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• Post #3215020

  "She looked like a high altar on the move." Elizabeth Bowen (06/07/1899 – 02/22/1973) English writer, on Dame Edith Sitwell

• Post #3215019

  "I once shook hands with Pat Boone, and my whole right side sobered up." Dean Martin (06/07/1917 – 12/25/1995) Italian-US singer, actor "Everybody Loves Somebody": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ja32uS-bD0

• Post #3215018

  "Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars." Gwendolyn Brooks (06/07/1917 – 12/03/2000) US writer

• Post #3215017

  "I believe some people are just too damn smart to write fiction." Harry Crews (06/07/1935 – 03/28/2012) US writer

• Post #3215016

  "I like to wake up each morning feeling a new man." Jean Harlow (03/03/1911 – 06/07/1937) US actor

• Post #3215015

  "[The Libyan Army] is capable of destroying America and breaking its nose." Muammar al-Gaddafi (06/07/1942 – 10/20/2011) Libyan military, political leader

• Post #3215014

  "None of you truly believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself." Muhammad (04/22/0571 – 06/08/0632) Arabian religious leader

• Post #3215013

  "The United States of America will sound as pompously in the world or in history as The Kingdom of Great Britain." Thomas Paine (02/09/1737 – 06/08/1809) English-US author, founding father, patriot

• Post #3215012

  "In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of." Robert Schumann (06/08/1810 – 07/29/1856) German composer "Fünf Lieder (Five Songs), op. 40": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdHM5a5qjI4

• Post #3215011

  "The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves." Charles Reade (06/08/1814 – 04/11/1884) English writer

• Post #3215010

  "Dogmatism is puppyism come to its full growth." Douglas Jerrold (01/03/1803 – 06/08/1857) English writer

• Post #3215009

  "Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles." Frank Lloyd Wright (06/08/1867 – 04/09/1959) US architect

• Post #3215008

  "Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius." George Sand (07/01/1804 – 06/08/1876) French writer

• Post #3215007

  "A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print." Marguerite Yourcenar (06/08/1903 – 12/17/1987) Belgian-US writer

• Post #3215006

  "We presuppose two things: that there is yet to be learned infinitely more than is now known, and that man can learn it." John W. Campbell, Jr. (06/08/1910 – 07/11/1971) US writer

• Post #3215005

  "We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time it makes a decision." Byron R. White (06/08/1917 – 04/15/2002) US Supreme Court justice and professional football player

• Post #3215004

  "As if we don't have enough violence on television." Barbara Bush (06/08/1925 – 04/17/2018) US first lady (48) , on hubby George accidentally hitting two spectators with golf balls

• Post #3215003

  "Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field." Jerry Stiller (06/08/1927 – 05/11/2020) US comic actor

• Post #1626991

  "An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out." Max Planck (04/23/1858 – 10/04/1947) German physicist

• Post #941779

  "There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth." Agnes Repplier (04/01/1855 – 12/15/1950) US writer

• Post #711128

  "The real problem is not whether machines think, but whether men do." B. F. Skinner (03/20/1904 – 08/18/1990) US behaviorist

• Post #379968

  "To forgive and forget means to throw away dearly bought experience." Arthur Schopenhauer (02/22/1788 – 09/21/1860) German philosopher