"Some said, John, print it; others said, Not so:
Some said, It might do good; others said, no."
John Bunyan
(11/28/1628 – 08/31/1688)
English writer, minister , Apology, The Pilgrim's Progress
Some said, It might do good; others said, no."
John Bunyan
(11/28/1628 – 08/31/1688)
English writer, minister , Apology, The Pilgrim's Progress
"Any healthy man can go without food for two days, but not without poetry."Charles Baudelaire
(04/09/1821 – 08/31/1867)
French writer
"If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men."Dr. Maria Montessori
(08/31/1870 – 05/06/1952)
Italian educator
"God granted me the privilege of knowing the brilliant works of our time before they left the hands of their creators. And if I was allowed to assist these knights for a while, then my existence is justified and blessed!"Alma Schindler Mahler Kokoschka Gropius Werfel
(08/31/1879 – 12/11/1964)
Austrian writer (was married to Gustav Mahler, Walter Gropius, and Franz Werfel; had affairs with Oskar Kokoschka, Gustav Klimt, Arnold Schoenberg, Gerhart Hauptman, Alban Berg, Enrico Caruso, Alexander Zemlinksy, Johannes Hollnsteiner, among others)
"Co-starring with Garbo hardly constituted an introduction."Fredric March
(08/31/1897 – 04/14/1975)
US actor
"I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is—I could be just as proud for half the money."Arthur Godfrey
(08/31/1903 – 03/16/1983)
US actor
"The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited."William Saroyan
(08/31/1908 – 05/18/1981)
US writer (was married to Carol Grace)
"The female sex has no greater fan than I, and I have the bills to prove it."Alan Jay Lerner
(08/31/1918 – 06/14/1986)
US lyricist (songwriting partner of Frederick Loewe; was married to Nancy Olson, among others)
"I've had a few arguments with people, but I never carry a grudge. You know why? While you're carrying a grudge, they're out dancing."Buddy Hackett
(08/31/1924 – 06/30/2003)
US comic
"You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman."Eldridge Cleaver
(08/31/1935 – 05/01/1998)
US activist
"Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag."Van Morrison
(08/31/1945 – )
Irish-US singer
"I don't want to be a personality."Richard Gere
(08/31/1949 – )
US actor (was married to Cindy Crawford)
"It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor."
John Ford
(02/01/1895 – 08/31/1973)
US filmmaker
John Ford
(02/01/1895 – 08/31/1973)
US filmmaker
"In my opinion, everything, every shape, every bit of natural form, animals, people, pebbles, shells, anything you like are all things that can help you to make a sculpture."Henry Moore
(07/30/1898 – 08/31/1986)
English sculptor
"The sunset caught me, turned the brush to copper,
set the clouds
to one great roof of flame
above the earth."
Elizabeth Coatsworth
(05/31/1893 – 08/31/1986)
US writer
set the clouds
to one great roof of flame
above the earth."
Elizabeth Coatsworth
(05/31/1893 – 08/31/1986)
US writer
"There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded."Princess Diana
(07/01/1961 – 08/31/1997)
English royalty (was married to Prince Charles)
"Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God."Lionel Hampton
(04/12/1908 – 08/31/2002)
US jazz great
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