Daily Birthday/Deathday Quote

"Everywhere I go I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher."

Flannery O'Connor (March 25, 1925 - 1964)



"I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while."

Max Eastman (1883 - March 25, 1969)

 

"When in doubt, faint."

Keira Knightley (March 26, 1985)



"If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live."

Lin Yutang (1895 - March 26, 1976)

 

"All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year."

Gloria Swanson (March 27, 1899 - 1983)



"All I want for my birthday is another birthday."

Ian Dury (1942 - March 27, 2000)

 

"Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains."

Paul Whiteman (March 28, 1890 - 1967)



"The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness."

Jesse Owens (1913 - March 28, 1980)

 

"The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others."

Vincent Van Gogh (March 30, 1853 - 1890)



"I used to do drugs. I still do drugs. But I used to, too."

Mitch Hedberg (1968 - March 30, 2005)

 

"I'm sick and tired of people saying that we put out 11 albums that sound exactly the same. In fact, we've put out 12 albums that sound exactly the same."

Angus Young (March 31, 1955)



"Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet."

John Donne (1572 - March 31, 1631)

 

"When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail."

Abraham Maslow (April 1, 1908 - 1970)



"No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times."

Martha Graham (1894 - April 1, 1991)

 

"Mediocrity is gonna kill the world before Armageddon ever does."

Emmylou Harris (April 2, 1947)



"The truth is not always the same as the majority decision."

Pope John Paul II (1920 - April 2, 2005)

 

"A politician thinks of the next election—a statesman, of the next generation."

James Freeman Clarke (April 4, 1810 - 1888)



"I didn't choose Alabama as the focal point of the struggle because it was the most backwards place in the need of the most change. I chose it because it was the one place where the people there gave me the most promise of success."

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929 - April 4, 1968)

 

"Your character is your power."

Booker T. Washington (April 5, 1856 - 1915)




"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are."

Kurt Cobain (1967 - April 5, 1994)

 

"We're all just walking each other home."

Ram Dass (April 6, 1928)



"My music is best understood by children and animals."

Igor Stravinsky (1882 - April 6, 1971)

 

"Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain."

Billie Holliday (April 7, 1915 - 1959)



"Irony is the hygiene of the mind."

Princess Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco (1897 - April 7, 1945)

 

"He was like a real dad, you know. We used to sit down with guitars and mess around."

Julian Lennon (April 8, 1963)



"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."

Pablo Picasso (1881 - April 8, 1973)

 

"Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone—and hurt them to the bone—you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time."

Dave van Ronk (April 9, 1905 - 2002)



"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is."

Francis Bacon (1561 - April 9, 1626)

 

"Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light."

Joseph Pulitzer (April 10, 1847 - 1911)


"Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live."

Henry van Dyke (1852 - April 10, 1933)

 

"Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God."

Lionel Hampton (April 12, 1908 - 2002)



"Garden as though you will live forever."

William Kent (1685 - April 12, 1748)

 

"The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments."

Annie Sullivan (April 14, 1866 - 1936)



"It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. . . . Death does away with time."

Simone de Beauvoir (1908 - April 14, 1986)

 

"When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him."

Thomas Szasz (April 15, 1920 - 2012)



"When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees."

Abraham Lincoln (1809 - April 15, 1865)

 

"Brilliance is typically the act of an individual, but incredible stupidity can usually be traced to an organization."

John Bentley (April 16, 1951)



"The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead."

Ralph Ellison (1914 - April 16, 1994)

 

"Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion."

Thornton Wilder (April 17, 1897 - 1975)



"I have made my world and it is a much better world than I ever saw outside."

Louise Nevelson (1889 - April 17, 1988)