Todays Dead List 08/08/2008

The Dead List August 8, 2008

“…And finds, with keen, discriminating sight,
Black’s not so black, nor white so very white.”

• George Canning
  (04/11/1770 – 08/08/1827)
  British PM

“Practical people would be more practical if they would take a little more time for dreaming.”

• J. P. McEvoy
  (01/10/1897 – 08/08/1958)
  US writer

“The idea of a series of items, following one another docilely, forms the only possible reasonable approach to life if you have to live it with a home and a husband and children, none of whom would dream of following one another docilely.”

• Shirley Jackson
  (12/14/1919 – 08/08/1965)
  US writer

“The best-read idiot in the world.”

• Louise Brooks
  (11/14/1906 – 08/08/1985)
  US actor, on herself

“I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there.”

• Maureen Reagan
  (01/04/1941 – 08/08/2001)
  US first family member (daughter of Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman; sister of Michael Reagan; step-daughter of Nancy Reagan)

“I used to resent ‘King Kong,’ but now I don’t fight it anymore. I realize that it is a classic, and I am pleased to be associated with it. Why, only recently an entire issue of a French magazine was devoted to discussing the picture from its artistic, moral and even religious aspects.”

• Fay Wray
  (09/15/1907 – 08/08/2004)
  US actor