"Orthodoxy is my doxy; heterodoxy is another man's doxy."

William Warburton
(12/24/1698 – 06/07/1779)
English bishop, literary critic

"Feed the musician, and he's out of tune."

George Crabbe
(12/24/1754 – 02/03/1832)
English writer

"Journalism is literature in a hurry."

Matthew Arnold
(12/24/1822 – 04/15/1888)
English writer

"Where it is a duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat."

Lord Viscount John Morley
(12/24/1838 – 09/23/1923)
English historian

"Darling, you stink so beautiful."

Michael Curtiz
(12/24/1898 – 04/11/1962)
US film director, to a perfumed actress

"Clark Gable's ears make him look like a taxicab with both doors open."

Howard Hughes
(12/24/1905 – 04/05/1976)
US zillionaire (nephew of Rupert Hughes)

"The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure."

I. F. Stone
(12/24/1907 – 06/18/1989)
US writer

"Deep down I'm pretty superficial." Ava Gardner
(12/24/1922 – 01/25/1990)
US actor (was married to Frank Sinatra, Artie Shaw, Mickey Rooney)

"The first four months of writing the book, my mental image is scratching with my hands through granite. My other image is pushing a train up the mountain, and it's icy, and I'm in bare feet."

Mary Higgins Clark
(12/24/1927 – )
US writer

"Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you."

Jill Bennett
(12/24/1931 – 10/04/1990)
Malayan actor (was married to John Osborne)

"For those who missed it the first time, this is your golden opportunity; you can miss it again."

Michael Billington
(12/24/1941 – 06/03/2005)
English actor

"It will be so dirty that if we moved in next to you, your lawn would die."

Lemmy Kilmister
(12/24/1945 – )
English bassist, on Motörhead's music