"There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime."

Maxwell Anderson
(12/15/1888 – 02/28/1959)
US playwright, on George Washington

"If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars."

J. Paul Getty
(12/15/1892 – 06/06/1976)
US zillionaire

"Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory."

Betty Smith
(12/15/1896 – 01/17/1972)
US writer

"By and by
God caught his eye."

David McCord
(12/15/1897 – 04/13/1997)
US writer, epitaph for a waiter

"Twelve? Who needs twelve? Couldn't we make do with six?"

Lew Grade
(12/15/1906 – 12/12/1998)
Ukrainian producer, on filming apostles

"The universe is made of stories, not atoms."

Muriel Rukeyser
(12/15/1913 – 02/12/1980)
US writer

"It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment."

Freeman Dyson
(12/15/1923 – )
English physicist

"The vote, I thought, means nothing to women. We should be armed."

Edna O'Brien
(12/15/1932 – )
Irish writer

"I can do whatever I want—I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you." Don Johnson
(12/15/1949 – )
US actor (was married to Melanie Griffith)

"Spielberg isn't a filmmaker, he's a confectioner."

Alex Cox
(12/15/1954 – )
English actor, director, writer