BORN TODAY

"Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?" Julius III
(09/10/1487 – 03/23/1555)
Italian Pope

"Rise with the hour for which you were made." Georgia Douglas Johnson
(09/10/1880 – 05/14/1966)
US writer

"Yes, it's hard to write, but it's harder not to." Carl van Doren
(09/10/1885 – 07/18/1950)
US writer, educator

"Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women." Elsa Schiaparelli
(09/10/1890 – 11/13/1973)
Italian-French designer

"Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy." Franz Werfel
(09/10/1890 – 08/26/1945)
German writer (was married to Alma Schindler)

"He could not blow his nose without moralising on the state of the handkerchief industry." Cyril Connolly
(09/10/1903 – 11/26/1974)
English writer , on George Orwell

"The road to success is always under construction." Arnold Palmer
(09/10/1929 – )
US golfer

"Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything." Charles Kuralt
(09/10/1934 – 07/04/1997)
US telejournalist

"Candlestick was built on the water. It should have been built under it." Roger Maris
(09/10/1934 – 12/14/1985)
US baseball player

"The time has come for all good men to rise above principle." Huey Long
(08/30/1893 – 09/10/1935)
US Senator (LA)

"I want to be more than a rose in my husband's lapel." Margaret Trudeau
(09/10/1948 – )
Canadian first lady

"You stick around long enough and you get noticed." Joe Perry
(09/10/1950 – )
US guitarist (Aerosmith) (also see Steven Tyler)

"Pithy is as pithy does." Linda Pedisich
(09/10/1950 – )
US friend of quotekeeper (no hurry to choose a career!)

"In the U.S., with very few exceptions, actresses older than 35 are simply discarded." Amy Irving
(09/10/1953 – )
US actor (was married to Steven Spielberg)

"The English people, a lot of them, would not be able to understand a word of spoken Shakespeare. There are people who do and I'm not denying they exist. But it's a far more philistine country than people think." Colin Firth
(09/10/1960 – )
English actor

"We are not that flash, me or the missus. In fact, we are quite low-maintenance." Guy Ritchie
(09/10/1968 – )
English film director (married to Madonna)

"Music is my greatest love. If I could play an instrument I would be a musician." Ryan Phillippe
(09/10/1974 – )
US actor (was married to Reese Witherspoon)

"Now the truth of the matter is that there are a lot of things people don't understand. Take the Einstein theory. Take taxes. Take love. Do you understand them? Neither do I. But they exist. They happen." Dalton Trumbo
(12/09/1905 – 09/10/1976)
US writer

"For 10 years I was the wisecracking lady reporter who stormed the city desk snapping, `Stop the presses! I've got a story that will break this town wide open!'" Jane Wyman
(01/04/1914 – 09/10/2007)
US actor (was married to Ronald Reagan; mother of Maureen Reagan and Michael Reagan)

"If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just." Anita Roddick
(10/23/1942 – 09/10/2007)
English businesswoman (The Body Shop)