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warrrreagl 09-03-2009 04:36 AM

Daily Quote
 
My vision for this thread is to post a quote every day from a famous person on their birthday.

"We can lie in the language of dress or try to tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent."

Alison Lurie (September 3, 1926)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...images-986.jpg

ColonelSpecial 09-04-2009 05:04 AM

Okay it is a stretch but bear with me.

"It's morphin' time!"

Jason David Frank (September 4, 1973)

If it doesn't ring bells immediately, it is because he is the white ranger from The Power Rangers.

warrrreagl 09-04-2009 05:26 AM

AWESOME!

"Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread."

Richard Wright (September 4, 1908 - 1960)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...mages-1243.jpg

warrrreagl 09-05-2009 02:48 AM

"It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of 'culture.'"

John Cage (September 5, 1912 - 1992)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...images-927.jpg

hunnychile 09-05-2009 06:47 AM

My new favorite:

"Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting."
- Buckminster Fuller AKA Bucky.

What an interesting mind!

noodle 09-05-2009 07:11 AM

I love this thread. Quotes are one of my favorite things to explore. And make up. :)


Raquel Welch ~ “The mind can also be an erogenous zone”

warrrreagl 09-06-2009 07:42 AM

Noodle and hunnychile THANKS! I knew I could count on you.

"Between New York and LA, there's 200 million people that aren't hip, and they don't want to be hip."

Jeff Foxworthy (September 6, 1958)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...images-494.jpg

warrrreagl 09-07-2009 04:34 AM

"The past cannot be cured."

Elizabeth I (September 7, 1533 - 1603)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...mages-2448.jpg

uncle phil 09-07-2009 05:52 AM

Chrissy Hynde - September 7, 1951

Back on the Chain Gang

"Circumstance beyond our control,
Oh, the phone, the TV and the News of the World.
Got in my house like a pigeon from hell.
Oh, threw sand in our eyes descending like flies.
Oh, put us back on the train yeah,
Oh, Back on the chain gang."

hunnychile 09-07-2009 11:16 AM

"Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood."
- C.G. Jung

Willravel 09-07-2009 11:31 AM

"Rassemblons des faits pour nous donner des idées." Comte Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon

uncle phil 09-07-2009 03:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Willravel (Post 2700238)
"Je pense donc je suis." - Descartes

A revolution in thought.

and he was born on september 7, when?

uncle phil 09-08-2009 02:05 AM

Richard the Lionhearted - September 8, 1157

"Wine... a bucket of it!"

mixedmedia 09-08-2009 03:32 AM

Quote:

Country music is completely punk-rock. It's the original punk-rock.
Neko Case - September 8, 1970

warrrreagl 09-08-2009 04:25 AM

"Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end."

Sid Caesar (September 8, 1922)

*my personal hero...I talked to him on the phone once in 1984.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...d_Ceaser-1.jpg

hunnychile 09-08-2009 08:04 AM

"I'm gonna take my rats..." - Pink, Singer. B. 1979.

warrrreagl 09-09-2009 02:25 AM

"The Beatles did treat me as a member of the group. And that was a great honor, you know?"

Billy Preston (September 9, 1946 - 2006)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...mages-2362.jpg

uncle phil 09-09-2009 02:55 AM

Joe Theisman - September 9, 1949

"Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein."

mixedmedia 09-09-2009 02:59 AM

Julian "Cannonball" Adderley - September 9, 1928

Quote:

“A young tenor player was complaining to me that Coleman Hawkins made him nervous. Man, I told him Hawkins was supposed to make him nervous! Hawkins has been making other sax players nervous for forty years!”
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b2...732d9e01a1.jpg

warrrreagl 09-09-2009 08:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by uncle phil (Post 2700944)
Joe Theisman - September 9, 1949

"Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein."

HA!!!!

uncle phil 09-09-2009 01:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by uncle phil (Post 2700944)
Joe Theisman - September 9, 1949

"Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein."

