Miles Davis (b. May 26) “Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.”

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• Gilda Radner (b. June 28): “Dreams are like paper, they tear so easily.”
• They’d raised him from a cub…
• My heavy throbber’s itchin’…
• Do these flames make me look hot?
• Helen Keller (b. June 27): “It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.”
• Vera Wang (b. June 27): “Don’t be afraid to take time to learn.”
• Chris Isaak (b. June 26): “The more hurtin’ the music was, the better it made me feel.”
• George Orwell (b. June 25): “Big Brother is watching you.”
• Duffy (b. June 23): “I think music is the only thing that I’ll ever really have.”
• Dan Brown (b. June 22): “My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences…”
• Jean-Paul Sartre (b. June 21): “Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.”
• Nicole Kidman (b. June 20): “You don’t have to be naked to be sexy.”
• Paul McCartney (b. June 18): “If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.”
• M.C. Escher (b. June 17): “I don’t use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.”
• Waylon Jennings (b. June 15): “Honesty is something you can’t wear out.”
• Jerzy Kosinski (b. June 14): “An umbrella interferes with the sky…”
• W.B. Yeats (b. June 13): “Don’t wait till the iron is hot…”
• Hugh Laurie (b. June 11): “You hope that your teenage self would like and forgive your 50-year-old self.”
• Anne Frank (b. June 12): “Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
• Saul Bellow (b. June 10): “A good novel is worth more than the best scientific study.”
• Maurice Sendak (b. June 10): “Childhood is a tricky business.”
• Johnny Depp (b. June 9th): “I don’t pretend to be Captain Weird.”
• Joan Rivers (b. June 8th): “I don’t bend over.”
• Prince (b. June 7th): “Money won’t buy happiness, but it’ll pay for the search.”
• Sandra Bernhard (b. June 6th): “When you’re constantly looking for things from other people, you’re not looking within yourself.”
• Mark Wahlberg (b. June 5th): “I start my day out by saying my prayers.”
• Dr. Ruth (b. June 4th): “Talking about sex has helped my skiing.”
• Allen Ginsberg (b. June 3rd): “Whoever controls media images, controls culture.”
• What to wear on a first date
• Charlie Watts (b. June 2nd): “When people talk about the 60s I never think that was me there.”
• Marilyn Monroe (b. June 1st): “Dreaming about being an actress is more exciting then being one.”
• Clint Eastwood (b. May 31): “I tried being reasonable; I didn’t like it.”
• Cee Lo Green (b. May 30): “Loving something you’ve lost is all the incentive you need to love again.”
• Melissa Etheridge (b. May 29) “I’m so close to Heaven, this Hell cannot be mine.”
• Ian Fleming (b. May 28) “You only live twice.”
• Dashiell Hammett (b. May 27) “I’ve been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.”
• Miles Davis (b. May 26) “Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.”
• Mike Myers (b. May 25) “At any time the no-talent police will come and arrest me.”
• Michael Chabon (b. May 24): “To become a successful novelist, you need talent, luck and discipline…”
• Bob Dylan (b. May 24) “I accept chaos, I’m not sure whether it accepts me.”
• Queen Victoria (b. May 24): “Intimacy with artists is dangerous…”
• Jewel (b. May 23) “Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.”
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (b. May 22): “Life itself is always far more daring than the imagination.”
• Naomi Campbell (b. May 22): “Why do I have to wear underwear?”
• The persistence of cats
• Fats Waller (b. May 21): “If you don’t know what it is, don’t mess with it.”
• Timothy Olyphant (b. May 20): “I’m attracted to roles that are unpredictable…”
• Cher (b. May 20): “The longer I look good, the better gay men feel.”
• Who’s up for coffee…?
• Socket it to me…
• A man for all reasons…
• Malcolm X (b. May 19): “A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.”
• Bertrand Russell (b. May 18): “To fear love is to fear life…”
• Tina Fey (b. May 18): “A rectal thermometer’s the best way to take a baby’s temperature…”
• They’re doing it like people…
• The Devil made me play it…
• Up in smoke… again.
• Enya (b. May 17): “Writing every song is a little journey.”
• Shaken or stirred?
• Megan Fox (b. May 16): “I’m so mentally ill, I could do something really interesting.”
• Jasper Johns (b. May 15): “To be an artist you have to give up everything.”
• David Byrne (b. May 14): “An artist’s creativity comes from torment.”
• Do these pineapples make me look juicy?
• Is it ennui or am I just hungry?
• Stevie Wonder (b. May 13): “Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn’t mean he lacks vision.”
• George Carlin (b. May 12): “Language is a tool for concealing the truth.”
• Salvador Dali (b. May 11): “Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.”
• Bono (b. May 10): “It’s stasis that kills you in the end…”
• Billy Joel (b. May 9th): “I am merely competent…”
• Harry Truman (b. May 8): “A statesman is a politician who’s been dead for 15 years.”
• Eva Peron (b. May 7th): “One cannot accomplish anything without fanaticism.”
• George Clooney (b. May 6th): “I’m really white trash.”
• Orson Welles (b. May 6th): “I started at the top and worked my way down.”
• Tammy Wynette (b. May 5th): “It’s hard giving all your love to just one man.”
• Audrey Hepburn (b. May 4th): “I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone.”
• James Brown (b. May 3rd): “The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing.”
• Great Expectorations, by Dr. Charles Dickens (humor)
• David Beckham (b. May 2nd): “I always wanted to be a hairdresser.”
• Joseph Heller (b. May 1st): “A writer is only discovered once in a lifetime.”
