Daily Birthday/Deathday Quote

"I've upped my standards. Now, up yours."

Pat Paulsen (July 6, 1927 - 1997)



"If you has to ask what Jazz is, shame on you."

Louis Armstrong (1901 - July 6, 1971)

 

"I like Beethoven, especially the poems."

Ringo Starr (July 7, 1940)



"Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you."

Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 - July 7, 1816)

 

"He had delusions of adequacy."

Walter Kerr (July 8, 1913 - 1996)



"The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer."

Havelock Ellis (1859 - July 8, 1939)

 

"Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more."

Nikola Tesla (July 9, 1856 - 1943)



"To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting."

Edmund Burke (1729 - July 9, 1797)

 

"You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in."

Arlo Guthrie (July 10, 1947)



"That's All Folks!"

Mel Blanc (1908 - July 10, 1989)

 

"I refuse to slap some stupid words on the stupid paper just so we have a stupid song finished."

Suzanne Vega (July 11, 1959)



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

George Gershwin (1898 - July 11, 1937)

 

"It's not what you look at that matters, but what you see."

Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 - 1862)



"When I get a little money, I buy books. And if there is any left over, I buy food."

Desiderius Erasmus (1466 - July 12, 1536)

 

"The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail."

Wole Solinka (July 13, 1934)



"Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument."

Rufus Choate (1799 - July 13, 1859)

 

"Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic."

Nicola Abbagnano (July 15, 1900 - 1990)



"Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too."

Anton Chekhov (1860 - July 15, 1904)

 

"In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular."

Kathleen Norris (July 16, 1880 - 1966)



"Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people."

Harry Chapin (1942 - July 16, 1981)

 

Yea, Harry.

 

"A man who has a million dollars is as well off as if he were rich."

John Jacob Astor (July 17, 1763 - 1848)



"Sometimes I’d think I was making music through the wrong end of a magnifying glass."

John Coltrane (1926 - July 17, 1967)

 

"Next to the very young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish."

William Makepeace Thackery (July 18, 1811 - 1863)



"A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again."

Carl van Doren (1885 - July 18, 1950)

 

"The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old."

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (July 19, 1921 - 2011)



"Happiness is hard to recall. It's just a glow."

Frank McCourt (1930 - July 19, 2009)

 

"He may be dead; or he may be teaching English."

Cormac McCarthy (July 20, 1933)



"Everything changes but the avant garde."

Paul Valery (1871 - July 20, 1945)

 

"Love is the ultimate outlaw."

Tom Robbins (July 22, 1936)



"The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring."

Carl Sandburg (1878 - July 22, 1967)

 

"She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket."

Raymond Chandler (July 23, 1888 - 1959)



"If I died tomorrow, I would be a happy girl."

Amy Winehouse (1983 - July 23, 2011)

 

Definitely a publicity shot. Mel had an allergic reaction to carrots and would spit them out after taking a bite for the microphone; nothing else would make the correct sound. Fans who recognised him on the streets would offer him carrots. His last words were "I love ya doc" said to his wife in the voice of Bugs Bunny.

 

"I don't want to live, I want to love first and live incidentally."

Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald (July 24, 1900 - 1948)



"When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer."

Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904 - July 24, 1991)

 

"Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive."

Josephine Tey (July 25, 1896 - 1952)



"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?"

Harry M. Warner (1881 - July 25, 1958)