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

"One meal a day is enough for a lion, and it ought to be for a man"

"I have seized the light. I have arrested its flight"

"When everyone is somebody then no one's anybody"

"Deerstalking would be a very fine sport if only the deer had guns"

"Life's a pudding full of plums"

"Man is nature's sole mistake"

"Things are seldom what they seem"

"Posterity shall know of me even less than I shall know of posterity"

"Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved"

"My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering"

"If I miss one day of practice, I notice it. If I miss two days, the critics notice it. If I miss three days, the audience notices it"

"I cannot imagine a genuinely happy home without music in it"

"I owe my success in one per cent to my talent, in ten per cent to luck, and in ninety per cent to hard word. Work, work, and more work is the secret to success"

"The Pole listening to Chopin listens to the voice of his whole race"

"The ultimate necessity is the summoning of the mind and will to do their duty"

"Music is the only art that actually lives"

"Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings"

"We proceeded with the dull routine of making a picture we both thought nauseating, "Pollyanna". I hated writing it, Mary [Mary Pickford] hated playing it"

"I'll only stop singing when I'm in my grave"

"Everyone should have a philosophy for living better"

"As long as your heart beats, one is never too old"

"In order to grow old, you have to experience everything, but in moderation"

"The roots of Cuban music are in my head"

"I never thought of myself in comedy at all... I loved going to the theatre and seeing people wearing beautiful clothes come down the staircase and start to dance"

"The trouble with most comedians who try to do satire is that they are essentially brash, noisy and indelicate people who have to use a sledge hammer to smash a butterfly"

"It takes more talent to write music, but it takes more courage to write lyrics"

"Things never are as bad as they seem"

"It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract"

"I realized up there that our planet is not infinite. It's fragile..... We look pretty vulnerable in the darkness of space"

"I am guilty of asking the Senate for pork and proud of the Senate for giving it to me"

"You can't lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself"

"I'm not the manager because I'm always right, but I'm always right because I'm the manager"

"He should be in the Hall of Fame with a tube of KY jelly attached to his plaque"

"Arithmetic Is Being Able To Count Up To Twenty Without Taking Off Your Shoes"

"Laughter Is Timeless, Imagination Has No Age And Dreams Are Forever"

"If you take risks, you may fail; but if you don't take risks, you will surely fail"

"At the end of every day of every year, two things remain unshakable, our constancy of purpose and our continuous discontent with the immediate present"

"Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise"

"Nothing’s worse than last year’s adjectives"

"Forgiving men is so much easier than forgiving women"

"Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results"

"Hatred would have been easier. With hatred, I would have known what to do. Hatred is clear, metallic, one-handed, unwavering; unlike love"

"A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you"

"Aaron Spelling went further than anyone has ever gone for television"

"You can take Elvis. You can take Marilyn Monroe. Success and fame will not be the answer if something inside of you is bothering you, if things in your mind aren't going right"

"I wanted to be able to go shopping without people looking to see if I really was one of the world's 10 most beautiful women. I longed to be myself"

"The secret of our success is that we never, never give up"

"An Indian is an Indian regardless of the degree of Indian blood or which little government card they do or do not possess"

"Cows run away from the storm while the buffalo charges toward it - and gets through it quicker. Whenever I’m confronted with a tough challenge, I do not prolong the torment, I become the buffalo"

"No matter what my feeling or opinion might be about a given film, once you give it to the audience, they own it"

"A lot of baby boomers are baby bongers"

"I'm a people pleaser who has a knack for disappointing"

"You know how they say we only use 10 percent of our brains? I think we only use 10 percent of our hearts"

"You know you're in love when you wear condoms while having sex with other women"

"I'm a soulless lawyer. Give me any opinion and I can argue it"

"Fashion embraces the weirdos"

"The realism frightens me more than the bubble gum-y, heightened stuff"

"I am most proud of my integrity and least proud of my cynicism"

"The first time I went to therapy, I had to stop going because they were making me hate my parents"

"If I could edit Google Images, then I wouldn't be as scared of the Internet"

"I always want to give more than I gave yesterday"