"The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another."J. Frank Dobie (09/26/1888 09/18/1964) US writer
"One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge."Robert Staughton Lynd (09/26/1892 11/01/1970) US writer
"Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy."Pope Paul VI (09/26/1897 08/06/1978) Italian religious leader
"Why should I limit myself to only one woman when I can have as many women as I want?"George Gershwin (09/26/1898 07/11/1937) US composer (brother of Ira)
"Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for."Jane Smiley (09/26/1949 ) US writer
"They found me basically dead, not breathing, with the gearshift through my chest, and of all the people I'd known and played with, David [Bowie] was the only one who came to the hospital during all that time."Tony Sales (09/26/1951 ) US bassist (Utopia, Stooges, Tin Machine) (son of Soupy Sales)