Quote:

Originally Posted by warrrreagl (Post 2701069)
HA!!!!

i met him at the outback pro-am last spring in tampa; nice guy, down-to-earth, doesn't walk with a limp any more, and golfs a good game...

warrrreagl 09-09-2009 03:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by uncle phil (Post 2701167)
i met him at the outback pro-am last spring in tampa; nice guy, down-to-earth, doesn't walk with a limp any more, and golfs a good game...

He may not walk with a limp, but just the thought of that video of him breaking his ....urk.....urk.....urk.....

uncle phil 09-10-2009 02:38 AM

Isaac Funk - September 10, 1839

"Put that in your Funk & Wagnalls!"

(actually Dan Rowan said it, but you get my drift...)

mixedmedia 09-10-2009 03:07 AM

Stephen Jay Gould, evolutionary biologist - (September 10, 1941 – May 20, 2002)

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b2...thy_chapma.jpg

Quote:

Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival.

warrrreagl 09-10-2009 04:37 AM

"You don't even know
what a dream is;
how did it come?
It didn't come,
it was there."

Hilda Doolittle (September 10, 1886 - 1961)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...mages-1644.jpg

uncle phil 09-11-2009 02:33 AM

William Sidney Porter - September 11, 1862

"A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows."

mixedmedia 09-11-2009 02:43 AM

Jessica Mitford, author of The American Way of Death - September 11, 1917 - July 22, 1996

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b2...ia/dec1963.gif

Quote:

I have nothing against undertakers personally. It's just that I wouldn't want one to bury my sister.

warrrreagl 09-11-2009 04:36 AM

"I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us."

D. H. Lawrence (September 11, 1885 - 1930)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...mages-1422.jpg

uncle phil 09-12-2009 02:12 AM

H.L. Mencken - September 12, 1880

"An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup."

warrrreagl 09-12-2009 03:31 AM

"Life doesn't give you all the practice races you need."

Jesse Owens (September 12, 1913 - 1980)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...mages-1197.jpg

uncle phil 09-13-2009 02:37 AM

David Clayton-Thomas - September 13, 1941

"What goes up
must come down
spinning wheel
got to go around
talkin' 'bout your troubles
it's a cryin' sin
Ride a painted pony
let the spinning wheel spin..."

mixedmedia 09-13-2009 05:16 AM

Roald Dahl (September 13, 1916 - November 23, 1990)

Quote:

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b2...roald_dahl.jpg

Baraka_Guru 09-13-2009 05:42 AM

"I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect."

-Henry James (April 15, 1843 – February 28, 1916)

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u...Photograph.png

warrrreagl 09-13-2009 06:53 AM

"Is an artist much more than a beggar?"

Clara Wieck Schumann (September 13, 1819 - 1896)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...images-202.jpg

thirdsun 09-13-2009 09:12 AM

“Men don't get smarter when they grow older. They just lose their hair.”
Claudette Colbert
Sept 13, 1903 – July 30, 1996

http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/a...bert1934TN.jpg

inBOIL 09-13-2009 11:21 PM

Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin.
-Ivan Pavlov (Sep. 14, 1849 - Feb. 27, 1936)

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/m...904/pavlov.jpg

warrrreagl 09-14-2009 02:32 AM

"Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression."

Margaret Sanger (September 14, 1879 - 1966)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...mages-2008.jpg

uncle phil 09-14-2009 02:35 AM

Clayton Moore - September 14, 1914

“I am a fighter. I believe in that which is right, and the truth is, I have been the Lone Ranger for the past thirty years and I will not give up the fight. I love my public and I'll fight for you. I'll continue to make personal appearances for my thousands of fans.”

thirdsun 09-14-2009 03:37 AM

Walter Koenig - Sept 14, 1936

http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/a...avelChekov.jpg

"Star Trek: Who Mourns for Adonais? (#2.2)" (1967)
Apollo: I am Apollo!
Ensign Pavel Chekov: [sarcastically] And I am the Czar of all the Russias!
Capt. Kirk: Mister Chekov!
Ensign Pavel Chekov: I sorry, Captain. I never met a god before.
Capt. Kirk: And you haven't yet.

mixedmedia 09-15-2009 02:57 AM

Jean Renoir - (15 September 1894 – 12 February 1979)

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b2...n_Renoir_1.jpg

A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again.


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