July 30

Quotes of the day from previous years:

• On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament!], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. ~ Charles Babbage
• selected by Nanobug

2004

I just know that something good is going to happen. I don't know when — but just saying it could even make it happen. ~ Kate Bush (born 30 July 1958)

• selected by Kalki

2005

No coward soul is mine,
No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere:
I see Heaven's glories shine,
And Faith shines equal, arming me from Fear.
~ Emily Brontë ~ (born 30 July 1818)

• proposed by MosheZadka

2006

What am I singing?
A song of seeds
The food of love.
Eat the music.
~ Kate Bush ~

• selected by Kalki

2007

Just being alive
It can really hurt.
These moments given
Are a gift from time.
Just let us try
To give these moments back
To those we love
To those who will survive.
~ Kate Bush ~

• proposed by Kalki

2008

I don't know you,
And you don't know me.
It is this that brings us together.
~ Kate Bush ~

• proposed by Kalki

2009

Moving stranger,
Does it really matter,
As long as you're not afraid to feel?

Touch me, hold me.
How my open arms ache!
Try to fall for me.

~ Kate Bush ~

• proposed by Kalki

2010

Suggestions

Vain are the thousand creeds that move men's hearts: unutterably vain... ~ Emily Brontë (date of birth)

• 2 Kalki 18:11, 29 July 2007 (UTC) 3 Kalki 21:59, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
• 3 Zarbon 14:49, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

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With wide-embracing love
Thy Spirit animates eternal years,
Pervades and broods above,
Changes, sustains, dissolves, creates, and rears.

Though earth and moon were gone,
And suns and universes ceased to be,
And Thou wert left alone,
Every existence would exist in Thee.

There is not room for Death,
Nor atom that his might could render void:
Thou —THOU art Being and Breath,
And what THOU art may never be destroyed.
~ Emily Brontë ~

• 3 Kalki 21:59, 29 July 2005 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
• 1 Zarbon 14:49, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

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The first time that I appeared on stage, it scared me to death. I really didn't know what all the yelling was about. I didn't realize that my body was moving. It's a natural thing to me. So to the manager backstage I said, 'What'd I do? What'd I do?' And he said, 'Whatever it is, go back and do it again.

- Elvis Presley - Interview (March/April, 1972)

• 3 --Revera 09:47, 26 July 2008 (UTC) (30 July 1954 was the date Elvis Presley made his debut as a public performer).
• 2 Zarbon 15:09, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 23:49, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

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