"Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment."

Jalal ud-Din Rumi
(09/30/1207 – 12/17/1273)
Ghurid (now Afghanistan) region mystic and poet

"Everyone has heard of Canterbury if only because they murder archbishops there."

Michael Powell
(09/30/1905 – 02/19/1990)
US director

"It's all right for a fellow to grow peanuts ... but people ought not to think like them. I don't know whether the man is sick, or just a plain fool."

Lester Maddox
(09/30/1915 – 06/25/2003)
US governor (GA), on Jimmy Carter

"I came over here (Hollywood) to act, but it turned out all I had to do was to be high-minded, long suffering, white-gloved, and decorative."

Deborah Kerr
(09/30/1921 – 10/16/2007)
Scottish actor

"Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act."

Truman Capote
(09/30/1924 – 08/25/1984)
US writer

"I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents."

Elie Wiesel
(09/30/1928 – )
Roumanian-US Nobel writer

"I dress for women, and undress for men. "

Angie Dickinson
(09/30/1931 – )
US actor

"There is nothing about my career that is an accident."

Marc "T Rex" Bolan
(09/30/1947 – 09/16/1977)
English singer

"I'm interested in doing movies I wouldn't normally be interested in doing."

Eric Stoltz
(09/30/1961 – )
US actor

"I usually say that I don't eat anything with a face or arse (which is why I never get quoted anywhere)..."

Stacey Kettner
(09/30/1967 – )
Expat-US writer, criminal-law specialist, and friend of the quotekeeper

"Sting! I mean, come on—who doesn't love Sting? Even if you love Megadeth, you have respect for Sting. If you love Pokemon, you'll find out who Sting is someday."

Jenna Elfman
(09/30/1971 – )
US actor