Earl Derr Biggers Quotes
American - Novelist August 24, 1884 - April 5, 1933

Careless shepherd make excellent dinner for wolf.
Earl Derr Biggers

Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear.
Earl Derr Biggers

This is unexpected... like squirt from aggressive grapefruit.
Earl Derr Biggers

Do not wave stick when trying to catch dog.
Earl Derr Biggers

Every man must wear out at least one pair of fools shoes.
Earl Derr Biggers


Duke Kahanamoku Quotes
American - Athlete August 24, 1890 - January 22, 1968

Just take your time - wave comes. Let the other guys go, catch another one.
Duke Kahanamoku

Out of the water, I am nothing.
Duke Kahanamoku

I have never seen snow and do not know what winter means.
Duke Kahanamoku

Every day of the year where the water is 76, day and night, and the waves roll high, I take my sled, without runners, and coast down the face of the big waves that roll in at Waikiki.
Duke Kahanamoku

Don't talk - keep it in your heart.
Duke Kahanamoku

I have never coasted down a hill of frozen rain.
Duke Kahanamoku


Jean Rhys Quotes
English - Novelist August 24, 1894 - May 14, 1979

I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any.
Jean Rhys

Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
Jean Rhys

Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.
Jean Rhys

I often want to cry. That is the only advantage women have over men - at least they can cry.
Jean Rhys


Malcolm Cowley Quotes
American - Critic August 24, 1898 - March 27, 1989

Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.
Malcolm Cowley

They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.
Malcolm Cowley

Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.
Malcolm Cowley

Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens.
Malcolm Cowley

It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel.
Malcolm Cowley

Age is not different from earlier life as long as you're sitting down.
Malcolm Cowley


Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
Argentinian - Poet August 24, 1899 - June 14, 1986


Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
Jorge Luis Borges

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
Jorge Luis Borges

Life itself is a quotation.
Jorge Luis Borges

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
Jorge Luis Borges

Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.
Jorge Luis Borges

In general, every country has the language it deserves.
Jorge Luis Borges

I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.
Jorge Luis Borges

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
Jorge Luis Borges

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
Jorge Luis Borges

The original is unfaithful to the translation.
Jorge Luis Borges

My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
Jorge Luis Borges

Reality is not always probable, or likely.
Jorge Luis Borges

I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
Jorge Luis Borges

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
Jorge Luis Borges

The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
Jorge Luis Borges

To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
Jorge Luis Borges

One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
Jorge Luis Borges

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
Jorge Luis Borges

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
Jorge Luis Borges

Life and death have been lacking in my life.
Jorge Luis Borges

Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.
Jorge Luis Borges

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
Jorge Luis Borges

The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future.
Jorge Luis Borges

Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.
Jorge Luis Borges

The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
Jorge Luis Borges

There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite.
Jorge Luis Borges

To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
Jorge Luis Borges

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
Jorge Luis Borges

In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects.
Jorge Luis Borges

Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.
Jorge Luis Borges

The central problem of novel-writing is causality.
Jorge Luis Borges


Howard Zinn Quotes
American - Historian August 24, 1922 - January 27, 2010

There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.
Howard Zinn

Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane.
Howard Zinn

If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.
Howard Zinn

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism. -
Howard Zinn

In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy follows Machiavelli.
Howard Zinn

We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children.
Howard Zinn

Most wars, after all, present themselves as humanitarian endeavors to help people.
Howard Zinn

When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war.
Howard Zinn

One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression. Howard Zinn Freedom, War, Expression If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates.
Howard Zinn

War itself is the enemy of the human race.
Howard Zinn