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Salvador Dali
May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989
At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marqués de Dalí de Pubol, known as Salvador Dalí, was a prominent Spanish Catalan ...
B. C. Forbes
May 14, 1880 – May 6, 1954
He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
Bertie Charles Forbes (May 14, 1880 - May 6, 1954) was a Scottish financial journalist and author who founded Forbes Magazine. He was born ...
Jiddu Krishnamurti
May 12, 1895 – February 17, 1986
We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.
Jiddu Krishnamurti was an Indian speaker and writer on philosophical and spiritual subjects. In his early life he was groomed to be the new ...
Bobby Darin
May 14, 1936 – December 20, 1973
A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his.
Bobby Darin was an American singer, songwriter, and actor of film and television. He performed in a range of music genres, including pop, ...
Max Frisch
May 15, 1911 – April 4, 1991
Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.
Max Rudolf Frisch was a Swiss playwright and novelist, regarded as highly representative of German-language literature after World War II. ...
Karl Barth
May 10, 1886 – December 10, 1968
Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
Karl Barth was a Swiss Reformed theologian who is often regarded as the greatest Protestant theologian of the twentieth century. His ...
Martha Graham
May 11, 1894 – April 1991
'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
Martha Graham was an American modern dancer and choreographer whose influence on dance has been compared with the influence Picasso had on ...
Merton Miller
May 16, 1923 – June 3, 2000
Arbitrage proof has since been widely used throughout finance and economics.
Merton Howard Miller was an American economist, and the co-author of the Modigliani–Miller theorem, which proposed the irrelevance of ...
John Clayton
May 11, 1954 – 1938
Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone.
John Travis Clayton (born May 11, 1954) is a National Football League (NFL) writer and reporter for ESPN. He is also a senior writer for ...
Florence Nightingale
May 12, 1820 – August 13, 1910
The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
Florence Nightingale, OM, RRC was a celebrated English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing. She came to ...
Jacqueline Cochran
May 11, 1906 – August 9, 1980
It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.
Lt. Col Jacqueline Cochran was a pioneer in the field of American aviation, considered to be one of the most gifted racing pilots of her ...
Isaac D'Israeli
May 11, 1766 – January 19, 1848
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
Isaac D'Israeli was a British writer, scholar and man of letters. He is best known for his essays, his associations with other men of ...
Richard P. Feynman
May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988
I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.
Richard Phillips Feynman was an American theoretical physicist known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, ...
Henry Cabot Lodge
May 12, 1850 – November 9, 1924
We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands.
Henry Cabot Lodge was an American Republican Senator and historian from Massachusetts. A PhD in history from Harvard, he was a long-time ...
Paul Tournier
May 12, 1898 – October 7, 1986
Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
Paul Tournier was a Swiss physician and author who had acquired a worldwide audience for his work in pastoral counseling. His ideas had a ...
Hal Borland
May 14, 1900 – February 22, 1978
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
Hal Borland was a well-known American author and journalist. In addition to writing several novels and books about the outdoors, he wrote ...
Clifton Paul Fadiman
May 15, 1904 – June 20, 1999
One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
Clifton P. "Kip" Fadiman (May 15, 1904 - June 20, 1999) was an American intellectual, author, editor, radio and television personality. ...
David O. Selznick
May 10, 1902 – June 22, 1965
I don't think I'm going to do any good work this morning.
David O. Selznick was an American film producer and film studio executive. He is best known for producing Gone with the Wind and Rebecca, ...
Sid Vicious
May 10, 1957 – February 2, 1979
I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.
Sid Vicious, born John Simon Ritchie, later named John Beverley, was an English bass guitarist and vocalist, most famous as a member of the ...
Irving Berlin
May 11, 1888 – September 22, 1989
Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Russian-Jewish origin. Widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American ...
George Edward Woodberry
May 12, 1855 – January 2, 1930
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
George Edward Woodberry, Litt. D., LL. D. (May 12, 1855 - 1930) was an American literary critic and poet.
Georges Braque
May 13, 1882 – August 31, 1963
Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.
Georges Braque was a major 20th-century French painter, collagist, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor. His most important contributions ...
Daphne du Maurier
May 13, 1907 – April 19, 1989
Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning DBE was an English author and playwright. Many of her works have been adapted into films, including ...
Tony Hancock
May 12, 1924 – June 24, 1968
It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.
Anthony John "Tony" Hancock was an English comedian and actor. Popular during the 1950s and early 1960s, he had a major success with his ...
Richard J. Daley
May 15, 1902 – December 20, 1976
Power is dangerous unless you have humility.
Richard Joseph Daley was an American politician who was the Mayor of Chicago for 21 years and chairman of the Cook County Democratic ...