Daily Birthday/Deathday Quote

That gave me an amused chuckle. I correctly guessed before looking online just now that the second date was when he was struck by a hit and run driver. Living in a parallel universe where he was actually killed that day would suck.

 

Thanks for noticing that, Speed Gibson. In The Dark Tower series, there is a plot line in a parallel world that deals with the repercussions of his death on June 19 from that accident. A Dark Tower Junkie like myself always considers that Stephen King is already dead in another universe.

 

"Hell is other people."

Jean-Paul Sartre (June 21, 1905 - 1980)



"Poor people have the blues because they're poor and hungry. Rich people can't sleep at night because they're trying to hold on to their money and everything they have."

John Lee Hooker (1915 - June 21, 2001)

 

"Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought himself to death."

Gilbert Highet (June 22, 1906 - 1978)



"Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful."

Ann Landers (1918 - June 22, 2002)

 

"Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck."

Joss Whedon (June 23, 1964)



"Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience."

(1914 - June 23, 1995)

 

Jonas Salk?

 

HAHA! You're right. Sorry about that.
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"Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards."

Sir Fred Hoyle (June 24, 1915 - 2001)



"I am a member of the rabble in good standing."

Westbrook Pegler (1894 - June 24, 1969)

 

"A man from hell is not afraid of hot ashes."

Dorothy Gilman (June 25, 1923 - 2012)



"I'm just like anyone. I cut and I bleed. And I embarrass easily."

Michael Jackson (1958 - June 25, 2009)

 

"I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours."

Bernard Berenson (June 26, 1865 - 1959)



"Only two classes of books are of universal appeal - the very best and the very worst."

Ford Madox Ford (1873 - June 26, 1939)

 

"It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision."

Helen Keller (June 27, 1880 - 1968)




"A lot of people would rather tour sewers than visit their cousins."

Jane Howard (1935 - June 27, 1996)

 

"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die."
Mel Brooks (June 28, 1926)



"The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices . . . . And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone."

Rod Serling (1924 - June 28, 1975)

 

"We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are."

James Harvey Robinson (June 29, 1863 - 1936)



"No matter how great a man is, the size of his funeral usually depends on the weather."

Rosemary Clooney (1923 - June 29, 2002)

 

"Everybody's got plans...until they get hit."

Mike Tyson (June 30, 1966)



"Golf is more fun than walking naked in a strange place, but not much."

Buddy Hackett (1924 - June 30, 2003)

 

"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home."

Twyla Tharp (July 1, 1941)



"To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose."

Louis-Ferdinand Celine (1894 - July 1, 1961)

 

"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."

Hermann Hesse (July 2, 1887 - 1962)



"Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done."

Amelia Earhart (1898 - July 2, 1937)

 

"My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers."

Tom Stoppard (July 3, 1937)




"I am in the prime of my senility."

Joel Chandler Harris (1848 - July 3, 1908)

 

"We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death."

Nathaniel Hawthorne (July 4, 1804 - 1864)



"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."

Thomas Jefferson (1743 - July 4, 1826)

 

the pursuit of Happiness has gotten me into trouble more than once

 

Most of us can handle our happiness, but it has always been the Happiness that will do you in every time.

 

"One can never know at what point their own awareness of something important might be enough to tip the scales for everybody."

Lena Georgas (July 5, 1979)



"The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me."

Howard Nemerov (1920 - July 5, 1991)