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

"It is the special province of music to move the heart"

"Harmony is next to Godliness"

"Without my morning coffee I'm just like a dried up piece of roast goat"

"Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results"

"How sweet coffee tastes! Lovelier than a thousand kisses, sweeter far than muscatel wine"

"My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them"

"Among individuals, as among nations, respect for the rights of others is peace"

"The government has a sacred duty to address the nation and make it listen to the voice of its greatest rights and interests"

"Sooner or later the cause of rights and justice will triumph"

"Men are nothing, principles are everything"

"Democracy is the destiny of humanity; Freedom its indestructible arm"

"As a son of the people, I could never forget that my only goal should be their greater prosperity"

"Mexicans: let us now pledge all our efforts to obtain and consolidate the benefits of peace"

"The Imperial Government will not succeed in subduing the Mexicans, and its armies will not have a single day of peace"

"There is one thing beyond the reach of perversity. The inevitable failure of history, she will judge us"

"The emission of ideas by the press ought to be as free as the human capacity for thought"

"To will the impossible is usually a sin of indolence"

"Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity"

"I regard the people as a great being, inspired by a single idea. This is my problem. I strove to solve it in this opera"

"When a German thinks, he reasons his way to a conclusion. Our Russian brother, on the other hand, starts with a conclusion and then might amuse himself with some reasoning"

"In music likewise we have two giants, Beethoven, the thinker, and the super thinker Berlioz"

"When I began, the real architects would design only museums, cathedrals, capitols, monuments"

"The office boy was considered good enough to do factory buildings. I'm still that office boy designing factories. I have no dignity to be impaired"

"In spite of the fact that architecture today is in my opinion only about 10% art and 90% business, the architect must have constantly before him the final result - the artistic, the practical and the economic"

"To me he proved not only a splendid teacher but a real friend whose kindness and stimulating influence I have treasured ever since"

"Eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak"

"In nature, light creates the colour. In the picture, colour creates the light"

"Painters must speak through paint"

"If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic"

"Colours must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel"

"To sense the invisible and to be able to create it, that is art"

"The father of every good work is discontent, and its mother is diligence"

"I will make all the wine you can sell"

"A stage space has two rules; Anything can happen and something must happen"

"The work of rehearsal is looking for meaning and then making it meaningful"

"The work of a director can be summed up in two very simple words; Why and how"

"Nothing in theatre has any meaning before or after. Meaning is now"

"Reality is a word with many meanings"

"Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves"

"We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us"

"The best project is one that asks a novel question"

"The River Trent is lovely, I know because I have walked on it for 18 years"

"Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes"

"I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one"

"We had a good team on paper. Unfortunately, the game was played on grass"

"Manchester United in Brazil? I hope they all get bloody diarrhoea"

"If God had wanted us to play football in the sky, He'd have put grass up there"

"I like my women to be feminine, not sliding into tackles and covered in mud"

"Rome wasn't built in a day. But I wasn't on that particular job"

"I can't even spell spaghetti never mind talk Italian"

"We talk about it for twenty minutes and then we decide I was right"

"The ugliest player I ever signed was Kenny Burns"

"Anybody who can do anything in Leicester but make a jumper has got to be a genius"

"No cheating bastards do I talk to. I will not talk to any cheating bastards"

"I'm dealing with my drinking problem and I have a reputation for getting things done"

"I only ever hit Roy the once. He got up so I couldn't have hit him very hard"

"Girls were coming from every angle. I couldn't love them all. But I tried"

"If one of us is chained, none of us is free"

"I want to be a soul singer"

"The Cavern was a great place to play. The groove was there, the people were there, and it was wonderful"

"I don't need to make a fortune, I need to survive"

"The secret was to just be cool, stay in God's graces, and work it out"

"Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it"

"Every bar you go in, there's always some wisecrack; Oh, yours will be a Martini, shaken, not stirred"

"I don't think I've drunk one since I've left the Bond movies"

"It's very important to make the man believable so that you can stretch the fantasy"

"My favourite Bond movies were always Dr. No, From Russia with Love, and Goldfinger"

"Roger is one of the only people in the world who can be fun in the midst of all that gadgetry"

"I don't think anyone except the few people who have played James Bond can tell you how strange and special it is and how much your life changes"

"You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their colour"

"Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay"

"My passion and energy get mistaken for anger"

"I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud"

"I like these calm little moments before the storm, it reminds me of Beethoven"

"When I’m naked, I look like a bald chicken. How did I get to be a scary bad guy?"

"I'm a little tired of playing bad guys. I long to do a comedy. But it was fun knocking Indiana Jones around"

"Political correctness has become a straight-jacket"

"It was fun being romantic, sexy with a man"

"I slip from workaholic to bum real easy"

"I just want the money and the fame and the adoration, and I don't want any of the other stuff"

"I acquired fame by playing the coolest kid who ever lived. Now, the only roles I can seem to get are bleak, insecure men"

"Suddenly all these doors opened ... It's just amazing. All these things have to line up that are out of your control"

"655,000 Iraqi civilians are dead. Who are the terrorists?"

"God has a plan, and it's your job to show up with an open heart"

"I want the same standard applied to homosexuals as is applied to heterosexuals"

"I'd rather sink with my own vision than float with somebody else's"

"The gray has gone away. I am living in bright technicolor"

"I'm sure I will cause tremendous seismic shifts in the culture again"

"Progress depends as much on our collective differences as it does on our individual IQ scores"

"Loving and trusting another person is a reckless thing. Even insane"

"The paparazzi and the press have given me a voice. No matter how I got the voice, it's there"

"I was borderline obese"

"Our eyes met and that was it. We just hit it off right away. I learned real fast how much of a whirlwind the press and everything was"

"I don't drink or go wild anymore, but I can still be the life of the party"

"I'll always dance for fun, but for work? I've done it, dude"

"I favour every idea that makes the game beautiful"

"A lot of the moves I make originate from futsal"

"If I hadn't been a footballer, I would have been a musician"

"Paolo Maldini and John Terry are two of the toughest men I have met on the field"

"God gives gifts to everyone, some can write, some can dance. He gave me the skill to play football"

"Adversity makes me hungrier. I thrive on being able to make a way out of No Way"

"I remember my mistakes more than my success"

"If you don't think that you're the best, how do you become the best?"

"The physical part has a lot to do with the mental part"