"The Galilean is not a favorite of mine. So far from owing him any thanks for his favor, I cannot avoid confessing that I owe a secret grudge to his carpentership."

Percy Bysshe Shelley
(08/04/1792 – 07/08/1822)
English writer (was married to Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

"One, two, three four—thus I sit and make notes and write little pieces for myself. It is to no purpose, just an old habit. I leak muted words. I am a dripping tap, one, two, three, four..."

Knut Hamsun
(08/04/1859 – 02/19/1952)
Norwegian writer

"All music is folk music. I ain't never heard no horse sing a song."

Louis Armstrong
(08/04/1901 – 07/06/1971)
US bandleader, singer, trumpet player, jazz pioneer

"Eccentricity, to be socially acceptable, had still to have at least four or five generations of inbreeding behind it."

Sir Osbert Lancaster
(08/04/1908 – 07/27/1980)
English illustrator, gardener

"I can't sit through plays and musical theatre. I just want to run up onstage and mess up their hair and turn over the furniture."

Billy Bob Thornton
(08/04/1955 – )
US actor (was married to Angelina Jolie)