"Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value."

Marechal Ferdinand Foch
(10/02/1851 – 03/20/1929)
French general

Reporter: "What do you think of Western Civilization?"

Mahatma Gandhi: "I think it would be a good idea."
(10/02/1869 – 01/31/1948)
Indian political, religious leader

"They will get it straight one day at the Sorbonne.
We shall return at twilight from the lecture
pleased that the irrational is rational."

Wallace Stevens
(10/02/1879 – 08/02/1955)
US writer

"She got her good looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon."

Groucho Marx
(10/02/1890 – 08/19/1977)
US comic, actor (Marx Brothers: Groucho, Chico, Harpo, Zeppo, Gummo)

"His hilarity was like a scream from a crevasse."

Graham Greene
(10/02/1904 – 04/03/1991)
English writer

"I sometimes think that Thomas Cook should be numbered among the secular saints. He took travel from the privileged and gave it to the people."

Robert Runcie
(10/02/1921 – 07/11/2000)
English Archbishop

"(Travel seems) not just a way of having a good time, but something that every self-respecting citizen ought to undertake, like a high-fiber diet, say, or a deodorant."

Jan Morris
(10/02/1926 – )
English writer

"If a swamp alligator could talk, it would sound like Tennessee Williams."

Rex Reed
(10/02/1938 – )
US critic

"If you are going to America, bring food."

Annie Leibovitz
(10/02/1949 – )
US photographer

"Rock'n'roll is trying to convince girls to pay money to be near you."

Richard Hell
(10/02/1949 – )
US singer, bassist (Voidoids)

"When you're as rich as I am, you don't have to be political." Sting
(10/02/1951 – )
English bassist, singer (Police)

"The 49ers were so badly flattened that they didn't fly back to San Francisco, they were faxed."

Scott Ostler
(10/02/???? – )
US columnist, on a 1993 football playoff loss

"It's definitely going to change my image. Rock stations are calling me now because I'm naked."

Tiffany
(10/02/1971 – )
US singer, on posing nude for Playboy