19/1937)
Scottish writer (Peter Pan)
"When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt."Henry J. Kaiser
(05/09/1882 – 08/24/1967)
US industrialist
"Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges."Thomas W. Higginson
(12/22/1823 – 05/09/1911)
US writer, military, political activist
"A theory has only the alternative of being wrong. A model has a third possibility—it might be right but irrelevant."Manfred Eigen
(05/09/1927 – )
German physicist
"We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules."Alan Bennett
(05/09/1934 – )
English writer, actor (Beyond the Fringe)
"One hell of an outlay for a very small return, with most of them."Glenda Jackson
(05/09/1936 – )
English actor and parliament member , on men
"It's impossible to be more flat-chested than I am."Candice Bergen
(05/09/1946 – )
US actor (daughter of Edgar Bergen)
"A typical day in the life of a heavy metal musician consists of a round of golf and an AA meeting."Billy Joel
(05/09/1949 – )
US singer/songwriter (was married to Christie Brinkley)
"The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D."Nelson Algren
(03/28/1901 – 05/09/1981)
US writer (The Man with the Golden Arm)
"It is only the amateur [gardener] like myself who becomes obsessed and rejoices with a sadistic pleasure in weeds that are big and bad enough to pull, and at last, almost forgetting the flowers altogether, turns into a Reformer."
Dame Freya Madeline Stark
(01/31/1893 – 05/09/1993)
French-born English writer
Dame Freya Madeline Stark
(01/31/1893 – 05/09/1993)
French-born English writer
"The soundtrack, bless its sour heart, meanwhile thumps out THE BLUE DANUBE, to confer a little of the courtliness of bygone years on space."Penelope Gilliatt
(03/25/1932 – 05/09/1993)
English writer , on the film 2001: A Space Odyssey
"Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers."Alan King
(12/25/1927 – 05/09/2004)
US comic
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