The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. – George Bernard Shaw, born July 26, 1856

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists. – Eric Hoffer, born July 25, 1898

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done. – Amelia Earhart, born July 24, 1897

“She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.” ― Raymond Chandler, born July 23, 1888 (“Farewell, My Lovely”)

I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked. – Oscar de la Renta, born July 22, 1932

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. – Ernest Hemingway, born July 21, 1899 (“A Farewell to Arms”)

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things. – Edmund Hillary, born July 20, 1919

The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment. – Herbert Marcuse, born July 19, 1898

There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. – Nelson Mandela, born July 18, 1918

I admit, I have a tremendous sex drive. My boyfriend lives forty miles away. – Phyllis Diller, born July 17, 1917

The kids today, they think they can dance with their faces. – Ginger Rogers, born July 16, 1911

Practice what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know. – Rembrandt van Rijn, born July 15, 1606

If you play more than two chords, you're showing off. – Woody Guthrie, born July 14, 1912

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance. – Harrison Ford, born July 13, 1942

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. – Henry David Thoreau, born July 12, 1817

Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it. – John Quincy Adams, born July 11, 1767

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes. – Marcel Proust, born July 10, 1871

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist. – David Hockney, born July 9, 1937

All architects want to live beyond their deaths. – Philip Johnson, born July 8, 1906

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are? --- Satchel Paige, born July 7, 1906

Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly? – Frida Kahlo, born July 6, 1907

Nobody ever lost a dollar by underestimating the taste of the American public. ― P.T. Barnum, born July 5, 1810

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. – Nathaniel Hawthorne, born July 4, 1804

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them. – Franz Kafka, born July 3, 1883

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go. – Hermann Hesse, born July 2, 1877

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love. – Diana, Princess of Wales, born July 1, 1961

If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people aren't willing to do. -- Michael Phelps, born June 30, 1985

I think the age of exploration is just beginning, not ending, on our planet. – Robert Ballard, born June 30, 1942

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, born June 29, 1900

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, born June 28, 1712

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. – Helen Keller, born June 27, 1880

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free. – Pearl S. Buck, born June 25, 1892

Political language . . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. – Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell), born June 25, 1903

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself. – Henry Ward Beecher, born June 24, 1813

The only unnatural sex act is that which you cannot perform. – Alfred Kinsey, born June 23, 1894

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end. – Kris Kristofferson, born June 22, 1936

Everything has been figured out, except how to live. – Jean-Paul Sartre, born June 21, 1905

It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper. – Errol Flynn, born June 20, 1909

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it. ― Blaise Pascal, born June 19, 1623

I don't work at being ordinary. – Paul McCartney, born June 18, 1942

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal. – Igor Stravinsky, born June 17, 1882

Another fine mess you've gotten me into. – Stan Laurel, born June 16, 1890

Never knowing my right foot from my left / My hat from my glove / I'm too misty and too much in love – Erroll Garner, born June 15, 1921 (“Misty”)

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall. – Che Guevara, born June 14, 1928

We must laugh and we must sing, / We are blest by everything, / Everything we look upon is blest. – W.B. Yeats, born June 13, 1865

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. – Anne Frank, born June 12, 1929

I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer. – Richard Strauss, born June 11, 1864

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. – Judy Garland, born June 10, 1922

I get no kick from champagne. / Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all – Cole Porter, born June 9, 1891

I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. ― Frank Lloyd Wright, born June 8, 1867