"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
(01/24/1959 – )
German actor (daughter of Klaus Kinski)