"My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed—my dearest pleasure when free."

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(08/30/1797 – 02/01/1851)
English writer (was married to Percy Bysshe Shelley)

"If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment."

Ernest Lord Rutherford
(08/30/1871 – 10/19/1937)
New Zealand physicist

"Hard work is damn near as overrated as monogamy."

Huey Long
(08/30/1893 – 09/10/1935)
US Senator (LA)

"Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance."

Shirley Booth
(08/30/1898 – 10/16/1992)
US actor

"All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast."

John Gunther
(08/30/1901 – 05/29/1970)
US writer

"Nothing should be overlooked in fighting for better education. Be persistent and ornery: this will be good for the lethargic educational establishment and will aid the whole cause of public education."

Roy Wilkins
(08/30/1901 – 09/08/1981)
US statesman

"Carole Lombard was a wonderful girl. Swore like a man. Other women try, but she really did."

Fred MacMurray
(08/30/1908 – 11/05/1991)
US actor

"I heard that, before 'Baby Jane,' when Bette Davis was washed up in the movies and took her act on the road, Tallulah Bankhead sent her a first-night telegram which read: 'Kisses on Your Opening.' Tallulah was AC-DC. Bette is strictly B.D." Joan Blondell
(08/30/1909 – 12/25/1979)
US actor (was married to Dick Powell, Michael Todd)

"That part of his speech was rather like being savaged by a dead sheep."

Denis Healey
(08/30/1917 – )
English statesman, on being attacked by Sir Geoffrey Howe in debate

"If you don't think too good, don't think too much."

Ted Williams
(08/30/1918 – 07/05/2002)
US baseball player

"Every newborn baby is a little savage."

Daryl Gates
(08/30/1926 – )
US police chief (Los Angeles)

"The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it."

Warren Buffett
(08/30/1930 – )
US investor, on junk bonds

"Traditionally, songwriters can't sing. And that holds true in my case, also."

John Phillips
(08/30/1935 – 03/18/2001)
US singer, songwriter

"The only thing I like about being an actress is acting."

Elizabeth Ashley
(08/30/1939 – )
US actor

"In Port Headland, happiness comes smithereen-shaped."

Jonathan Aitken
(08/30/1942 – )
Irish minister, perjurer

"At least I hate myself as much as I hate anybody else."

Robert Crumb
(08/30/1943 – )
US comic artist

"To win you have to risk loss."

Jean-Claude Killy
(08/30/1943 – )
French skier

"What is a teenager in San Francisco to rebel against, for pity's sake? Their parents are all so busy trying to be non-judgmental, it's no wonder they take to dyeing their hair green."

Molly Ivins
(08/30/1944 – 01/31/2007)
US writer

"I do have certain feelings. My feeling is that whoever is in charge, I want him out."

Lewis Black
(08/30/1948 – )
US comic, on his political views

"I'm a salty, greasy girl. I give every french fry a fair chance." Cameron Diaz
(08/30/1972 – )
US actor