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

"We do not doubt to assert, that air does not serve for the motion of the lungs, but rather to communicate something to the blood"

"It is very likely that it is the fine nitrous particles, with which the air abounds, that are communicated to the blood through the lungs"

"I gathered that a thermometer might be perhaps constructed with mercury"

"The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them"

"We will not have failure - only success and new learning"

"Great events make me quiet and calm; It is only trifles that irritate my nerves"

"We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist"

"Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife"

"Law never is, but is always about to be"

"Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances"

"Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more"

"Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning"

"Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice"

"The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet"

"Hypnosis is not sleep, … it has no special relationship to sleep, and the whole concept of sleep when applied to hypnosis obscures the situation"

"Let the psychological theorist begin with neurological postulates"

"We must be extremely careful to insure the rigor of our deductions"

"Sound scientific theory has usually led not only to prediction but to control"

"Sometimes the deduction failure may appear to be the result of ignoring some law not yet formulated"

"What I really wanted was an occupation allied to philosophy in the sense of involving theory"

"Learn to listen with your fingers"

"A little wine tones up the system just right. One cannot always be serious. There must be some sparkle too"

"A great many persons have thought that my confidence reflected egotism in its worst form"

"Under these absurd and antiquated amateur rulings, only a wealthy person can compete"

"In the twelve years I have been champion I have earned literally millions of francs for tennis and have paid thousands of francs in entrance fees to be allowed to do so"

"Should I smile at the prospect of actual poverty and continue to earn a fortune - for whom?"

"In my whole lifetime I have not earned $5,000 - not one cent of that by my specialty, my life study - tennis"

"When the army shoots, it shoots to hit"

"All those who would be directly concerned with the practical aspects of the work should exercise utmost caution"

"You are to uphold law and justice without fear or favour, not to bend the law and stretch it to please me or anyone else" (said to Maung Maung in 1965)

"If the disturbances were intended to challenge us we will fight sword with sword and spear with spear"

"Let us heal rather than reopen our wounds"

"Federalism is impossible, It will destroy the union"

"Courage is one step ahead of fear"

"We must take the profit out of prejudice"

"Racism is like high blood pressure - the person who has it doesn't know he has it until he drops over with a God damned stroke"

"My son gave me the permission to accept my success"

"I began to mold Radar into a more innocent, naïve character as contrast to the other characters" (About his character in MASH)

"Family, to me, became the most important thing... I was not available as a father because of my work"

"I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid"

"Darkness restores what light cannot repair"

"Geography blended with time equals destiny"

"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them"

"Life is a game with many rules but no referee"

"Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse"

"The moment that you place blame somewhere, you undermine your resolve to change anything"

"Man is what he reads"

"Bad literature is a form of treason"

"I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me"

"Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain"

"Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can't sing, I call a poem"

"I'm not the kind of cat that's going to cut off an ear if I can't do something"

"Instinct is what makes a genius a genius"

"Truth is like a waterslide - only fun when it's slippery and wet"

"You've got to lose your passion for dumbness"

"Money doesn't talk, it swears"

"You've got to know business before you go to show business"

"Love is demonstration, not declaration"

"Every exit is an entrance to someplace else"

"Many a false step is made standing still"

"I got a doctorate. I am Doctor Patti"

"As a person, he was wonderful. He really was a great person. He was full of life. He had a great sense of humor"

"I don't want to be someone's entertainment"

"L.A. is a very difficult town to find someone, because people are too fickle and they have other agendas"

"I realized I couldn't give him the kind of adulation he got from his fans, and he needed that adulation desperately. Without it he was nothing"

"Elvis was my first love, he'll be my last"

"It's funny how a film about a murderous old English toff can help you"

"Other people have a much better idea of what I might do than I"

"We seem to have reached the age where life stops giving us things and starts taking them away"

"I'd like to go back and live in Shakespeare's London"

"It's fatal to talk about acting. It sounds faintly ridiculous if you start analysing it"

"Even at drama school if there was a part of some eastern European thug it would be me"

"To be challenged means to strive"

"When you're kind of my size and look the way I do, leading man romantic leads aren't going to come your way"

"I love being added to that list of English actors playing villains"

"I guess somewhere in the history of American film and television someone decided that the English accent sounded somehow villainous"

"Art is a more trustworthy expression of God than religion"

"Reading inspirational and motivational quotes daily is like taking my vitamins"

"With time the unbearable becomes shocking, becomes sad, and finally becomes poignant"

"I adhere to the religion of art and music and small children"

"It was never too late to undo who you had become"

"Having a leading man who is actually prettier than you are is quite upsetting"

"Having a career is a bit like navigating an Atlantic crossing"

"Successful films are very dangerous things"

"Everyone loves to hate a spin doctor"

"Why be simple when you can be complicated?"

"There is no force more powerful than that of an unbridled imagination"

"Never say love is "like" anything... It isn't"

"Nostalgia is an involuntary emotion. I think it's just a natural human response to loss"

"Dreams are effluvia, bodily information, to be shared only with intimates and doctors"

"During my own adolescence, my imagination, the kingdom inside my own skull, was my sole source of refuge, my fortress of solitude, at times my prison"

"All novels are sequels; Influence is bliss"

"Beauty can be its own prison"

"One of the reasons people find me a believable actor is that I don't seem like one of the gods from Olympus"

"Surprising people is the key to career longevity for someone like me"

"I'm just trying to become the Michael Caine/Gene Hackman of my generation"

"I had a blues band in L.A., but I realized I was too optimistic to play the blues. I did not have the misery in my heart that the blues required"

"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think that sardines will be thrown into the sea"

"Behind the windows of Manchester, there is an insane love of football, of celebration and of music"

"You may find another Beckham or Ronaldo, but never ever will you find another Sir Alex Ferguson"

"The ball is like a woman, she loves to be caressed"

"A life built on memories is not much of a life"

"In football you have an adversary; in cinema that adversary is yourself"

"I would love him to save me a place in his team - George Best that is, not God"