October 27

"A decorator tainted with insanity."

Kenyon Cox
(10/27/1856 – 03/17/1919)
US artist , on Paul Cezanne

"I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart, and that is softness of head."

Theodore Roosevelt
(10/27/1858 – 01/16/1919)
US President (26) (see all US Presidents; cousin of Franklin Roosevelt; father of Alice Roosevelt Longworth)

"Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use."

Emily Post
(10/27/1862 – 09/25/1960)
US etiquette maven

"In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing."

Owen D. Young
(10/27/1874 – 07/11/1962)
US businessman

"Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it's the answer to everything. To 'Why am I here?' To uselessness. It's the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities..."

Enid Bagnold
(10/27/1889 – 03/31/1981)
English writer (National Velvet)

"Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail."

Alfred Whitney Griswold
(10/27/1906 – 04/19/1963)
US educator

"Fans are people who let an actor know he's not alone in the way he feels about himself."

Jack Carson
(10/27/1910 – 01/02/1963)
US actor

"An alcoholic is someone who you do not like who drinks as much as you do."

Dylan Thomas
(10/27/1914 – 11/09/1953)
Welsh writer , was engaged to Pamela Hansford Johnson

"Classism and greed are making insignificant all the other kinds of isms."

Ruby Dee
(10/27/1924 – )
US actor, activist (was married to Ossie Davis)

"Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it is awfully hard to get it back in."

H. R. Haldeman
(10/27/1926 – 11/12/1993)
US presidential staffer, Watergate co-conspirator

"Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing."

Sylvia Plath
(10/27/1932 – 02/11/1963)
US writer (was married to Ted Hughes)

"If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play."

John Cleese
(10/27/1939 – )
English comic, actor (Monty Python's Flying Circus)

"Before we can leave our parents, they stuff our heads like the suitcases which they jam-pack with homemade underwear."

Maxine Hong Kingston
(10/27/1940 – )
US writer

"I was never really a career woman, you see. My life always came first. When I got nominated for 'Diary of a Mad Housewife,' I didn't think, 'Aah, now I'll get more money.' My dream had always just been to do my works well, fall in love and build a life for myself."

Carrie Snodgress
(10/27/1946 – 04/01/2004)
US actor (LTR and son Zeke with Neil Young)

"If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words."

Fran Lebowitz
(10/27/1950 – )
US writer

"We want to be the band to dance to when the bomb drops."

Simon LeBon
(10/27/1958 – )
English singer (Duran Duran)

"I'm so excited to meet you. I've always modeled myself after 'Ginger.'"

Marla Maples
(10/27/1963 – )
US golddigger (was married to Donald Trump) , to "Gilligan’s Island" actress Tina Louise

"The most badass way to kill a person is with a rocket launcher."

Scott Weiland
(10/27/1967 – )
US singer (Stone Temple Pilots, Velvet Revolver)

"I still can't decide which is more fun—reading or writing."

Rex Stout
(12/01/1886 – 10/27/1975)
English writer (created "Nero Wolfe")

"The only thing I really care about right now is boys. I go for the smelly ones. ... I don't like clean-cut, white picket-fence, khaki pants-wearing boys. All my boyfriends have been really ugly."

Kelly Osbourne
(10/27/1984 – )
English daughter (of Ozzy Osbourne)