"He who has gold makes and accomplishes whatever he wishes in the world and finally uses it to send souls to paradise."

Christopher Columbus
(08/26/1451 – 05/20/1506)
Italian explorer

"The general application of the transistor in radio and television is far in the future."

Dr. Lee deForest
(08/26/1873 – 06/30/1961)
US inventor, in 1952

"Without humour you cannot run a sweetie-shop, let alone a nation."

John Buchan
(08/26/1875 – 02/11/1940)
Scottish writer

"Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman."

Guillaume Apollinaire
(08/26/1880 – 11/09/1918)
French writer

"Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination."

Christopher Isherwood
(08/26/1904 – 01/04/1986)
English writer

"'Good morning' is a contradiction of terms."

Jim Davis
(08/26/1909 – 04/26/1981)
US actor (also see Jim Davis the "Garfield" cartoonist)

"Generals who can write always make me nervous."

Ben Bradlee
(08/26/1921 – )
US newsman (Washington Post)

"The plural of anecdote is data."

Ben Wattenberg
(08/26/1933 – )
US columnist, commentator

"It was not so very long ago that people thought that semiconductors were part-time orchestra leaders and microchips were very, very small snack foods."

Geraldine Ferraro
(08/26/1935 – )
US Rep (NY); 1984 Vice Presidential Candidate

"A senescent bimbo with a lust for home furnishings."

Barbara Ehrenreich
(08/26/1941 – )
US writer, on Nancy Reagan

"Any girl would go insane by the end of that. But it was at the point where I actually found myself liking 'Happy Gilmore' that I recognized the total decline of my intelligence and emotional well-being."

Shirley Manson
(08/26/1966 – )
Scottish singer (Garbage), on touring with 20 guys in a bus

"I don't even get an allowance."

Macaulay Culkin
(08/26/1980 – )
US actor, at age 10