"I am a firm believer in if you can't get it the old fashioned way, you don't need it."

Bo Jackson (November 30, 1962)

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Stansfield Turner - December 1, 1923

“We aren't thinking out of the box enough. We're thinking in terms of our Western Judeo-Christian culture,”

Carl Sagan - ""Science is still one of my chief joys. The popularization of science that Isaac Asimov did so well-the communication not just of the findings but of the methods of science-seems to me as natural as breathing. After all, when you're in love, you want to tell the world. The idea that scientists shouldn't talk about their science to the public seems to me bizarre."

he was born on november 9, 1934...



Alexander M. Haig - December 2, 1924

“As of now, I am in control here in the White House.”

Joseph Conrad - December 3, 1857

“Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.”

Wassily Kandinsky - December 4, 1866

“Everything starts from a dot.”

George Armstrong Custer - December 5, 1839

“There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.”

Alfred Joyce Kilmer - December 6, 1886

“It is stern work, it is perilous work to thrust your hand in the sun And pull out a spark of immortal flame to warm the hearts of men.”

Willa Cather - December 7, 1873

"The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young."

Horace - December 8, 65 B.C

“No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation”

Emmett Kelly - December 9, 1898

“'Weary Willie' is very real to me. He is a man who has given up. The boat has gone and left him. The cards are stacked against him. He's content to make out with what he's got. He knows he'll go no further.”

William Plomer December 10, 1903

“On a sofa upholstered in panther skin
Mona did researches in original sin.”

Fiorello La Guardia - December 11, 1882

“Politics is very much like taxes - everybody is against them, or everybody is for them as long as they don't apply to him.”

Edvard Munch - December 12, 1863

“Your face encompasses the beauty of the whole earth. Your lips, as red as ripening fruit, gently part as if in pain. It is the smile of a corpse. Now the hand of death touches life. The chain is forged that links the thousand families that are dead to the thousand generations to come.”

Ted Nugent - December 13, 1948

“Political Correctness is about turning a blind eye to painful reality because your comfortable feelings are more important to you than saving lives and providing quality of life to people who work their ass off to be productive and are a benefit to this great American Dream.”

Nostradamus - December 14, 1503

“After there is great trouble among mankind, a greater one is prepared. The great mover of the universe will renew time, rain, blood, thirst, famine, steel weapons and disease. In the heavens, a fire seen.”

Nero - December 15, 37

To Rome said Nero: "If to smoke you turn I shall not cease to fiddle while you burn." To Nero Rome replied: "Pray do your worst..."

Catherine of Aragon - December 16, 1485

"My tribulations are so great, my life so disturbed by the plans daily invented to further the king's wicked intention, the surprises which the king gives me, with certain persons of his council, are so mortal, and my treatment is what God knows, that it is enough to shorten ten lives, much more mine."

Humphry Daby - December 17, 1778

“Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.”

Hector Hugh Munro - December 18, 1870

“The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.”

Ralph Richardson - December 19, 1902

“The most precious things in speech are pauses.”

Harvey Firestone - December 20, 1868

“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.”

Joseph Dzhugashvili - December 21, 1879

“A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.”

Diane Sawyer - December 22, 1945

“I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.”

Connie Mack - December 23, 1862

“Humanity is the keystone that holds nations and men together. When that collapses, the whole structure crumbles. This is as true of baseball teams as any other pursuit in life.”

Saint Ignatius (Loyola) - December 24, 1491

“The enemy is like a woman, weak in face of opposition, but correspondingly strong when not opposed. In a quarrel with a man, it is natural for a woman to lose heart and run away when he faces up to her; on the other hand, if the man begins to be afraid and to give ground, her rage, vindictiveness and fury overflow and know no limit.”

Humphrey Bogart - December 25, 1899

“Here's looking at you,kid.”

Charles Babbage - December 26, 1792

“Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.”

Johannes Kepler - December 27, 1571

“I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.”

Arthur Stanley Eddington - December 28, 1882

“Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't.”

Marquise de Pompadour - December 29, 1721

"Après nous, le déluge."

Jack Lord - December 30, 1930

"Book 'im, Dano..."

Henri Matisse - December 31, 1869

“Creativity takes courage.”

"Country Joe" McDonald - January 1, 1942

"Gimme an 'F...'"

Sally Rand - January 2, 1904

“What in heaven's name is strange about a grandmother dancing nude? I'll bet lots of grandmothers do it.”

Anna Pavlova - January 3, 1885

"Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.”

Louis Braille - January 4, 1809

"Live without seeing, but be what you are."

George Reeves - January 5, 1914

“Knock the 't' off the 'can't'...”

Joan of Arc - January 6, 1412

"Hold the cross high so I may see it through the flames!”

Butterfly McQueen - January 7, 1911

“Now I am happy I did 'Gone With the Wind.' I wasn't when I was 28, but it's part of black history. You have no idea how hard it is for black actors, but things change, things blossom in time.”