"When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it."

Marie de Sevigne
(02/05/1626 – 04/17/1696)
French writer

"Character is what you are in the dark."

Dwight L. Moody
(02/05/1837 – 12/22/1899)
US evangelist

"His pictures seem to resemble not pictures but a sample book of patterns of linoleum."

Cyril Asquith
(02/05/1890 – 08/24/1954)
English barrister , son of Herbert Henry Asquith (but not Margot Asquith) , on Paul Klee

"I suppose flattery hurts no one, that is, if he doesn't inhale."

Adlai Stevenson
(02/05/1900 – 07/14/1965)
US Vice President (23) ; see all US VPs

"I've made some of the greatest films ever made—and a lot of crap, too."

John Carradine
(02/05/1906 – 11/27/1988)
US actor (father of David Carradine and Keith Carradine; grandfather of Martha Plimpton)

"A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on."

William S. Burroughs
(02/05/1914 – 08/02/1997)
US writer

"Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected."

Red Buttons
(02/05/1919 – 07/13/2006)
US composer, comic, actor, author

"It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course."

Hank Aaron
(02/05/1934 – )
US baseball player

"Do you think Paul McCartney makes records just to annoy me personally, or does he want to get up everyone's f*ing nose with his f*ing antics?"

Alex Harvey
(02/05/1935 – 02/04/1982)
Sensational English musician (died near his birthday)

"The shortest recorded period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain."

Jane Bryant Quinn
(02/05/1939 – )
US economist (mother of Martha Quinn)

"Difficult acting with a chimp? No, no. The emotions were the same. In a way it was like playing opposite Paul Newman. The chimpanzee reacted differently, that's all."

Charlotte Rampling
(02/05/1945 – )
English actor

"I am afraid of being lazy and complacent. I am afraid of taking myself too seriously."

Barbara Hershey
(02/05/1948 – )
US actor

"Comedy is like music. You have to know the key and you have to find players with good chops."

Christopher Guest
(02/05/1948 – )
US writer, actor, musician (married to Jamie Lee Curtis; "Nigel Tufnel" in Spinal Tap)

"People can't really place me. They're not really sure who I am. Sometimes they think I'm Helen Hunt. Sometimes they think I'm Laura Dern."

Laura Linney
(02/05/1964 – )
US actor