Ludovico Ariosto Quotes
Poet September 8, 1474 - July 6, 1533

From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me.
Ludovico Ariosto

We soon believe the things we would believe.
Ludovico Ariosto

Such fire was not by water to be drowned, nor he his nature changed by changing ground.
Ludovico Ariosto

Man proposes, and God disposes.
Ludovico Ariosto

When the devil grows old he turns hermit.
Ludovico Ariosto

Nature made him, and then broke the mold.
Ludovico Ariosto

They think they have God Almighty by the toe.
Ludovico Ariosto

Who seems most hideous when adorned the most.
Ludovico Ariosto


Siegfried Sassoon Quotes
English - Poet September 8, 1886 - September 1, 1967


In me the tiger sniffs the rose.
Siegfried Sassoon

I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed.
Siegfried Sassoon

Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.
Siegfried Sassoon

I believe that the purpose for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to change them, and that, had this been done, the objects which actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation.
Siegfried Sassoon

Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives.
Siegfried Sassoon

I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust.
Siegfried Sassoon

I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the War is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it.
Siegfried Sassoon

Man, it seemed, had been created to jab the life out of Germans.
Siegfried Sassoon

I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers.
Siegfried Sassoon


Claude Pepper Quotes
American - Politician September 8, 1900 - May 30, 1989


Life is like riding a bicycle: you don't fall off unless you stop pedaling.
Claude Pepper

Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.
Claude Pepper

If more politicians in this country were thinking about the next generation instead of the next election, it might be better for the United States and the world.
Claude Pepper

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, 'At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.'
Claude Pepper

One has the right to be wrong in a democracy.
Claude Pepper

The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.
Claude Pepper


Alexander Mackendrick Quotes
American - Director September 8, 1912 - December 22, 1993

The best way to learn how to work with actors is to have had experience of trying to act yourself - it will teach you humility if nothing else.
Alexander Mackendrick

Nationality is a very curious thing. The blood is Scots and the temperament is Scots, but I am, in fact, 100% American.
Alexander Mackendrick

Children are often better actors than adults because they have a greater capacity for believing in a situation.
Alexander Mackendrick

The great directors managed to dissolve and disappear into the work. They make other people look good.
Alexander Mackendrick


Sid Caesar Quotes
American - Actor September 8, 1922 - February 12, 2014

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.
Sid Caesar

The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.
Sid Caesar

The things I see now on TV and in movies are so outlandish. Kids doing rude things with pies! And the language that they use! It's being outrageous for the sake of being outrageous. I can't watch it. It turns me off.
Sid Caesar

The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one.
Sid Caesar

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.
Sid Caesar

When we could split the screen, it was like 'Wow!'.
Sid Caesar

After all those years of doing a live, hour-and-a-half show every week, I've got nothing more I need to prove.
Sid Caesar

When I did comedy I made fun of myself. If there was a buffoon, I played the buffoon.
Sid Caesar

If I don't believe it, I don't care.
Sid Caesar

People come up to me and they thank me: 'I thank you for the many, many hours of laughter.'
Sid Caesar

If you listen to a language for 15 minutes, you know the rhythm and song.
Sid Caesar

Every language has its own music.
Sid Caesar


Marianne Wiggins Quotes
American - Author Born: September 8, 1947

I write on a visual canvas, 'seeing' a scene in my thoughts before translating it into language, so I'm a visual junkie.
Marianne Wiggins

I was a very, very old child. Sometimes you meet a child who seems more like an adult. I think I was that type of child because I had a nearly fatal kidney disease when I was 9 years old.
Marianne Wiggins

I'm fascinated by the narrative of geology, and I'm a veritable pack rat of a collector on the road. I keep a rock hammer in my car.
Marianne Wiggins

Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words inside my thoughts.
Marianne Wiggins

Asking anyone what she or he is reading is a necessary part of conversation, exchanging news. So I take recommendations from friends - and I always pass along a book I've loved.
Marianne Wiggins

I don't remember being a child, and that's why I think I'm so child-like now in my unending curiosity and approach to life.
Marianne Wiggins

I take the world very personally. I take history personally; I want to place myself in the larger context.
Marianne Wiggins

I will never turn to God.
Marianne Wiggins