Daily Birthday/Deathday Quote

"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of old ones."

John Cage (September 5, 1912 - 1992)



"I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much."

Mother Teresa (1910 - September 5, 1997)

 

"Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women."

Elsa Schiaparelli (September 10, 1890 - 1973)



"If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just."

Anita Roddick (1942 - September 10, 2007)

 

"I would have loved France — without the French."

D. H. Lawrence (September 11, 1895 - 1930)



"I was the class clown, but I was also student body president in high school. I had my serious side—I idolized Bobby Kennedy, he was my role model. But so was Jerry Lewis."

John Ritter (1948 - September 11, 2003)

 

"There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness."

Han Suyin (September 12, 1917 - 2012)



"You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone."

Johnny Cash (1932 - September 12, 2003)

 

"Everyone said that if you want to be a real actor, go to New York. If you want to sell out, go to LA. And I thought—I want to sell out!"

Jennifer Tilly (September 16, 1958)



"Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish."

Anne Bradstreet (1612 - September 16, 1672)

 

"You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly."

Hank Williams (September 17, 1923 - 1953)



"All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner."

Red Skelton (1913 - September 17, 1997)

 

"Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?"

Greta Garbo

(September 18, 1905 - 1990)



"It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you're dead, you're made for life."

Jimi Hendrix (1942 - September 18, 1970)

 

"Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind."

William Golding (September 19, 1911 - 1993)



"In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision."

Italo Calvino (1923 - September 19, 1985)

 

"Fascism is capitalism plus murder."

Upton Sinclair (September 20, 1878 - 1968)



"A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems."

Paul Erdos (1913 - 1996)

 

"We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones."

Stephen King (September 21, 1947)



"I thought I'd hit a small deer."

Bryan Smith (1957 - September 21, 2000)

 

"I want to write songs that are so sad, the kind of sad where you take someone's little finger and break it in three places."

Nick Cave (September 22, 1957)



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Marcel Marceau (1923 - September 22, 2007)

 

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"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."

Euripides (September 23, 480 BC - 406 BC)



"I would never discriminate against someone's talent because they showed the poor taste to like me."

Bob Fosse (1927 - September 23, 1987)

 

"Time's fun when you're having flies."

Jim Henson (September 24, 1936 - 1990)



"Adults are obsolete children."

Dr. Seuss (1904 - September 24, 1991)

 

"For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end."

Catherine Zeta-Jones (September 25, 1969)



"I wasn't a child at 13; were you?"

Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930 - September 25, 1999)

 

"The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another."

J. Frank Dobie (September 26, 1888 - 1964)



"All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife."

Daniel Boone (1734 - September 26, 1820)

 

Daniel would have loved the Beatles "Happiness is a Warm Gun"

 

"Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act."

Truman Capote (September 30, 1924 - 1984)



"Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done."

James Dean (1931 - September 30, 1955)

 

"Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations."

Faith Baldwin (October 1, 1893 - 1978)



"I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel."

E.B. White (1899 - October 1, 1985)

 

"His hilarity was like a scream from a crevasse."

Graham Greene (October 2, 1904 - 1991)



"I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste."

Marcel Duchamp (1887 - October 2, 1968)