Born Today with Interesting Quotes

"As if a woman of education bought things because she wanted 'em."
John Vanbrugh
(01/24/1664 – 03/26/1726)
English architect, writer 

"I always take blushing either for a sign of guilt, or of ill breeding."
William Congreve
(01/24/1670 – 01/19/1729)
English writer 

"A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in."
King Frederick II the Great
(01/24/1712 – 08/17/1786)
Prussian royalty 

"It is not necesssary to understand things in order to argue about them."
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
(01/24/1732 – 05/18/1799)
French musician 

"Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet it alone."
Edith Wharton
(01/24/1862 – 08/11/1937)
US writer 

"No comment. I saw her once at her very worst. I do not condone sadism."
Estelle Winwood
(01/24/1883 – 06/20/1984)
US actor , on Joan Crawford 

"Marriage always demands the finest arts of insincerity possible between two human beings."
Vicki Baum
(01/24/1888 – 08/29/1960)
Austrian-US writer 

"To end up with a canvas that is no less beautiful than the empty canvas is to begin with."
Robert Motherwell
(01/24/1915 – 07/16/1991)
US artist , purpose 

"Well, I can't figure out God."
Oral Roberts
(01/24/1918 – 12/15/2009)
US televangelist 

"Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo."
Desmond Morris
(01/24/1928 – )
English zoologist, writer 

"I think I need to be married. Having a wife and family makes some sense out of all that I do, because I can't make any sense out of 20,000 adoring fans watching me for two hours."
Neil Diamond
(01/24/1941 – )
US singer, songwriter 

"Sexiness is all in the eye of the beholder. I think it should be. Absolutely. My sex appeal, whatever it might be, isn't obvious...at least to me."
Sharon Tate
(01/24/1943 – 08/09/1969)
US actor (was married to Roman Polanski) 

"I'm OK with it, but it'll be a drag if I don't make it till the next James Bond movie comes out."
Warren Zevon
(01/24/1947 – 09/07/2003)
US singer, songwriter 

"I never said I had no idea about most of the things you said I had no idea about."
Elliott Abrams
(01/24/1948 – )
US lawyer 

"I owe it all to little chocolate donuts."
John Belushi
(01/24/1949 – 03/05/1982)
US comic, actor (SNL) 

"They don't have a page that broad."
Gennifer Flowers
(01/24/1950 – )
US presidential girlfriend , on the prospect of Hillary Clinton baring her rear in a magazine 

"I'm actually quite a decent chap, and the rest of the group are wankers. "
Jools Holland
(01/24/1955 – )
English singer, songwriter (Squeeze), talk show host , on his bandmates 

"Actors, after all, dream."
Nastassja Kinski
(01/24/1961 – )
German actor (daughter of Klaus Kinski) 

"I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."
Winston Churchill
(11/30/1874 – 01/24/1965)
British Prime Minister (41) (son of Jennie Jerome Churchill; see other British Prime Ministers) 

"Personally, I thought Curly was the greatest because he was a natural comedian who had no formal training. Whatever he did he made up on the spur of the moment."
Larry Fine
(10/05/1902 – 01/24/1975)
US stooge (Also see Moe Howard, Curly Howard) 

"A person is either the effect of his environment or is able to have an effect upon his environment."
L. Ron Hubbard
(03/13/1911 – 01/24/1986)
US writer 

"Sometimes history takes things into its own hands."
Thurgood Marshall
(07/02/1908 – 01/24/1993)
US Supreme Court (see other Supreme Court justices) 

"I distinguished myself by flunking out of college three times."
Pernell Roberts
(05/18/1928 – 01/24/2010)
US actor