Today is the birthday of the following people:
Sid Caesar (1922 – 2014):
“In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.”
Siegfried Sassoon (1886 –
1967):
“The fact is that five years
ago I was, as near as possible, a different person to what I am tonight. I, as
I am now, didn't exist at all. Will the same thing happen in the next five
years? I hope so.”
and
“For it is humanly certain that
most of us remember very little of what we have read. To open almost any book a
second time is to be reminded that we had forgotten well-nigh everything that
the writer told us. Parting from the narrator and his narrative, we retain only
a fading impression; and he, as it were, takes the book away from us and tucks
it under his arm.”
Peter Sellers (1925 – 1980):
“Who in the world am I? Ah,
that's the great puzzle!”
Michael Frayn (1933 - ):
“Mathematics becomes very odd
when you apply it to people. One plus one can add up to so many different sums”
Jack Prelutsky (1940 - ):
“A poet is not something you
become; a poet is something you are.”
Bernie Sanders (1941 - ):
“The American people want to
know that when they borrow a book from the library or buy a book, the
government won't be looking over their shoulder. Everybody wants to fight
terrorism, but we have to do it in away that protects American freedom.”
and
"In my view, a corporation
is not a person, A corporation does not have First Amendment rights to spend as
much money as it wants, without disclosure, on a political
campaign. Corporations should not be able to go into their treasuries and
spend millions and millions of dollars on a campaign in order to buy
elections."
Ann Beattie (1947 - ):
“Clouds are poems, and the most
moving poems linger on the blackboard so long, written in cursive so lovely,
they also exist inside our fingertips. We never really erase them at the end of
the lesson.”
Jon Scieszka (1954 - ):
“Your brain is doing some great
work when it's laughing.”
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