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

"I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized"

"Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!"

"I know not whether, in the eyes of the world, a brilliant death is not preferred to an obscure life of rectitude. Most men are remembered as they died, and not as they lived"

"Provoking, isn't it? that when one is most in need of sensible words, one finds them not"

"God makes stars. I just produce them"

"Ninety percent of the art of living consists of getting along with people you cannot stand"

"Don't pay any attention to the critics - don't even ignore them"

"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on"

"No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life"

"Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden"

"Be Black, buy Black, think Black, and all else will take care of itself"

"Hunger is not debatable"

"It is better to be looked over than overlooked"

"Sex is emotion in motion"

"Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?"

"Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly"

"I used to be Snow White, but I drifted"

"Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired"

"I'm the guy they used to call 'Deep Throat'!"

"There is nothing worse than having your personal problems become somebody else's entertainment"

"I'm really honestly terrified about how much I should tell and how much I should still keep secret"

"It takes two hands to clap"

"You are who you choose to be"

"Where white is black and black is white, I won"

"We make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities"

"I never walk into a place I don't know how to walk out of"

"Better to be king for a night than a schmuck for a lifetime"

"If you don't go, you'll never know"

"If you don't co-operate you're gonna suffer from fistophobia"

"Life's too short to be a Go-Go for twenty years"

"Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude"

"When everything gets answered, it's fake"

"What's important is self-appreciation"

"I don't want anyone messing with my dirt"

"I’ll never forget the club or him I don’t see Arsenal without Arsene Wenger"

"I am not mad I am just passionate"