Daily Birthday/Deathday Quote

"When you know what you're doing you can do what you want."

Moshe Feldenkrais (May 6, 1904 - 1984)



"Now we can cross the shifting sands" (his last words)

L. Frank Baum (1856 - May 6, 1919)

 

George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 - 1985)
"My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people."
and one I completely agree with -
"Keep Ted Turner and his goddamned Crayolas away from my movies."

 

"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?"

Robert Browning (May 7, 1812 - 1889)



"Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel."

Socrates (470 B.C. - May 7, 399 B.C.)

 

Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.
Johannes Brahms May 7, 1833 - April 3, 1897

 

"Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day."

Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 - 1972)



"Art is either plagiarism or revolution."

Paul Gauguin (1848 - May 8, 1903)

 

I love you, Brahms.

 

"A theory has only the alternative of being wrong. A model has a third possibility—it might be right but irrelevant."

Manfred Eigen (May 9, 1927)



"It is only the amateur [gardener] like myself who becomes obsessed and rejoices with a sadistic pleasure in weeds that are big and bad enough to pull, and at last, almost forgetting the flowers altogether, turns into a Reformer."

Dame Freya Madeline Stark (1893 - May 9, 1993)

 

"The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without ever seeing any."

Fred Astaire (May 10, 1899 - 1987)



"Why has the South produced so many good writers? Because we got beat."

Walker Percy (1911 - May 10, 1990)

 

"The only sin is mediocrity."

Martha Graham (May 11, 1894 - 1991)



"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."

Douglas Adams (1952 - May 11, 2001)

 

"It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong"

"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool."

Richard P. Feynman, May 11, 1918 - February 15, 1988

 

"Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better."

Florence Nightingale (May 12, 1820 - 1910)



Click to hear a rare recording of her voice:
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax3B4gRQNU4



"People who see a drawing in the "New Yorker" will think automatically that it's funny because it is a cartoon. If they see it in a museum, they think it is artistic; and if they find it in a fortune cookie they think it is a prediction."

Saul Steinberg (1914 - May 12, 1999)

 

"Writers should be read—but neither seen nor heard."

Daphne duMaurier (May 13, 1907 - 1989)



"A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction."

Sholom Aleichem (1859 - May 13, 1916)

 

"Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it."

Brian Eno (May 15, 1948)



"Hope is the thing with feathers..."

Emily Dickinson (1830 - May 15, 1886)

 

"I can understand that memory must be selective, else it would choke on the glut of experience. What I cannot understand is why it selects what it does."

Virgilia Peterson (May 16, 1904 - 1964)



"There's no drama like wrestling."

Andy Kaufman (1949 - May 16, 1984)

 

"The musician is perhaps the most modest of all animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry."

Erik Satie (May 17, 1866 - 1925)




"It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches."

Robert Hutchins (1899 - May 17, 1977)

 

"I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up."

Mary Cassatt (May 22, 1844 - 1926)

***Photobucket is holding Mary's photo hostage today. Hopefully, it will release her unharmed soon***

"Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it."

Langston Hughes (1902 - May 22, 1967)

 

"Stop looking at my teeth and look at my breasts."

Jewel (May 23, 1974)



"Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy. I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy."

Lloyd Bentsen (1921 - May 23, 2006)

 

"I'll play it first and tell you what it is later."

Miles Davis (May 25, 1926 - 1991)



"Love that is not madness is not love."

Pedro Calderon de la Barca (1600 - May 25, 1681)

 

"A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin."

Edmond de Goncourt (May 26, 1822 - 1896)



"In the Top Forty, half the songs are secret messages to the teen world to drop out, turn on, and groove with the chemicals and light shows at discotheques."

Art Linkletter (1912 - May 26, 2010)