uncle phil

Norm Crosby - September 15, 1927

"When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty."

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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

thirdsun

Roy Acuff - (September 15, 1903 – November 23, 1992)

"Don't be a blueprint. Be an original."

warrrreagl

"The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him."

Robert Benchley (September 15, 1889 - 1945)

__________________
Living is easy with eyes closed.

uncle phil

Louis XIV - September 16, 1638

“It is legal because I wish it.”

__________________
"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

thirdsun

Allen Funt (September 16, 1914 – September 5, 1999) - "When people are smiling they are most receptive to almost anything you want to teach them."

warrrreagl

"I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that."

Lauren Bacall (September 16, 1924)

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Living is easy with eyes closed.

Strange Famous

"I accept responsibility for U-boat warfare from 1933 onward, and of the entire navy from 1943 on, but to make me responsible for what happened to Jews in Germany, or Russian soldiers on the east front - it is so ridiculous all I can do is laugh."

Karl Donitz

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"Do not tell lies, and do not do what you hate,
for all things are plain in the sight of Heaven. For nothing
hidden will not become manifest, and nothing covered will remain
without being uncovered."

The Gospel of Thomas

uncle phil

Ken Kesey - September 17, 1935

"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph."

__________________
"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

thirdsun

Hank Williams (September 17, 1923 – January 1, 1953) - “If a song can't be written in 20 minutes, it ain't worth writing.”

warrrreagl

“If they give you lined paper, write the other way.”

William Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883 - 1963)

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Living is easy with eyes closed.

thirdsun

Roddy McDowall (17 September 1928 – 3 October 1998) - "I enjoyed being in movies when I was a boy. As a child you're not acting - you believe."

uncle phil

Greta Garbo - September 18, 1905

"I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference."

__________________
"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
-----------------------------------------
"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
-----------------------------------------
never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

warrrreagl

"In the first place, good people are rarely suspicious; they cannot imagine others doing the things they themselves are incapable of doing."

William March (September 18, 1893 - 1954)



...native son of Alabama...

__________________
Living is easy with eyes closed.

thirdsun

"Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language."

Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 – 13 December 1784), aka Dr. Johnson

warrrreagl

"If you really think you're right, you should tell it."

Cass Elliot (September 19, 1941 - 1974)

__________________
Living is easy with eyes closed.

uncle phil

Adam West - September 19, 1928

“It was inescapable. I'd just about land something substantial, something I like or a good career move. Then some dinosaur would rear up and say, 'But the audience will think of him as Batman.' It was formidable. It was there like a brick wall.”

__________________
"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
-----------------------------------------
"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
-----------------------------------------
never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

thirdsun

"It may be -- I hope it is -- redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all its beauty, vastness, majesty, is only part of a whole which is quite unimaginable." A Moving Target

William Golding (19 September 1911 – 19 June 1993)

uncle phil

Upton Sinclair - September 20, 1878

"I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach."

__________________
"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
-----------------------------------------
"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
-----------------------------------------
never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

warrrreagl

"I may be smelly and I may be old,
Rough in my pebbles, reedy in my pools,
But where my fish float by I bless their swimming,
And I like the people to bathe in me especially women."

Stevie Smith (September 20, 1902 - 1971)

__________________
Living is easy with eyes closed.

thirdsun

“Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings.”
Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton - (September 20, 1885 – July 10, 1941)

uncle phil

Ethan Coen - September 21, 1958

"We tend to do period stuff because it helps make it one step removed from boring everyday reality."

__________________
"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
-----------------------------------------
"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
-----------------------------------------
never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

thirdsun

Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) - "Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit."

mixedmedia

Leonard Cohen, born September 21, 1934

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce

warrrreagl

"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed."

Stephen King (September 21, 1947)

__________________
Living is easy with eyes closed.

uncle phil

Paul Muni - September 22, 1895

“I don't want to be a star. If you have to label me anything, I'm an actor - I guess. A journeyman actor. I think 'star' is what you call actors who can't act.”

__________________
"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
-----------------------------------------
"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
-----------------------------------------
never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

jewels

Joan Jett - September 22, 1960

“Girls have got balls. They're just a little higher up that's all.”

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We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.
Mark Twain

thirdsun

Tommy Lasorda (September 22, 1927) - "Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure."

warrrreagl

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."

Theodore Edward Hook (September 22, 1788 - 1841)

__________________
Living is easy with eyes closed.

uncle phil

Caesar Augustus - September 23, 63 B.C.

“I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.”

__________________
"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
-----------------------------------------
"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
-----------------------------------------
never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

thirdsun

Mickey Rooney - September 23, 1920

"You always pass failure on your way to success."

warrrreagl

"You can play music with a shoestring if you're sincere."

John Coltrane (September 23, 1926 - 1967)

__________________
Living is easy with eyes closed.

mixedmedia

Bruce Springsteen (born September 23, 1949)



The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

__________________
Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce

uncle phil

John Marshall - September 24, 1755

“Indeed, in a free government almost all other rights would become worthless if the government possessed power over the private fortune of every citizen.”

__________________
"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
-----------------------------------------
"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
-----------------------------------------
never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

mixedmedia

F. Scott Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940)



Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

__________________
Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce

thirdsun

"Ambition never rests, not even for a man who has left his footsteps on the moon."
John W. Young (born September 24, 1930)



Astronaut John Young is the only person to have piloted in space four different classes of spacecraft: Gemini spacecraft, Apollo Command/Service Module, Apollo Lunar Module, and Space Shuttle. Young also drove the Lunar Roving Vehicle on the moon's surface. He was the first person to orbit the moon alone (during the Apollo 10 mission), and was the commander of the first Space Shuttle mission in April 1981.

thirdsun

"I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it."

William Faulkner (September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962)

uncle phil

William Faulkner - September 25, 1897

“Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”

__________________
"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
-----------------------------------------
"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
-----------------------------------------
never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

warrrreagl

"Never explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it."

Shel Silverstein (September 25, 1930 - 1999)

__________________
Living is easy with eyes closed.

uncle phil

T.S. Eliot - September 26, 1888

“You are the music while the music lasts.”

__________________
"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
-----------------------------------------
"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
-----------------------------------------
never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

thirdsun

“Life is a lot like jazz...it's best when you improvise.”

George Gershwin (September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937)