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

"Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is"

"Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody"

"Strange to say what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition"

"As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me"

"He that will not stoop for a pin will never be worth a pound"

"It is pretty to see what money will do"

"I should be sorry if I only entertained them"

"Whether I was in my body or out of my body as I wrote it I know not. God knows"

"We too are primary existences ... not the satellites of men"

"Genuine learning has ever been said to give polish to man; why then should it not bestow added charm on women?"

"Females have been exposed to the contagion of wealth without the preservative of a good education"

"His disappointment has its source in a defective education, he looks with anxiety on his other daughters, whose minds, like lovely buds, are beginning to open"

"Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States"

"Children learn more from what you are than what you teach"

"There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise"

"A system cannot fail those it was never meant to protect"

"Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities"

"To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships"

"But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire"

"There was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency"

"The cause of war is preparation for war"

"There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know"

"Don't get excited. Obstacles make a better picture"

"This picture is going to be one of the biggest white elephants of all time"

"I will go only so far as to say that I knew what an atom was"

"A bright light filled the plane. The first shock-wave hit us. We were eleven and a half miles slant range from the atomic explosion but the whole airplane cracked and crinkled from the blast"

"We turned back to look at Hiroshima. The city was hidden by that awful cloud... mushrooming, terrible and incredibly tall"

"I don’t depict nudes from any sociological, cultural, or emotional intentions"

"My one intention is to always find new ways to make exciting paintings using the situation of the traditional nude"

"As pop art became linked with Coca-Cola and soup cans and road signs, I pulled back"

"I can’t talk about Matisse without talking about myself. He is the painter I most idolized and I still do"

"New ideas; I get so excited that I get uncomfortable. It almost feels dangerous, like I’m flirting with something dangerous"

"Art must be in constant change"

"Society has no business dictating morality"

"Henry Fonda's son: That's how everybody identified me until Easy Rider came along"

"I don't trust anybody who didn't inhale"

"I want to die in the saddle. I love writing, producing, acting, directing"

"Civilization has always been a bust"

"I dig my father. I wish he could open his eyes and dig me"

"I just like the blues better than rock 'n' roll"

"Hopefully at the end of the day they say I was a good bluesman. That's all I want"

"The blues was so big in the late '60s that it kinda wore itself out"

"Guitar. It's the only thing I've ever really been great at"

"My vocal influences were Ray Charles and Bobby Blue Bland"

"Good actresses can often accomplish miracles, and it is possible to be someone you've never been or will be"

"You are the strongest argument, yet, against cloning"

"You have to be the parent; You can't be their friend"

"When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someones motives are"

"It's time to bury the war hatchet and to forget where it lies"

"The fact is that the so-called coalition was formed on basis of political corruption, this coalition will be able to work only if the Communist Party will join it. Speaking about such a type of coalition, it is even more shameful"

"Ukraine is facing a serious threat of isolation as some local political forces want to put an end to democracy and democratic reforms in the country"

"I would like to express my gratitude to all countries that have recognized Holodomor politically and legally as a genocide against the Ukrainian nation"

"Putin dreams of reconstructing the Soviet empire under the name of Russia. He is so obsessed with this that he hasn't understood power balance"

"Ukraine is facing a serious threat of isolation as some local political forces want to end democracy and democratic reforms in the country"

"Two laboratories provided samples but not the Russian side. This, of course, limits the possibilities of the investigation process"

"Ukraine was proving a bad example for Russia, and a good example for Europe, and that was the problem"

"For Ukraine, money doesn't smell, no matter where it came from geographically"

"Our minds and our hands will be our keep"

"Our mothers and fathers want change. They worked all of their lives, but today live in destitution"

"Ukraine must once again be revered and respected by its citizens as well as the East and the West"

"The conviction of our Ukrainian nation is embedded in the pages of its history"

"We cannot be divided either by the languages we speak, by the faiths we profess or by the political views we choose"

"Globalization does not mean one culture and language, but rather a beautiful mosaic of many languages and cultures communicating and cooperating through effective instruments"

"I am deeply convinced that the democratic coalition was ruined by one thing alone; Human ambition"

"Oil and gas are not only hydrocarbons, unfortunately, they're also the stuff of politics"

"What does Putin fear the most? Solidarity, international solidarity"

"National interests were traded for political considerations"

"National interests were traded for political considerations"

"Russia had to have a pliant pro-Russian leader"

"Crimea isn't Russian; rather it is Ukrainian"

"The very thing you fear could be the best thing to ever happen to you"

"Regrets are born of paths never taken"

"Celebrate for a nanosecond"

"There's always an opportunity to make a difference"

"Try never to be the smartest person in the room. And if you are, I suggest you invite smarter people … or find a different room"

"You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream"

"There is no better catalyst to success than curiosity"

"Collaboration equals innovation"

"You can't keep doing the same thing and expect it to keep working"

"The idea of being all things to all people is a thing of the past"

"Don't spend so much time trying to choose the perfect opportunity, that you miss the right opportunity"

"Ignore the people who tell you it won't work, and hire people who embrace your vision"

"Anything that can be measured can be improved"

"Love the person not the potential"

"Love is the thing we were created for, yet it's the place we struggle the most"

"Don't worry that you're throwing away a memory. Your children will remember your praise more than they will remember the picture with macaroni and glitter glued on it"

"I'm not a perfect mom, but I'm perfect for my kids"

"I'm so not a celebrity"

"I get claustrophobic in a harness. I'd be a terrible superhero"

"They're naughty, all those writers - they mess around with people"

"I've become a bit of a homebody, I don't really go out much. Same in New York. My home could be anywhere but I love Glasgow"

"What I'm normally associated with are darker, more brooding roles"

"I was like a Borscht Belt comedian trapped in the body of a 6-year-old. I was channeling Jackie Mason at 7"

"I love polarizing people"

"Hollywood is the kind of place that takes what you do well in one thing and manufactures it so the joy can be taken out of it"

"While other kids were watching Jim Carrey and the likes in the '90s, I was watching Charlie Chaplin films, because I was a bit of a geek"

"I became obsessed with this idea of physical comedy"

"Religion is interesting because it brings out the best and the worst in humanity"

"They like to keep a low profile, because their vision of the future world order means a revolution in US foreign policy"

"Trump is a politician who has the backing of forces just as influential as those behind Clinton"

"If you sum up what acting is; It's just the ultimate expression of empathy"

"I love ambiguity. People are that way. People are very hard to work out. No one is just strong or just fragile"

"There's an immediacy of this day and age that doesn't lend itself to being committed to anything"

"I used to look like a deer in headlights on the red carpet. You step out of the car and it's bedlam"

"With Ricky Gervais, it's all shades of wrong, it's my kind of humour"

"I feel like an amazing part of life is that at any moment"

"Do you realize how much better the world would be if we all just treated each other the same way black dudes treat magicians?"

"One of the big things I miss about New York... it's Shake Shack, the burger place. I miss Shake Shack"

"Sometimes you gotta work a little, so you can ball a lot"

"I don't have any advice to give. I'm a curious observer"

"I never skimp on TV. I watch an embarrassing amount of TV shows"

"I have huge blue eyes - it's been something that people have always talked about"

"It can be easy to get caught up in craziness or insecurity"

"Acting is what I love to do. I wouldn't trade it for the world"

"I would like to meet Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz. I think I could play their daughters"

"it's Hannah Dakota Fanning"