"E'en drunken Andrew felt the blow
That innocence can give,
When its resistless accents flow
To bid affection live. "

Robert Bloomfield
(12/03/1766 – 08/19/1823)
English writer

"He did not see any reason why the devil should have all the good tunes."

Sir Rowland Hill
(12/03/1795 – 08/27/1879)
English clergyman, writer, postmaster

"The Faculty [of Vassar] do not consider it a mere experiment any longer that girls can be educated as well as boys."

Ellen Swallow Richards
(12/03/1842 – 03/30/1911)
US chemist, first woman admitted to MIT

"Words, as is well known, are the great enemies of reality."

Joseph Conrad
(12/03/1857 – 08/03/1924)
Polish-Ukrainian writer

"Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training."

Anna Freud
(12/03/1895 – 10/09/1982)
German psychoanalyst (daughter of Sigmund)

"When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping."

Maria Callas
(12/03/1923 – 09/16/1977)
US diva

"The delight of that place was all the rules you could break."

John W. Backus
(12/03/1924 – 03/17/2007)
US computing pioneer, on the Hill School, a private school he attended as a youth

Georges Franju: "Movies should have a beginning, a middle, and an end."

Jean-Luc Godard: "Certainly, but not necessarily in that order."
(12/03/1930 – )
French director

"I bit the head off a live bat the other night. It was like eating a Crunchie wrapped in chamois leather."

Ozzy Osbourne
(12/03/1948 – )
English singer (father of Kelly)

"That will only happen if I have a bout of amnesia or if I feel like mooning someone in the audience." Daryl Hannah
(12/03/1960 – )
US actor, on getting naked onstage like Jerry Hall

"I'm looking for the truth. The audience doesn't come to see you, they come to see themselves." Julianne Moore
(12/03/1960 – )
US actor

"George of the Jungle is a cartoon. He's a guy who swings around on a vine all day. Are you not buying that?"

Brendan Fraser
(12/03/1967 – )
US actor, on "George of the Jungle"