Daily Birthday/Deathday Quote

"If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive..."

Eleanora Duse (October 3, 1858 - 1924)



"As through this world I've wandered I've seen lots of funny men;
Some will rob you with a six-gun, And some with a fountain pen."

Woody Guthrie (1912 - October 3, 1967)

 

"One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition."

Alvin Toffler (October 4, 1928)



"I'd rather have ten years of super-hypermost than live to be seventy by sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV."

Janis Joplin (1943 - October 4, 1970)

 

"Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple."

Barry Switzer (October 5, 1937)



"Your time is limited. Don't live somebody else's life."

Steve Jobs (1955 - October 5, 2011)

 

"The well of nature is full today. Time to go outside and take a drink"

Diane Ackerman (October 7, 1948)



"They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."

Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - October 7, 1849)

 

"Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him."

Frank Herbert (October 8, 1920 - 1986)



"I shall look forward to a pleasant time."

John Hancock (1737 - October 8, 1793)

 

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."

John Lennon (October 9, 1940 - 1980)



"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time."

Anna Freud (1895 - October 9, 1982)

 

"One is always considered mad when one perfects something that others cannot grasp."

Ed Wood (October 10, 1924 - 1978)



"Siegel and Shuster created a piece of American mythology. There will be many interpretations of Superman, but the original character created by two teenagers in the '30s will last forever."

Christopher Reeve (1952 - October 10, 2004)

 

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

Eleanor Roosevelt (October 11, 1884 - 1962)



"Mustard's no good without roast beef."

Chico Marx (1887 - October 11, 1961)

 

"Some feminists feel that a woman should never be wrong. We have a right to be wrong."

Alice Childress (October 12, 1920 - 1994)



"The education of a man is never completed until he dies."

Robert E. Lee (1807 - October 12, 1870)

 

"Every day, people are straying away from the Church and going back to God."

Lenny Bruce (October 13, 1925 - 1966)



"Are you living for the things you are praying for?"

Austin Phelps (1820 - October 13, 1890)

 

"Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go."

e. e. cummings (October 14, 1894 - 1962)



"They've great respect for the dead in Hollywood, but none for the living."

Errol Flynn (1909 - October 14, 1959)

 

"Now and then one sees a face which has kept its smile pure and undefiled. Such a smile transfigures; such a smile, if the artful but know it, is the greatest weapon a face can have."

Helen Hunt Jackson (October 15, 1830 - 1885)



"I am a woman who enjoys herself very much; sometimes I lose, sometimes I win."

Mata Hari (1876 - October 15, 1917)

 

"True friends stab you in the front."

Oscar Wilde (October 16, 1854 - 1900)



"I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long."

Marie Antoinette (1755 - October 16, 1795)

 

"I do not, for one, think that the problem was that the band was down. I think that the problem *may* have been, that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being *crushed* by a *dwarf*. Alright? That tended to understate the hugeness of the object."

Michael McKean (October 17, 1947)




"I've got the world in a jug
The stopper's in my hand."

Alberta Hunter (1895 - October 17, 1984)

 

"I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race."

Thomas Love Peacock (October 18, 1785 - 1866)



"How sad would be November if we had no knowledge of the spring."

Edwin Way Teale (1899 - October 18, 1980)

 

"The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs."

Alphonse de Lamartine (October 21, 1790 - 1869)



"I have always preferred the reflect of the life to life itself."

Francois Truffaut (1932 - October 21, 1984)

 

"Go chill your stinky self in a pasture."

Mrs. Warrrreagl - aka Grancey (October 22, 19??)



"If I had my life to live over, I'd live it over a deli."

Soupy Sales (1926 - October 22, 2009)

 

"Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football."

John Heisman (October 23, 1869 - 1936)



"They’ve come to see me bat, not you umpire. Play on!"

Dr. W. G. Grace (1848 - October 23, 1915)

 

"These people who are always briskly doing something and as busy as waltzing mice, they have little, sharp, staccato ideas, such as: 'I see where I can make an annual cut of $3.47 in my meat budget.' But they have no slow, big ideas."

Brenda Ueland (October 24, 1891 - 1985)



"A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within."

Ariel Durant (1898 - October 24, 1981)

 

"The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion."

Henry Steele Commager (October 25, 1902 - 1998)



"I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come."

Richard Brautigan (1935 - October 25, 1984)