Daily Birthday/Deathday Quote

"Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems."

Linus Torvalds (December 28, 1969)



"The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed."

Clarence Day (1874 - December 28, 1935)

 

"Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity."

Edwin Hubbel Chapin (December 29, 1814 - 1880)



"Better by far that you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad."

Christina Rossetti (1830 - December 29, 1894)

 

"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."

L. P. Hartley (December 30, 1895 - 1972)



"What's wrong with sweetness and light? It's been around quite awhile."

Richard Rodgers (1902 - December 30, 1979)

 

"I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things."

Henri Matisse (December 31, 1869 - 1954)



"Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it."

Marshall McLuhan (1911 - December 31, 1980)

 

"I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy."

J. D. Salinger (January 1, 1919 - 2010)


"Time granted does not necessarily coincide with time that can be most fully used."

Tillie Olsen (1912 - January 1, 2007)

 

“The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.”


--- J. Edgar Hoover, Jan 1 1895 - May 2 1972

 

"It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be... This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking."

Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 - 1992)



"Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius."

Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741 - January 2, 1801)

 

"The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer."

Victor Borge (January 3, 1909 - 2000)



"What would ye, ladies? It was ever thus.
Men are unwise and curiously planned."

James Elroy Flecker (1884 - January 3, 1915)

 

"There is so much hate among people, so much contempt inside people who'd like you to think they're moral, that they have to hire prizefighters to do their hating for them. And we do. We get into a ring and act out other people's hates."

Floyd Patterson (January 4, 1935 - 2006)



"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal."

Albert Camus (1913 - January 4, 1960)

 

"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these."

George Washington Carver (January 5, 1864 - January 5, 1903)

 

"Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth."

Alan Watts (January 6, 1916 - 1973)



"I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds."

Dizzy Gillespie (1917- January 6, 1973)

 

"Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it."

Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 - 1960)



"One of the indictments of civilization is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person."

William Feather (1889 - January 7, 1981)

 

"I am more important than my problems."

Jose Ferrer (January 8, 1909 - 1992)



"A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books."

Francois Mitterand (1916 - January 8, 1996)

 

"Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay."

Simone de Beauvoir (January 9, 1908 - 1986)




"A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness."

Bernard de Fontenelle (1657 - January 9, 1757)

 

"I would like to see all people who read pornography or have anything to do with it put in a mental hospital for observation so we could find out what we have done to them."

Linda Lovelace (January 10, 1939 - 2002) ----- this one's for you, Uncle Phil



"American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead."

Sinclair Lewis (1885 - January 10, 1951)

 

"Each of us puts in one little stone, and then you get a great mosaic at the end."

Alice Paul (January 11, 1885 - 1977)



"It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves."

Sir Edmund Hillary (1919 - January 11, 2008)

 

"You can't wait for inspiration—you have to go after it with a club."

Jack London (January 12, 1876 - 1916)



"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think."

Lorraine Hansberry (1930 - January 12, 1965)

 

"Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first."

Ernestine Ulmer (January 13, 1925)



"Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything."

Wyatt Earp (1848 - January 13, 1949)

 

"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats."

Dr. Albert Schweitzer (January 14, 1875 - 1965)



"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."

Anais Nin (1903 - January 14, 1977)

 

"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 - 1968)



"That incident with Lennon ruined my reputation for 10 years. Get one Beatle drunk and look what happens!"

Harry Nilsson (1941 - January 15, 1994)