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)

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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.

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)

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"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)

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My new favorite:

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

What an interesting mind!

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”

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)

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"The past cannot be cured."

Elizabeth I (September 7, 1533 - 1603)

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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."

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

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

and he was born on september 7, when?

Richard the Lionhearted - September 8, 1157

"Wine... a bucket of it!"

Neko Case - September 8, 1970

"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.

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

"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)

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Joe Theisman - September 9, 1949

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

Julian "Cannonball" Adderley - September 9, 1928

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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...

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

Isaac Funk - September 10, 1839

"Put that in your Funk & Wagnalls!"

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

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

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"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)

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William Sidney Porter - September 11, 1862

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

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

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"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)

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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."

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

Jesse Owens (September 12, 1913 - 1980)

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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..."

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

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

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

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"Is an artist much more than a beggar?"

Clara Wieck Schumann (September 13, 1819 - 1896)

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

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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)

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"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)

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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.”

Walter Koenig - Sept 14, 1936

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"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.

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

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

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."

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

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

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

Robert Benchley (September 15, 1889 - 1945)

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Louis XIV - September 16, 1638

“It is legal because I wish it.”

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

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"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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"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

Ken Kesey - September 17, 1935

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

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

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

William Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883 - 1963)

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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."

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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."

"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)

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...native son of Alabama...

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

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

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

Cass Elliot (September 19, 1941 - 1974)

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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.”

"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)

Upton Sinclair - September 20, 1878

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

"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)

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

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Ethan Coen - September 21, 1958

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

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."

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

Stephen King (September 21, 1947)

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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.”

Joan Jett - September 22, 1960

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

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."

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

Theodore Edward Hook (September 22, 1788 - 1841)

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Caesar Augustus - September 23, 63 B.C.

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

Mickey Rooney - September 23, 1920

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

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

John Coltrane (September 23, 1926 - 1967)

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Bruce Springsteen (born September 23, 1949)

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

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.”

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

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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.

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

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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.

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"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)

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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.”

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

Shel Silverstein (September 25, 1930 - 1999)

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T.S. Eliot - September 26, 1888

“You are the music while the music lasts.”

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

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

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Thomas Nast - September 27, 1840

"Another such victory and I am done."

Regarding the cover of Harper's Weekly March 24, 1877:

"It was 1877 and President-Elect Rutherford B. Hayes was being Inaugurated as 19th President after a Closely Contended Battle -- the Results of which were Contested ~ The Nation was Scandalized as Hayes was Chosen President by the Electoral College

Great Political Cartoon Art by Thomas Nast Lampooning the Results of Audacious Political Scallywaggery!

Nast's Iconic Republican Elephant finally Established as the Symbol of the Republican Party..."

"Beauty, to me, is about being comfortable in your own skin. That, or a kick-ass red lipstick."

Gwyneth Paltrow (September 27, 1972)

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"There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife."

Stephen Spender (September 28, 1909 - 1995)

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Confucius - September 28, 551 B.C.

"Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves."

John Sayles, filmmaker (born September 28, 1950)

I've always felt like I was on the margins. Once upon a time that's what independent used to mean.

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"Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most."
Al Capp - (September 28, 1909 – November 5, 1979)

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Miguel de Cervantes - September 29, 1547

“Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it.”

Michelangelo Antonioni, filmmaker (29 September 1912 – 30 July 2007)

Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer.

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"The Cowboy Code:

1. never shoot first, hit a smaller man, or take unfair advantage.
2. never go back on your word, or a trust confided in you.
3. always tell the truth.
4. be gentle with children, the elderly and animals.
5. not advocate or possess racially or religiously intolerant ideas.
6. help people in distress.
7. be a good worker.
8. keep yourself clean in thought, speech, action and personal habits.
9. respect women, parents and your nation's laws.
10. be a patriot."

Gene Autry (September 29, 1907 – October 2, 1998)

Truman Capote - September 30, 1924

“A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.”

"Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing."

W. S. Merwin - ( b. September 30, 1927)

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Julie Andrews (Oct. 1, 1935)

"Sometimes I`m so sweet even I can`t stand it."

"Singing has never been particularly easy for me. "

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It's apparent that I have difficulty picking just one, of anything.

"Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence."

Faith Baldwin (October 1, 1893 - 1978)

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Jimmy Carter - October 1, 1924

“If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.”

"A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman."

Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955)

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Groucho Marx - October 2, 1890

“Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men, the other 999 follow women.”

"We clearly live in a world of secular artists, intellectuals and major media, but interestingly we find religion alive in several significant composers today including Arvo Pärt, Gorecki, Philip Glass, Michael Gordon, Giya Kancheli among others not to mention Igor Stravinsky (or J.S. Bach). Music and religion seem to be intimately tied together. Every society has always had religious music. I am merely part of a long tradition that is still alive."

Steve Reich - (born October 3, 1936)

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"Cats are connoisseurs of comfort."

James Herriot (October 3, 1915 - 1995)

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PENALTY FLAG on ThirdSun for posting a birthday quote before the birthday. :lol: :hyper:

Thomas Wolfe - October 3, 1900

“If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know.”

Alvin Toffler - October 4, 1928

“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”