Todays Dead List 08/16/2008

The Dead List August 16th, 2008

“Suspect all extraordinary and groundless civilities.”

• Thomas Fuller
  (06/19/1608 – 08/16/1661)
  English writer

“If you want to go east, don’t go west.”

• Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
  (02/18/1836 – 08/16/1886)
  Indian philosopher

“As Duke Ellington once said, ‘The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Elkton.’”

• Babe Ruth
  (02/06/1895 – 08/16/1948)
  US MLB HOF (the actual quote, falsely attributed to the Duke of Wellington, was “The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton”)

“What most people don’t seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.”

• Margaret Mitchell
  (11/08/1900 – 08/16/1949)
  US writer (Gone With the Wind)

“The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion.”

• Douglas McGarel Hogg, Lord Hailsham
  (02/28/1872 – 08/16/1950)
  English politician

“This is the most uncomfortable coffin I’ve ever been in.”

• Bela Lugosi
  (10/20/1882 – 08/16/1956)
  Hungarian actor, to Ed Wood on one of his movie sets

“It is my indignant opinion that 90 percent of the moving pictures exhibited in America are so vulgar, witless and dull that it is preposterous to write about them in any publication not intended to be read while chewing gum.”

• Wolcott Gibbs
  (03/15/1902 – 08/16/1958)
  US writer

“I never trust a fighting man who doesn’t smoke or drink.”

• Admiral William Frederick Halsey
  (10/30/1882 – 08/16/1959)
  US military

“I don’t know anything about music. In my line you don’t have to.”

• Elvis Aron Presley
  (01/08/1935 – 08/16/1977)
  US singer, rock’n’roll icon (father of Lisa Marie)

“I don’t know anything about music. In my line you don’t have to.”

• Elvis Aron Presley
  (01/08/1935 – 08/16/1977)
  US singer, rock’n’roll icon (father of Lisa Marie)

“So long and thanks for all the fish.”

• Shamu
  (01/01/1961 – 08/16/1971)
  Orca Killer Whale Performer

“If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning.”

• Idi Amin Dada
  (01/01/1926 – 08/16/2003)
  African dictator

“In no other society do they have one person play with all four limbs.”

• Max Roach
  (01/10/1925 – 08/16/2007)
  US drummer