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

"A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life"

"I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny"

"There! His Majesty can now read my name without glasses. And he can double the reward on my head!"

"People who pay greater respect to a wealthy villain than to an honest, upright man in poverty, almost deserve to be enslaved"

"My country is saved and by the smile of Heaven I am a free and independent man"

"I paint what I see and not what others like to see"

"Black is not a colour"

"Every time I paint, I throw myself into the water in order to learn how to swim"

"The principal person in a picture is light"

"Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more"

"There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another"

"This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man"

"Give me blood and I will give you freedom!"

"Freedom is not given - it is taken"

"One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives"

"No real change in history has ever been achieved by discussions"

"The freedom that we shall win through our sacrifice and exertions, we shall be able to preserve with our own strength"

"American capitalism finds its sharpest and most expressive reflection in the American cinema"

"Books are attracted to me. They make a beeline for me, and stick to me"

"In my hands books burst like ripe fruit. Like magic flowers they unfold their petals to show me the vital thought, the suggestive word, the confirming quotation, the decisive illustration"

"Language is much closer to film than painting is"

"It is art's task to make manifest the contradictions of being"

"When a lady says no, she means perhaps. When she says perhaps, she means yes. But when she says yes, she is no lady"

"When a diplomat says yes, he means perhaps. When he says perhaps, he means no. When he says no, he is not a diplomat"

"There are many things in life more worthwhile than money. One is to be brought up in this our England which is still the envy of less happy lands"

"The House of Commons starts its proceedings with a prayer. The chaplain looks at the assembled members with their varied intelligence and then prays for the country"

"Limitation is not a matter of justice. It is a rule of public policy which has its origin in history and its justification in convenience"

"Jazz attracted me because in it I found a formal perfection and instrumental precision that I admire in classical music, but which popular music doesn't have"

"You can acquire chic and elegance, but style itself is a rare thing"

"I've always liked what the Navajos say when they part. They never say goodbye; They say; Go in beauty"

"Swift justice demands more than just swiftness"

"Fairness is what justice really is"

"Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do"

"Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself"

"This is not something that can be swept under the rug and forgotten in the interest of forced Sunday togetherness"

"I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of stomach cancer. I decided that nobody should suffer that much"

"The world was not waiting for me"

"Nobody . . . took me seriously. They wondered why in the world I wanted to be a chemist when no women were doing that"

"The Nobel Prize is fine, but the drugs I've developed are rewards in themselves"

"When you put white lab coats on chemists, they all look alike!"

"I think of art as a report on civilization at a certain time"

"People say; But photographs are all lies. That's not the point. The lie is a truth, too"

"The future happens. No matter how much we scream"

"What are men? Children who doubt"

"Summer for prose and lemons for nakedness and languor"

"Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life"

"If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average"

"A culture, we all know, is made by its cities"

"The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes"

"If you want to live your life through to the end, you have to live dangerously"

"Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge"

"You go up, reach the top and then go down"

"To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude"

"I have always had the urge to open forbidden doors: with a curiosity and an obstinacy that verge on masochism"

"Theatre is immediate gratification"

"I liked being a Gypsy. It's who I was. And it's still a lot of who I am. Gypsy"

"I can dance for them. Because dance is dialogue without language"

"I begin with an idea, but as I work, the picture takes over"

"There is the struggle between the idea I preconceived... and the picture that fights for its own life"

"The reality is the picture, it is most certainly not in the picture"

"I hang my work upside down to emphasize surface"

"I always feel attacked when I'm asked about my painting"

"My paintings are battles"

"What really matters is how to deliver a prosperous and peaceful livelihood to all Asean countries"

"All of this is indeed novel to us. We are jointly learning by doing"

"I urge all Indonesians to look forward to the future and unite to improve the life and our dignity as a nation"

"Let us end differences or conflicts which will only prolong the people's problems and sufferings"

"I want to encourage our people, to educate our people to have the courage to understand and fight for their rights"

"That's what we're trained to do"

"We have made flying so cheap, I'm afraid we are going to make it cheap at any cost"

"There are two words I hate and despise and don’t want to hear; Red carpet and iconic"

"There was a rule; No trousers, or slacks, as Americans call them, in the palace. I never saw my mother in jeans"

"No one can take away your pain, so don't let anyone take away your happiness"

"Being fearless means busting down those walls of fear and being who you are, not who someone else thinks you are"

"Being sexy is just one part of being a woman and an actress. But if the part calls for sexy....."

"Kick fear to the side, because the payoff is huge"

"You survived the abuse, you’re going to survive the recovery"

"I definitely have my days where I look like I got dressed in the dark"

"A guy at ABC told me to change my name and get a nose job. I said; You get a nose job"

"Experiencing such a traumatic blow about being left out of what I created in Boyz II Men, it made me strong, very early"

"I do so much shopping. I should go to Shoppers Anonymous"

"I really don't have a career plan. I like being challenged and thrown around"

"I have more zits now than I did as a teenager. Stress zits"

"Society is a little more forgiving of two women kissing than two men. It's sad but true"

"People expect me to be thin and perfect... I'm not"

"I don’t deserve the breaths I get to take, I don’t feel that I can be redeemed"