"You may have the universe if I may have Italy."

Giuseppe Verdi
(10/10/1813 – 01/27/1901)
Italian composer

"In order to appreciate England one has to have a certain contempt for logic."

Lin Yutang
(10/10/1895 – 03/26/1976)
Chinese writer

"The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity—love. And the story of a love is not important—what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity."

Helen Hayes
(10/10/1900 – 03/17/1993)
US actor

"One is always considered mad when one perfects something that others cannot grasp."

Ed Wood
(10/10/1924 – 12/10/1978)
US director, writer

"I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?"

Harold Pinter
(10/10/1930 – )
English writer

"Rock'n'Roll is not so much a question of electric guitars as it is striped pants."

David Lee Roth
(10/10/1955 – )
US singer (Van Halen) (also see Eddie Van Halen)

"I loved playing Go Go, because the character's so extreme. And she's pretty close to my real character. Especially the fact that she liked her sword and lots of accessories."

Chiaki Kuriyama
(10/10/1984 – )
Japanese actor, on her role on "Kill Bill: Vol. 1"