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

"Baseball is something more than a game to an American boy; it is his training field for life’s work"

"There is no chance of night baseball ever being popular in the bigger cities"

"Past time is finite, future time is infinite"

"The universe is unfolding as it should"

"The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons"

"Science is the one human activity that is totally progressive"

"Wisdom cannot be directly transmitted, and does not readily accumulate through the ages"

"I usually start with a repulsive character and go on from there"

"The pathways of crime are clearly marked. There's a double-cross on every corner"

"I decided that if the police couldn't catch the gangsters, I'd create a fellow who could"

"Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper"

"They have been playing golf for 800 years and nobody has satisfactorily said why"

"New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world"

"The South is one of those kingdoms of the mind, like India or Scotland, that are neat and understandable only to people who have never been there"

"Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men"

"Las Vegas is every-mans cut-rate Babylon"

"Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence"

"Hope is a song in a weary throat"

"What is often called exceptional ability is nothing more than persistent endeavour"

"One person plus one typewriter constitutes a movement"

"Gaiety is one of the most important elements I brought to fashion. I brought it through colour"

"When a man has seen the aerodynamic shape of a Caravelle jet at an airport, he doesn't need aerodynamic furniture"

"It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics"

"The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is"

"Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged"

"There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice"

"Sentiment is for those who don't know what to do next"

"Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself"

"Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end"

"Think not of what you see, but what it took to produce what you see"

"A fractal is a way of seeing infinity"

"The world has not been designed for the convenience of mathematicians"

"One of the persons most baffled by my own work was myself"

"My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact"

"Some men see the world as it is and say 'Why?' I see the world as it could be and say, 'Why not'?"

"Unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government"

"The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country"

"Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it"

"Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies"

"Hogan's Heroes' lasted longer than the war"

"I abhor grades - if a child does his best, that's all that should be asked"

"As technology advances in complexity and scope, fear becomes more primitive"

"I don’t want your candor. I want your soul in a silver thimble"

"I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version"

"Now he's really pleased that he's doing something that's causing me a lot of consternation; He's ringing my bell"

"Transgender discrimination is the civil rights issue of our time"

"The measure of a man isn't just the road he's traveled; it's the choices he's made along the way"

"There's a lot of different forms of communication, but music is absolutely the purest one"

"There ain't no revolution, only evolution, but every time I'm in Georgia I eat a peach for peace"

"Jerry Garcia could walk on water. He could do anything any man could ever do. He's a prince"

"Nostalgia is a powerful feeling; it can drown out anything"

"My attitude is always let it keep rolling"

"Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping"

"I love Spain. I go back two or three times a year usually to visit friends and ride horses"

"I grew up on the beaches, and I always found it kind of funny that it's considered decent if you cover three tiny spots with pieces of fabric"

"I thought I would have a quiet pint ... and about 17 noisy ones"

"The city of angels? It's the city of devils. The city of smiling cobras"

"I've been forced to deal with my character assassination"

"Because of the incredible reputation I have, people find me exciting to watch on film"

"I was a total sci-fi geek. Star Wars was my ultimate favorite"

"I hope Hong Kong and Asia wants to hire American Asian actresses as much as Hollywood has been hiring Chinese actors from Asia"

"If marijuana kills all my brain cells, then how come I can still hear them all talking to me?"

"If you have a dream, just lie about it. Lie your way unto your dreams"

"In prison, inmates sometimes use Cheetos and grape juice as makeup. I wouldn't use that beauty regimen around Britney Spears - she might lick your face off!"

"I'm a huge fan of Billy Idol. I spiked my hair every day like him in 7th and 8th grade"

"Country music has always been the best shrink that 15 bucks can buy"

"Don't set your goals to be a star. Set your goals to be the best that you can be and go from there"