Todays Dead List 08/13/2008

The Dead List August 13th, 2008

“One always has to spoil a picture a little bit, in order to finish it.”

• Eugene Delacroix
  (04/26/1798 – 08/13/1863)
  French painter

“I attribute my success to this—I never gave or took any excuse.”

• Florence Nightingale
  (05/12/1820 – 08/13/1910)
  English nurse

“When a woman ceases to alter the fashion of her hair, you guess that she has passed the crisis of her experience.”

• Mary Austin
  (09/09/1868 – 08/13/1934)
  US writer

“Go away. I’m all right.”

• H. G. Wells
  (09/21/1866 – 08/13/1946)
  English writer

“Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part.”

• Mickey Mantle
  (10/20/1931 – 08/13/1995)
  US MLB HOF

“Many aspects of my method are based on my feeling and experience. For instance, I always give my bird a generous butter massage before I put it in the oven. Why? Because I think the chicken likes it—and, more important, I like to give it.”

• Julia Child
  (08/15/1912 – 08/13/2004)
  US chef

“Behold the power of cheese” 

• Tony Jay
  (02/2/1933 – 08/13/2006)
  English Actor 

“I’ll never forget September sixth nineteen-fifty. I got a letter threatening me, Hank Bauer Yogi Berra and Johnny Mize It said if I showed up in uniform against the Red Sox I’d be shot. I turned the letter over to the FBI and told my manager Casey Stengel about it. You know what Casey did? He gave me a different uniform and gave mine to Billy Martin. Can you imagine that! Guess Casey thought it’d be better if Billy got shot.”

• Phil Rizzuto
  (09/25/1917 – 08/13/2007)
  US MLB HOF