"Ability is sexless."

John Henry Newman
(02/21/1801 – 08/11/1890)
English cardinal

"A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence."

Brander Matthews
(02/21/1852 – 03/31/1929)
US writer

"A very short one."

Jeanne Calment
(02/21/1875 – 08/04/1997)
French oldest person , on the sort of future a 120-yr-old expects

"The little I know I owe to my ignorance."

Sacha Guitry
(02/21/1885 – 07/24/1957)
French writer

"The blunders are all there on the board, waiting to be made."

Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower
(02/21/1887 – 02/05/1956
Russian chess player , on chess

"Sometimes it is impossible to deal with her, but most of the time she is very sweet, and if you caress her properly she will sing beautifully."

Andres Segovia
(02/21/1893 – 06/02/1987)
Spanish guitarist

"What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?"

Anais Nin
(02/21/1903 – 01/14/1977)
French-born US diarist

"If there are any of you at the back who do not hear me, please don't raise your hands because I am also nearsighted."

W. H. Auden
(02/21/1907 – 09/29/1973)
English-US writer

"They nicknamed me the Oomph Girl, and I loathe that nickname! Just being known by a nickname indicates that you're not thought of as a true actress... It's just crap! If you call an actress by her looks or a reaction, then that's all she'll ever be thought of as."

Ann Sheridan
(02/21/1915 – 01/21/1967)
US actor

"I want to be able to make Westerns like Kurosawa makes Westerns."

Sam Peckinpah
(02/21/1925 – 12/28/1984)
US director

"I do not participate in any sport with ambulances at the bottom of a hill."

Erma Bombeck
(02/21/1927 – 04/22/1996)
US writer, humorist

"How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it?"

Nina Simone
(02/21/1933 – 04/21/2003)
US singer

"Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power."

Barbara Jordan
(02/21/1936 – 01/17/1996)
US Senator, Representative (TX)

"The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things."

Jilly Cooper
(02/21/1937 – )
English writer

"A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded."

Tyne Daly
(02/21/1946 – )
US actor

"I do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously."

Alan Rickman
(02/21/1946 – )
English actor

"When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?"

Chuck Palahniuk
(02/21/1961 – )
US writer ("Fight Club")

"I just accepted them as a great accessory to every outfit."

Jennifer Love Hewitt
(02/21/1979 – )
US actor , on her breasts

"Judging people you don't know for things you don't understand is just really stupid."

Ellen Page
(02/21/1987 – )
Canadian actor