"People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker."

Mary Austin
(09/09/1868 – 08/13/1934)
US writer

"Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act."

James Agate
(09/09/1877 – 06/06/1947)
English writer

"There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there."

Colonel Harlan Sanders
(09/09/1890 – 12/16/1980)
US chef

"Marriage—a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose."

Beverley Nichols
(09/09/1898 – 09/15/1983)
English writer

"If you forgive people enough you belong to them, and they to you, whether either person likes it or not—squatter's rights of the heart."

James Hilton
(09/09/1900 – 12/20/1954)
English writer

"You call this a script? Give me a couple of $5000.00-a-week writers and I'll write it myself."

Joe Pasternak
(09/09/1901 – 09/13/1991)
Transylvania-born producer
(With Connie Francis)

"Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world."

Cesare Pavese
(09/09/1908 – 08/27/1950)
Italian writer

"Few great men could pass Personnel."

Paul Goodman
(09/09/1911 – 08/02/1972)
US critic

"This isn't exactly a stable business. It's like trying to stand up in a canoe with your pants down."

Cliff Robertson
(09/09/1925 – )
US actor

"Only the untalented can afford to be humble."

Sylvia Miles
(09/09/1932 – )
US actor

"Claudia's the sort of person who goes through life holding onto the sides."

Alice Thomas Ellis
(09/09/1932 – 03/08/2005)
Welsh writer

"The word 'genius' isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein."

Joe Theismann
(09/09/1949 – )
ex-NFL-quarterback; he later claimed that there was a smart guy named Norman Einstein at his school.

"A duck walks into the pharmacy and says, "gimme some chapstick—and put it on my bill.""

The Amazing Johnathan
(09/09/1958 – )
US comic

"I'm not one to go around blowing my own horn."

Hugh Grant
(09/09/1960 – )
English actor

"Now I realize how ugly I am."

Adam Sandler
(09/09/1966 – )
US comic actor (SNL), after laser eye surgery

"You can't really expect a 22-year-old girl to react the same way as a man 24 years older than her."

Rachel Hunter
(09/09/1966 – )
New Zealander model, actor, on her marriage to Rod Stewart