posted August 09, 2005 07:57 AM         

Quotes of those born on MY day down ego down

"Man is certainly stark mad. He cannot make a worm, and yet he is willing to make gods by dozens." Michel de Montaigne

"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." Berthold Auerbach

"The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right. " Douglas McGarel Hogg, Lord Hailsham

"Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock." Ben Hecht

"He has the best possible actors. If you have a disagreement with them, you can always use them to wash your car." Zero Mostel

"If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility." Sir Peter B. Medawar

"He used to be fairly indecisive, but now he's not so certain." Peter Alliss

"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough." Mario Andretti

"We p*** anywhere, man." Brian Jones

"When I grew up in the '60s, your hair had to be straight and you had to be skinny and have no boobs, and it was like not my era." Bernadette Peters

"When I see these guys write all this macho stuff I want to smash their heads." John Turturro

"Unattractive people are more obsessed with looks." Rae Dawn Chong

Other than a hint of arrogance, there is nothing similar between them.

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aka Neptune’s Mermaid, NM, WN, Nurse Neptune, Waternixie, Nepsnympe and deputy #6

posted August 10, 2005 04:05 AM         

"You may have the universe if I may have Italy." Giuseppe Verdi

"In order to appreciate England one has to have a certain contempt for logic." Lin Yutang

"The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity — love. And the story of a love is not important — what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity." Helen Hayes

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

"I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?" Harold Pinter

"Rock'n'Roll is not so much a question of electric guitars as it is striped pants." David Lee Roth

posted August 10, 2005 05:02 AM         

"We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us."
Rabindranath Tagore

"I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could."
Orson Welles

"I was too busy breaking up Tom and Nicole's marriage."
George Clooney

"I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience, most of them are trash."
Sigmund Freud

"To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize on them is infinitely worse."
Rudolph Valentino

"Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war."
Tony Blair

"When you know what you're doing you can do what you want."
Moshe Feldenkrais

"God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it."
Andre Weil

"One never steps twice into the same Auden."
Randall Jarrell

"I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw."
Willie Mays

"Basically, we put our songs together in very much the same way the guys in Metallica do."
John Flansburgh

posted August 10, 2005 08:43 AM         

"What we're interested in, man, is compassion and healing. ... I'm not about show business, man. I'm not entertainment."
Carlos Santana