May 16
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William Seward
"No man will ever be President of the United States who spells Negro with two Gs."
Mrs. Harry St. Clair Zogbaum (Leola Baird Leonard)
"That nonchalant attempt of Eve's
to fashion garments from leaves
was not, as you have heard, inspired
by shame at being unattired."
Virgilia Peterson
"I can understand that memory must be selective, else it would choke on the glut of experience. What I cannot understand is why it selects what it does."
Henry Fonda
"I've been close to Bette Davis for thirty-eight years—and I have the cigarette burns to prove it."
Liberace
"John Gielgud is so camp! When he took home the Oscar for 'Arthur,' he said, 'Just what I've always wanted—a
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man in my rumpus room.'"
Adrienne Rich
"It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful."
Betty Carter
"If it wasn't for [pimps, prostitutes, hustlers, gangsters, and gamblers] there wouldn't be no jazz! They supported the club owners who bought the music. It wasn't the middle-class people who said 'Let's go hear Charlie Parker tonight.'"
Robert Fripp
"Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence."
Bob Edwards
"When Solomon said that there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking an automobile."
Pierce Brosnan
"I don't see myself as the Hunk of the Month."
Debra Winger
"I have a thing with the camera. The lens is unconditional. It doesn't judge you."
Howard Stern:
"What is the capital of New York?"
Tori Spelling:
"...New Jersey?"