Todays Dead List 08/14/2008

The Dead List August 14th, 2008

“A politician will do anything to keep his job—even become a patriot.”

• William Randolph Hearst
  (04/29/1863 – 08/14/1951)
  US newspaper magnate

“Grub first, then ethics.”

• Bertolt Brecht
  (02/10/1898 – 08/14/1956)
  German playwright

“The first time I met and embraced Judy Garland, it made pharmaceutical history.”

• Oscar Levant
  (12/27/1906 – 08/14/1972)
  US composer, pianist

“God knows she had plenty of practice.”

• J. B. Priestly
  (09/13/1894 – 08/14/1984)
  English writer, hearing that Mrs. Shaw was a ‘good listener’

“I never thought that much about my playing. I was adequate.”

• Roy Buchanan
  (09/23/1939 – 08/14/1988)
  US guitarist

“People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.”

• Elias Canetti
  (07/25/1905 – 08/14/1994)
  Bulgarian writer

“Child, when hard luck fall it just keep fallin’.”

• Alice Childress
  (10/12/1920 – 08/14/1994)
  US writer

“Diz (Dizzy Dean), you’ve watched this pitcher out there for four innings, and he’s doing a great job. What would you say he’s been throwing out there?” Dean replied, “Well Pee Wee, I have been watching him for four innings and I believe that’s a baseball he’s throwin.”

• Harold Henry “Pee Wee” Reese
  (07/123/1918 – 08/14/1999)
  US MLB HOF and Champion Marble Player

“We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end.”

• Lane Kirkland
  (03/12/1922 – 08/14/1999)
  US union leader, on labor disputes

“If you really think about the horror of the world, the only suitable attitude seems to be to reject it.”

• Czeslaw Milosz
  (06/30/1911 – 08/14/2004)
  Lithuanian writer