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

"The present is the funeral of the past, And man the living sepulchre of life"

"No damn man kills me and lives"

"The river was dyed with the blood of the slaughtered for two hundred yards.... Negro soldiers cannot cope with Southerners"

"Does the damned fool want to be blown up? Well, blow him up then. Give him hell, Captain Morton, as hot as you've got it, too"

"If you surrender, you shall be treated as prisoners of war, but if I have to storm your works, you may expect no quarter"

"I have never, on the field of battle, sent you where I was unwilling to go myself; nor would I now advise you to a course which I felt myself unwilling to pursue"

"I went into the army worth a million and a half dollars, and came out a beggar"

"If one road led to hell and the other to Mexico, I would be indifferent which to take"

"This fight is against slavery; if we lose it, you will be made free"

"I've got no respect for a young man who won't join the colours"

"Men, you may all do as you damn please, but I'm a-goin' home"

"I will be in my coffin before I will fight again under your command"

"Preserve untarnished the reputation you have so nobly won"

"Every moment lost is worth the life of a thousand men"

"War means fighting, and fighting means killing"

"Get there first with the most men"

"No iron spike can pierce a human heart as icily as a period in the right place"

"They gallop forward with their skirts tucked up, covered in dust, with heir big breasts, all whores, but comrades, whores because they’re comrades, that's all that matters, they're there to serve everybody"

"Who should we model ourselves? Just look at the way Stalin forges his speech, how chiselled his spare words are, how full of muscular strength"

"You won't have time to read the books that are truly worthwhile. There are about a hundred books that every educated person needs to read"

"When a phrase is born, it is both good and bad at the same time. The secret of its success rests in a crux that is barely discernible"

"A well-crafted story doesn’t need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might to resemble a well-crafted story"

"The vagrant moon trailed through the town and I tagged along, nurturing within me unfulfillable dreams and dissonant songs"

"In our day, bad taste is no longer a personal defect; it’s a crime. Even worse, bad taste is counter revolution"

"A well-thought-out story doesn’t need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might to resemble a well-crafted story"

"For me the whole world is like a gigantic theater in which I am the only spectator without opera glasses"

"If the world could write itself, it would write like Tolstoy"

"A phrase is born into the world good and bad at the same time. The secret rests in a barely perceptible turn"

"We are born for the pleasure of work, fighting, love, we are born for that and nothing else"

"You're trying to live without enemies. That's all you think about, not having enemies"

"The right to write badly was the privilege we widely used"

"I don't smoke, I don't drink, two out of three ain't bad"

"The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism"

"The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny"

"I dropped my iPhone in the bath, and my life has sort of spiraled almost out of control"

"If you deliver excellence right now, that gives you the best shot at the best future you've got coming"

"The Force is within you. Force yourself"

"Whoever had the bright idea of putting Indiana Jones in a leather jacket and a fedora in the jungle ought to be dragged into the street and shot"

"I'm very surprised and delighted at the luck I've had. I've been enormously lucky. I've had a long run. And now I have a chance to play old guy"

"When I read the script I thought; Man, this is the best thing I've seen - ever" [about Raiders Of The Lost Ark]

"I don't want to be a movie star. I want to be in movies that are stars"

"We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance"

"I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up"

"Behind every great man is a woman. Telling him he's not so hot"

"Once a film is finished, it's over for me. I'm on to something else"

"To me, success is choice and opportunity"

"The loss of anonymity is something that nobody can prepare you for"

"As a man I've always felt Irish, as an actor I've always felt Jewish"

"I never feel sexy. I have a distant relationship with the mirror"

"I am a kinder, gentler Harrison Ford than I once was"

"Anything is possible in space"

"Once I've written a song, I sometimes refine them"

"Once I completed the Cube and demonstrated it to my students, I realized it was nearly impossible to put down"

"I think you can directly link chihuahuas to Dow Jones"

"Survival is not so much about the body, but rather it is about the triumph of the human spirit"

"King's an equal opportunity dirtbag, he screws everybody"

"If you don't take chances, you can't do anything in life"

"Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around"

"I'm impossible to forget, but I'm hard to remember"

"I'm very blessed that I have such a supportive wife who is secure with letting me embarrass myself"