Iconic Birthday Quotes From The Famous And Infamous Born On This Day In History

"Evil be to him who evil thinks"

"Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking"

"He who stops being better stops being good"

"Subtlety may deceive you; Integrity never will"

"No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going"

"Paint me as I am. If you leave out the scars and wrinkles, I will not pay you a shilling"

"In the new era, thought itself will be transmitted by radio"

"Every day sees humanity more victorious in the struggle with space and time"

"Have I done the world good, or have I added a menace?"

"A wireless device can deliver a message through the wilderness"

"Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do"

"There is no God and Dirac is his Prophet"

"I have done a terrible thing, I have postulated a particle that cannot be detected" (about Neutrino)

"The best that most of us can hope to achieve in physics is simply to misunderstand at a deeper level"

"This isn't right. This isn't even wrong"

"Everything comes to him who knows how to wait"

"Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages"

"Our Nation has had a long and unfortunate history of sex discrimination"

"We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans"

"There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes"

"Law cannot stand aside from the social changes around it"

"Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts"

"To be credible we must be truthful"

"The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer"

"A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves"

"Sir Winston Churchill: He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle"

"I am doomed. I do not want to die. But I am not insane. I was framed to kill Oswald"

"I want to tell the truth, and I can't tell it here ... My life is in danger here"

"The people who had so much to gain, and had such an ulterior motive for putting me in the position I'm in, will never let the true facts come above board to the world"

"Every religion asserts an order of truth and every other order is regarded as a lie"

"Man lives in time but his life transcends time"

"Democracy is the great love of the failures and cowards of life"

"It isn't where you came from, its where you're going that counts"

"Coming through the years, and finding that I not only have just the fans of my day, but the young ones of today - that's what it means, it means it was worth all of it"

"I think all the fabulous places I've been, the wonderful things that have happened for me, the great people I've met - that ought to make a story"

"I guess what everyone wants more than anything else is to be loved. And to know that you loved me for my singing is too much for me"

"You let it go by, even if you really would like to choke 'em. By smiling, I think I've made more friends than if I was the other way"

"I sing with my eyes closed, and my whole mind is concentrated on what I want to do. Any little noise can throw me"

"Some kids in Italy call me 'Mama Jazz; I thought that was so cute. As long as they don't call me Grandma Jazz"

"I don't want to say the wrong thing, which I always do but I think I do better when I sing"

"She was an unusual woman [Marilyn Monroe], a little ahead of her times, and didn't know it"

"What everyone wants more than anything else is to be loved"

"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do"

"I stole everything I ever heard, but mostly I stole from the horns"

"Forgive me if I don't have all the words. Maybe I can sing it and you'll understand"

"The only thing better than singing is more singing"

"I sing like I feel"

"Rugby is a game for the mentally deficient.... Who else but an Englishman could invent an oval ball?"

"I have a very long list of players I like. I enjoy watching the games even if I like both teams"

"We played a game on the USS Enterprise in 1966; We just played on every place you could possibly dribble a basketball"

"I’ve played in over 16,000 career games - an NBA player would need to play 160 games per year for 100 years to achieve my record"

"I hate anyone who beats me"

"To marry a photographer who charges around the world with the most beautiful girls is not a reliable prospect"

"My parents opposed me becoming a photographer, but I think that was because they thought if I felt strongly enough to go against their wishes, I might have a chance of succeeding at what I did"

"They naturally assume that we are all rich. We are - but not in cash. We inherit responsibilities, burdens; and you can't sell what you've got"

"Memories like that make me realise what a privileged life I have had, despite the emotional ups and downs" [recalling the swinging 1960's]

"My greatest thrill is that I am now shooting pictures for the British Tourist Board; at last something I am proud to identify with"

"I have really worked at being a photographer. I've used pseudonyms to make sure that it is my work and not my name that counts"

"I might have broken a few hearts but my own was pretty much intact. That shows how spoiled I was"

"It's usually a disadvantage to be a peer if you have a profession. People don't take you seriously"

"The 1960's were good for the upper classes because the barriers were broken down for us as well and we all came into contact with people we wouldn't normally have met"

"I used to think the lot of photographers like Bailey, Donovan and Duffy was easier than mine"

"You need the model as much as he or she needs you. If they don’t want to help you, it will be a very dull picture"

"I was very self-centred and had little thought for other people. It got too good too quickly"

"Some models have thrown tantrums and been quite vile but I'm not naming names"

"I'd like to be taken seriously before it's too late"

"Until my marriage break-up I'd never had any form of emotional upset"

"I am happier taking photos than doing anything else in life"

"I might have broken a few hearts, but my own was pretty much intact"

"I don't need bodyguards. I'm from the South Bronx"

"I'm an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools"

"Vanity is my favourite sin"

"The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don't have a movie"

"It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart"

"ABBA wasn't a big intellectual thing. We were a pop group"

"We were sincere and devoted to what we did"

"Freedom from indoctrination ought to be a basic human right for all children"

"Coming to England is like going home"

"I'm so incredibly tired of giving respect to a lot of delusions and crazy ideas just because they are regarded as religions"

"We don't need this religious cosmopolitanism. It's no good"

"Condoleezza Rice is a very cruel, offended woman who lacks men's attention"

"Quality without results is pointless. Results without quality is boring"

"If I wanted you to understand it, I would have explained it better"

"Playing football is very simple, but playing simple football is the hardest thing there is"

"Every disadvantage has its advantage"

"People who are not of my level can’t affect my integrity"

"I think I must have a form of sexuality which is rougher than the average"

"There have been 10 times that I’ve found myself in a situation where a woman threw herself at me"

"During libertine afternoons like these, things happen pretty quickly. It often happens that I have sex with women I've never met"

"I had no idea at the time that these experiences were so unpleasant as the women now say"

"Do you want to discover a magnificent naughty club in Madrid with me and some equipment?"

"As soon as people hear my voice and synthesizer together they hear Erasure"

"If you're male and you're black you're not going to get much play in a gay club"

"Being HIV-positive does not mean that you have AIDS"

"There are definitely HIV-positive people who meet other HIV-positive men, and like still having unprotected sex"

"In the art world, Monet means money"

"I still feel like I've crashed the party"

"You can't do anything unless they let you. It's a dictatorship. They're little dictators in their crib"

"It opens your eyes in this town, it's amazing. It's taught me who I don't want to be" (about Los Angeles)

"I write him six-page emails about my political rage and he writes back" (about George Clooney)

"I believe in love, but I don't sit around waiting for it. I buy houses"

"Kids like chaos, in an interesting way. I think kids like to push buttons in adults"

"I know sour, which allows me to appreciate the sweet"

"I wanted to be looked at for the skateboarder that I was. I didn't want to be the 36-year-old skateboarder who's still holding on"

"Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best"

"If we win, I'm happy. The rest of it is just stuff"