Saint Jerome
(??/??/0347 – 09/30/0420)
Italian religious person
"Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment."
Jalal ud-Din Rumi
(09/30/1207 – 12/17/1273)
Ghurid (now Afghanistan) region mystic and poet
(09/30/1207 – 12/17/1273)
Ghurid (now Afghanistan) region mystic and poet
"No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself."
Fulke Greville
(10/03/1554 – 09/30/1628)
English writer (died near his birthday), 'Servant to Q. Eliz., councellor to King James, and friend to Sir Philip Sidney'
(10/03/1554 – 09/30/1628)
English writer (died near his birthday), 'Servant to Q. Eliz., councellor to King James, and friend to Sir Philip Sidney'
"Everyone has heard of Canterbury if only because they murder archbishops there."
Michael Powell
(09/30/1905 – 02/19/1990)
US director
(09/30/1905 – 02/19/1990)
US director
"It's all right for a fellow to grow peanuts ... but
people ought not to think like them. I don't know whether the man is
sick, or just a plain fool."
Lester Maddox
(09/30/1915 – 06/25/2003)
US governor (GA) , on Jimmy Carter
(09/30/1915 – 06/25/2003)
US governor (GA) , on Jimmy Carter
"I came over here (Hollywood) to act, but it turned
out all I had to do was to be high-minded, long suffering, white-gloved,
and decorative."
Deborah Kerr
(09/30/1921 – 10/16/2007)
Scottish actor
(09/30/1921 – 10/16/2007)
Scottish actor
"Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act."
Truman Capote
(09/30/1924 – 08/25/1984)
US writer
(09/30/1924 – 08/25/1984)
US writer
"I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents."
Elie Wiesel
(09/30/1928 – )
Roumanian-US Nobel writer
(09/30/1928 – )
Roumanian-US Nobel writer
"There is more credit in being abused by fools than praised by rogues."
F. E. Smith
(07/12/1872 – 09/30/1930)
English statesman
(07/12/1872 – 09/30/1930)
English statesman
"There is nothing about my career that is an accident."
Marc "T Rex" Bolan
(09/30/1947 – 09/16/1977)
English singer
(09/30/1947 – 09/16/1977)
English singer
"To grasp the full significance of life is the
actor's duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his
dedication. Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are
all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you
have. Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want
to be both before I'm done."
James Dean
(02/08/1931 – 09/30/1955)
US actor
(02/08/1931 – 09/30/1955)
US actor
"I'm interested in doing movies I wouldn't normally be interested in doing."
Eric Stoltz
(09/30/1961 – )
US actor
(09/30/1961 – )
US actor
"I usually say that I don't eat anything with a face or arse (which is why I never get quoted anywhere)..."
Stacey Kettner
(09/30/1967 – )
Expat-US writer, criminal-law specialist, and friend of the quotekeeper
(09/30/1967 – )
Expat-US writer, criminal-law specialist, and friend of the quotekeeper
"Sting! I mean, come on—who doesn't love Sting? Even if you love Megadeth, you have respect for Sting. If you love Pokemon, you'll find out who Sting is someday."
Jenna Elfman
(09/30/1971 – )
US actor
(09/30/1971 – )
US actor
"Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?"
Edgar Bergen (as Charlie McCarthy)
(02/16/1903 – 09/30/1978)
US comic, actor (father of Candice Bergen)
(02/16/1903 – 09/30/1978)
US comic, actor (father of Candice Bergen)
"Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years."
Simone Signoret
(03/25/1921 – 09/30/1985)
German actor
(03/25/1921 – 09/30/1985)
German actor
"This was a Golden Age, a time of high adventure,
rich living, and hard dying... but nobody thought so. This was a future
of fortune and theft, pillage and rapine, culture and vice... but nobody
admitted it. This was an age of extremes, a fascinating century of
freaks... but nobody loved it."
Alfred Bester
(12/18/1913 – 09/30/1987)
US writer
(12/18/1913 – 09/30/1987)
US writer
"Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to
get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third
time to figure out whether you like it or not."
Virgil Thomson
(11/25/1896 – 09/30/1989)
US composer
(11/25/1896 – 09/30/1989)
US composer
"But bombs are unbelievable until they actually fall."
Patrick White
(05/28/1912 – 09/30/1990)
Australian writer
(05/28/1912 – 09/30/1990)
Australian writer
(02/07/1953 – 09/30/1998)
US baseball pitcher
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