Good Morning!
Today is the birthday of Beverly Cleary (1916 - ) who said:
“Quite often somebody will say, 'What year do your books take
place?' and the only answer I can give is, in childhood.”
and
“If you don't see the book you want on the shelves, write
it.”
and
“She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not
wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.”
It is also the birthday of Herbie Hancock (1940 - ) who said:
“Life is not about finding your limitations; it's about
finding your infinity.”
and
“I don't look at music from the standpoint of being a
musician; I look at it from the standpoint of being a human being.”
and
“I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's
one of the ways we learn.”
and
“Don’t be afraid to expand yourself, to step out of your
comfort zone. That’s where the joy and the adventure lie.”
Happy Birthday to Tom Clancy (1947 – 2013) who said:
“Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what
you cannot change.”
and
“The point of life was to press on, to do the best you can,
to make the world a better place.”
and
“You learn to write the same way you learn to play golf...
You do it, and keep doing it until you get it right. A lot of people think
something mystical happens to you, that maybe the muse kisses you on the ear.
But writing isn’t divinely inspired – it’s hard work.”
Birthday greetings to the newly announced retiree, David Letterman (1947 - ), who said:
“If it weren't for the coffee, I'd have no identifiable
personality whatsoever.”
and
“America is the only country where a significant proportion
of the population believes that professional wrestling is real but the moon
landing was faked.”
Finally, it is the birthday of Scott Turow (1949 - ) who said:
“Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love.”
and
“Who are we but the stories we tell ourselves, about
ourselves, and believe?”
and
“But some things in life are more important than being happy.
Like being free to think for yourself.”
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