Today is the birthday of the following people:
John Galsworthy (1867 – 1933):
“Life calls the tune, we
dance.”
and
“It was such a spring day as
breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that
makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his
arms to embrace he knows not what.”
and
“The biggest tragedy of life is
the utter impossibility to change what you have done”
and
“Beauty means this to one
person, perhaps, and that to another. And yet when any one of us has seen or
heard or read that which to him is beautiful, he has known an emotion which is
in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and
uplifting. A choirboy's voice, a ship in sail, an opening flower, a town at
night, the song of the blackbird, a lovely poem, leaf shadows, a child's grace,
the starry skies, a cathedral, apple trees in spring, a thorough-bred horse,
sheep-bells on a hill, a rippling stream, a butterfly, the crescent moon -- the
thousand sights or sounds or words that evoke in us the thought of beauty --
these are the drops of rain that keep the human spirit from death by drought. They
are a stealing and a silent refreshment that we perhaps do not think about but
which goes on all the time....It would surprise any of us if we realized how
much store we unconsciously set by beauty, and how little savour there would be
left in life if it were withdrawn. It is the smile on the earth's face, open to
all, and needs but the eyes to see, the mood to understand.”
Russell Baker (1925 - ):
“The only thing I was fit for
was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would
never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.”
and
“Don't try to make children
grow up to be like you, or they may do it.”
and
“Life seemed to be an
educator's practical joke in which you spent the first half learning and the
second half learning that everything you learned in the first half was wrong.”
David Crosby (1941 - ):
“ ‘It can't happen here’ is
number one on the list of famous last words.”
Steve Martin (1945 - ):
“A day without sunshine is
like, you know, night.”
and
“It's pain that changes our
lives.”
and
“I believe entertainment can
aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an
idiot.”
and
“Writer's block is a fancy term
made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.”
and
“Thankfully, persistence is a
great substitute for talent.”
Wim Wenders (1945 - ):
“Any film that supports the
idea that things can be changed is a great film in my eyes.”
Gary Larson (1950 - ):
“I don't believe in the concept
of hell, but if I did I would think of it as filled with people who were cruel
to animals.”
and
“You always hear a headline
like this, 'Man Killed By Shark', you never hear it from the other perspective,
'Man Swims in Shark Infested Waters, Forgets He's Shark Food'.”
Ed Harcourt (1977 – ):
“I've tried to be myself
Sometimes daydreaming for hours
Wishing for a dangerous life
Cut the leash some slack
Run into the morning light
Race the trains by the track
Until my mouth feels dry”
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