"I hardly know so true a mark of a little mind as the servile imitation of others."

Fulke Greville
(10/03/1554 – 09/30/1628)
English writer, 'Servant to Q. Eliz., councellor to King James, and friend to Sir Philip Sidney'

"Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement."

George Bancroft
(10/03/1800 – 01/17/1891)
US historian, statesman

"The race cannot succeed, nor build strong citizens, until we have a race of women competent to do more than bear a brood of negative men."

T. Thomas Fortune
(10/03/1856 – 06/02/1928)
US writer

"If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive..."

Eleonora Duse
(10/03/1858 – 04/21/1924)
Italian actor

"What I am after is the first impression—I want to show all one sees on first entering the room—what my eye takes in at first glance."

Pierre Bonnard
(10/03/1867 – 01/23/1947)
French artist

"We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later."

Louis Aragon
(10/03/1897 – 12/24/1982)
French writer

"Where they got you stationed now, Luke?"
"At the p-p-p-present time in Norfolk at the Navy base, m-m-making the world safe for hypocrisy."

Thomas Wolfe
(10/03/1900 – 09/15/1938)
US writer

"Like Webster's Dictionary, we're Morocco bound!"

Johnny Burke
(10/03/1908 – 02/25/1964)
US songwriter

"A dead atheist is someone who's all dressed up with no place to go."

James Duffecy
(10/03/1912 – 11/17/1983)
Australian evangelist

"With history one can never be certain, but I think I can safely say that Aristotle Onassis would not have married Mrs. Khrushchev."

Gore Vidal
(10/03/1925 – )
US writer, on what would've happened if Khrushchev had been assassinated instead of JFK

"I want my flowers while I'm alive. I can't smell them when I'm dead. I will not have the music business ignore my position in the industry."

Chubby Checker
(10/03/1941 – )
US singer, demanding a statue at the Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame (2001)

"Groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having."

John Perry Barlow
(10/03/1947 – )
US lyricist

"Farrah is uniquely suited to play a woman of limited intelligence."

Michael Medved
(10/03/1948 – )
US critic

"These days baseball is different. You come to spring training, you get your legs ready, you arms loose, your agents ready, your lawyer lined up."

Dave Winfield
(10/03/1951 – )
US baseball player

"The issue of government is not to determine who may sleep together in the bedroom, it's to help those that might not be eating in the kitchen."

Reverend Al Sharpton
(10/03/1954 – )
US religious/political leader

"The way I like to look at it is....if that's the last time I ever got to play, I'd better give it everything I've got."

Stevie Ray Vaughan
(10/03/1954 – 08/27/1990)
US musician (brother of Jimmie)

"Getting married in four days was the biggest ... mistake I've ever made. I have two beautiful kids, but ... how can you know somebody in four days? Bonehead."

Tommy Lee
(10/03/1962 – )
Greece-borndrummer (Motley Crue) (also see Nikki Sixx; was married to Heather Locklear and Pamela Anderson)

"Being in a band you can wear whatever you want—it's like an excuse for halloween every day."

Gwen Stefani
(10/03/1969 – )
US singer (No Doubt)

"I figure when I'm 50 and broke, I'll want to do another one. Maybe my character, Sidney, has been in an insane asylum for all these years. She breaks out and becomes a killer herself." Neve Campbell
(10/03/1973 – )
US actor, on the prospect of making another sequel after "Scream 3"

"Clean underwear? Are you kidding me!?"

Ashlee Simpson
(10/03/1984 – )
US singer (lip-syncher?) (sister of Jessica Simpson)