"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."

Hector Berlioz
(12/11/1803 – 03/08/1869)
French composer

"How glorious it is—and also how painful—to be an exception."

Alfred de Musset
(12/11/1810 – 05/02/1857)
French writer

"When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination."

Ellen Key
(12/11/1849 – 04/25/1926)
Swedish writer

"The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world."

Max Born
(12/11/1882 – 01/05/1970)
German physicist

"There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets."

Fiorello La Guardia
(12/11/1882 – 09/20/1947)
US mayor (NYC)

"Happy is he who can give himself up."

Naguib Mahfouz
(12/11/1911 – 08/30/2006)
Egyptian writer

"In our country, the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State."

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
(12/11/1918 – 08/03/2008)
Russian writer

"Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world."

Grace Paley
(12/11/1922 – 08/22/2007)
US writer

"Bigger than life is not difficult for me. I am bigger than life."

Rita Moreno
(12/11/1931 – )
Puerto Rican actor, first to win an Oscar, a Tony, an Emmy, and a Grammy

"Jesus was a crackpot."

Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
(12/11/1931 – 01/19/1990)
Indian spiritual leader

"How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?"

John Kerry
(12/11/1943 – )
US senator (MA), on Vietnam

"I've always had this American-pie face that would get work in commercials...I'd say things like 'Hi Marge, how's your laundry?' and 'Hi, I'm a real nice Georgia peach'. Sometimes this work is one step above being a cocktail waitress."

Teri Garr
(12/11/1949 – )
US actor

"Rich girls need it, too."

Christina Onassis
(12/11/1950 – 11/19/1988)
US rich girl (daughter of Aristotle Onassis)

"I hate things that are diluted—I mean, you don't mix Jack Daniel's with Coke. That's a sin!"

Nikki Sixx
(12/11/1958 – )
US bassist (Motley Crue) (also see Tommy Lee)