• Annie Dillard (b. April 30): “Many writers do little but sit in small rooms recalling the real world.”
• Willie Nelson (b. April 30): “Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.”
• Jerry Seinfeld (b. April 29): “Bookstores are the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.”
• Ian Rankin (b. April 28): “Most writers are just kids who refuse to grow up.”
• Jay Leno (b. April 28): “God owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology.”
• Mary Wollstonecraft (b. April 27): “It is vain to expect virtue from women until they are independent of men.”
• Coretta Scott King (b. April 27): “Women must become the soul of the nation.”
• Anita Loos (b. April 26): “I love high style in low company.”
• Carol Burnett (b. April 26): “Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.”
• Al Pacino (b. April 25): “I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.”
• Sue Grafton (b. April 24): “Ideas are easy. It’s their execution that separates the sheep from the goats.”
• Barbra Streisand (b. April 24): “I’m simple, complex, lazy and driven.”
• William Shakespeare (b. April 23): “A fool thinks he’s wise, but a wise man knows he’s a fool.”
• Vladimir Nabokov (b. April 22): “I think like a genius, speak like a child.”
• Jack Nicholson (b. April 22): “I only take Viagra when I’m with more than one woman.”
• Alistair MacLean (b. April 21): “I’m not a born writer, and I don’t enjoy writing.”
• Mercury Retrograde Sex
• Iggy Pop (b. April 21): “Nobody understands me, I’m really sensitive.”
• Sebastien Faulks (b. April 20): “Everything I know about structure I learned from classical music.”
• Joan Miro (b. April 20): “I try to apply colors like words that shape poems.”
• James Franco (b. April 19): “You want to be interesting? Be interested.”
• Jayne Mansfield (b. April 19): “Men are creatures with two legs and eight hands.”
• Alexandra Adornetto (b. April 18): “The crucial factor is the opening sentence.”
• Conan O’Brien (b. April 18): “Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get.”
• Thornton Wilder (b. April 17): “An incinerator is a writer’s best friend.”
• Victoria Beckham (b. April 17): “As a performer you’re a celebrity, but you’re not saving lives.”
• Kingsley Amis (b. April 16): “If you can’t annoy somebody, there’s little point in writing.”
• Charlie Chaplin (b. April 16): “In the end, everything’s a gag.”
• Jeffrey Archer (b. April 15): “There’s no substitute for reading great novelists.”
• Leonardo da Vinci (b. April 15): “Art is never finished, only abandoned.”
• Bruce Sterling (b. April 14): “Embrace your nerditude.”
• Loretta Lynn (b. April 14): “I pray for answers to my problems.”
• Not waiting for Godot any longer…
• Eudora Welty (b. Apr 13): “If you haven’t surprised yourself, you haven’t written.”
• Samuel Beckett (b. April 13): “We are all born mad.”
• Tom Clancy (b. April 12): “The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”
• David Letterman (b. April 12): “I can’t sing, dance or act.”
• Thomas Harris (b. April 11): “Fear comes with imagination…”
• Anton LaVey (b. April 11): “Satan has been the best friend the Church ever had.”
• Paul Theroux (b. April 10): “Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves.”
• Anne Lamott (b. April 10): “Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts.”
• Mercury retrograde: useless for three weeks..?
• Joseph Pulitzer (b. April 10): “The power to mold the future will be in the hands of journalists.”
• Charles Baudelaire (b. April 9th): “Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us.”
• Hugh Hefner (b. April 9th): “Picasso had his blue period; I’m in my blonde period.”
• James Herbert (b. April 8th): “I’m not just in it for the gore.”
• Barbara Kingsolver (b. April 8th): “I struggle with confidence, every time.”
• Donald Barthelme (b. April 7th): “I’m interested in the ugly sentence that is also beautiful.”
• Billie Holiday (b. April 7th): “I’m always making a comeback…”
• Charles Jackson (b. April 6th): “The writer lives by biting the hand that feeds him.”
• Merle Haggard (b. April 6th): “I had more freedom on parole than in America right now.”
• Richard Peck (b. April 5th): “Nobody but a reader becomes a writer.”
• Bette Davis (b. April 5th): “A sure way to lose happiness…”
• Marguerite Duras (b. April 4th): “Men like women who write.”
• Muddy Waters (b. April 4th): “I been in the blues all my life.”
• Marlon Brando (b. April 3rd): “Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse.”
• Reginald Hill (b. April 3rd): “You’re never alone with a novel. “
• Alec Baldwin (b. April 3rd): “Sex is like a Chinese dinner…”
• Christopher Meloni (b. April 2nd): “I’m a nudist at heart…”
• Mutual Reception: Book review by Donna Van Toen, ISAR
• Émile Zola (b. April 2nd): “I am here to live out loud.”
• Marvin Gaye (b. April 2nd): “Music, not sex, got me aroused.”
• Abraham Maslow (b. April 1st): “The story of the human race: men and women selling themselves short.”
• Milan Kundera (b. April 1st): “All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.”
• Otto von Bismarck (b. April 1st): “Laws are like sausages…”
• Angus Young (b. March 31): “When I’m on stage the savage in me is released.”
• René Descartes (b. March 31): “You just keep pushing…”
• Sean O’Casey (b. March 30): “Money doesn’t make you happy but it quiets the nerves.”
• Paul Verlaine (b. March 30): “The poet is a madman lost in adventure.”
• Vincent Van Gogh ( b. March 30): “I put my heart into my work, and lost my mind.”
• Jo Nesbø (b. March 29): “It’s impossible to write anything without being political.”