Henry Clay and his wife, the former Lucretia Hart (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Henry Clay – 1777 – Senator
“If you want to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.”
John Billings – 1818 – Comedian
“There’s a great power in words, if you don’t hitch too many of them together.”
Claud Cockburn – 1904 – Journalist
“Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.”
Beverly Cleary – 1916 – Author
“Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? And the only answer I can give is, In childhood.”
Charley Lau – 1933 – Athlete
“There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them works.”
Serge Schmemann – 1945 – Journalist
“The art of reading between the lines is as old as manipulated information.”
Tom Clancey – 1947 – Author
“I’ve made up stuff that’s turned out to be real, that’s the spooky part.”
David Letterman – 1947 – Television Talk Show Host
“I’m just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious.”
Major League Baseball player Charlie Lau in his official 1957 Detroit Tigers photo. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Scott Turow – 1949 – Novelist
“If life’s lessons could be reduced to single sentences, there would be no need for fiction.”
Tama Janowitz – 1957 – Novelist
“With publicity comes humiliation.”
Amy Ray – 1964 – Musician
“When people say, ‘Nothing’s coming to me,’ they usually don’t like what’s coming to them.”
Vince Gill – 1957 – Country Music Singer and Songwriter
“Success is always temporary. When all is said and done, the only thing you’ll have left is your character.”
Nicholas Brendon – 1971 – Actor
“I try to maintain the perspective that life is meant to be laughed at.”
Shannen Doherty – 1971 – Actress
“Have you ever felt like a phone call that’s been disconnected?”
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