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

"The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble"

"Architecture aims at Eternity"

"A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth"

"A thousand Dreams within me softly burn"

"True alchemy lies in this formula: Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse"

"Genius is the recovery of childhood at will"

"We do not learn from experience...we learn from reflecting on experience"

"Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes"

"All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate"

"Stand up and take your dissonance like a man"

"The fabric of existence weaves itself whole"

"Every great inspiration is but an experiment"

"I don't write music for sissy ears"

"To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula"

"Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman"

"People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants"

"I don't have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension"

"It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more"

"Women have a predestination to suffering"

"That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not"

"I will not be tortured, I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!"

"Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings"

"It is evidently known, beyond contradiction, that New Orleans is the cradle of Jazz and I, myself, happened to be the creator"

"When we were doing routines, it was like a love affair"

"Let it be known, let it be shown, let poetry be read by our youths. One must create a chance of discovery and of novelty"

"Nothing much frightens me"

"You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it"

"An economist is a man who knows a hundred ways of making love but doesn't know any women"

"If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it"

"The things that matter most are not things"

"I don't know whether this is the best of times or the worst of times, but I assure you it's the only time you've got. You can either sit on your expletive deleted or pick a daisy"

"A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide"

"If I had played my career hitting singles like Pete Rose, I'd wear a dress"

"You never have to wait long, or look far, to be reminded of how thin the line is between being a hero or a goat"

"We are the hurdles we leap to be ourselves"

"Impressionism means taking inspiration directly from nature, trusting your senses rather than what you think you know"

"Home Alone was a movie, not an alibi"

"You could have a hit in California that no one had heard of in Oklahoma"

"I didn't really have a plan. I just wanted a hit"

"I always knew how to pitch"

"Poetry's medium is not merely light as air, it is air: vital and deep as ordinary breath"

"When I had no roof I made audacity my roof"

"The ideas that mean the most to you will feel true long before you can quite formulate them or justify them"

"Successful women are not liked. I think the biggest danger for women in science is colleagues who are not as good as you are"

"Sunday, the day for the language of leisure"

"Art and order, the relatives that refuse to relate"

"Love points the way. Desire is its ignorant advisor"

"Very few women wait for Mr. Right. Most women take the first and worst Mr. Wrong"

"Trust is fine, but control is better"

"I don't believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or she is putting out there"

"It's the only true magic I know. It's not pulling a rabbit out of a hat; it's real. It's your soul floating out to theirs"

"To be a film-maker, you have to lead. You have to be psychotic in your desire to do something. People always like the easy route"

"It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations"

"If you have to be persuaded about something, you shouldn't do it"

"Common sense rules over everything. That's what I learned from selling crack"

"Sometimes a loss is the best thing that can happen. It teaches you what you should have done next time"

"I move with the time. Whatever's happening in time, I'm in"

"If it's flipping hamburgers at McDonald's, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft"

"Miracles happen. They have happened to me and they are happening to you. You need only look to the people in your lives in order to see them"

"Guys have a level of insecurity and vulnerability that's exponentially bigger than you think"

"With the primal urge to be alpha comes extreme heartbreak. The harder we fight, the harder we fall"