"Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think."

Niels Bohr
(10/07/1885 – 11/18/1962)
Danish mathematician

Henry Wallace (then secretary of agriculture): "This country should raise more wheat."

Heckler: "What about hay?"

Wallace: "I'm speaking about food for mankind, but I'll get around to your case in a minute."
(10/07/1888 – 11/18/1965)
US Vice President (24) (see other US Vice Presidents), same birth and death dates as Bohr

"My honor is my loyalty."

Heinrich Himmler
(10/07/1900 – 05/23/1945)
German Gestapo head

"You can have all the intelligence in the world and don't have enough stamina. I have seen some very bright, bright women who do not have the stamina for husbands."

"Mother" Charleszetta Waddles
(10/07/1912 – 07/12/2001)
US nun

"The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I’m concerned it can have it."

Elizabeth Janeway
(10/07/1913 – 01/15/2005)
US writer

"There's no sentence that's too short in the eyes of God."

William Zinsser
(10/07/1922 – )
US grammarian

"Rule A: Don't. Rule A1: Rule A doesn't exist. Rule A2: Do not discuss the existence or non-existence of Rules A, A1, or A2."

R. D. Laing
(10/07/1927 – 08/23/1989)
English psychiatrist

"When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land."

Bishop Desmond Tutu
(10/07/1931 – )
African religious leader, Nobelist

"A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money."

Imamu Amiri Baraka
(10/07/1934 – )
US writer

"As a work of art, it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks."

Clive James
(10/07/1939 – )
Australian critic, on Judith Krantz’ "Princess Daisy"

"The well of nature is full today. Time to go outside and take a drink"

Diane Ackerman
(10/07/1948 – )
US writer

"Rock'n'roll starts between the legs and goes through the heart, then to the head. As long as it does those three things, it's a great rock song."

John "Cougar" Mellencamp
(10/07/1951 – )
US singer, songwriter

"We discussed this very important issue yesterday over a beer."

Vladimir Putin
(10/07/1952 – )
Russian President, on the 2000 US presidential election

"There's nothing more boring than a rock'n'roll star. Someone who has been on the road for 10 years, expecting attention wherever he goes, drinking himself stupid, who is obnoxious, incoherent, uncreative, and has a massive ego. There's nothing more pointless."

Thom Yorke
(10/07/1968 – )
English musician (Radiohead)

"As strange as movie making is, doing love scenes for the first time with someone you've never even said hello to does work in terms of having a fresh quality to a relationship."

Rachel McAdams
(10/07/1976 – )
US actor