BORN TODAY

"People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker." Mary Austin
(09/09/1868 – 08/13/1934)
US writer

"Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act." James Agate
(09/09/1877 – 06/06/1947)
English writer

"There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there." Colonel Harlan Sanders
(09/09/1890 – 12/16/1980)
US chef

"Marriage—a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose." Beverley Nichols
(09/09/1898 – 09/15/1983)
English writer (died near his birthday)

"If you forgive people enough you belong to them, and they to you, whether either person likes it or not—squatter's rights of the heart." James Hilton
(09/09/1900 – 12/20/1954)
English writer

"You call this a script? Give me a couple of $5000.00-a-week writers and I'll write it myself." Joe Pasternak
(09/09/1901 – 09/13/1991)
Transylvania-born producer (died near his birthday) (shown with Connie Francis)

"Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world." Cesare Pavese
(09/09/1908 – 08/27/1950)
Italian writer

"Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more." Edward H. Harriman
(02/25/1848 – 09/09/1909)
US railroad executive

"Few great men could pass Personnel." Paul Goodman
(09/09/1911 – 08/02/1972)
US critic

"This isn't exactly a stable business. It's like trying to stand up in a canoe with your pants down." Cliff Robertson
(09/09/1923 – )
US actor

"Only the untalented can afford to be humble." Sylvia Miles
(09/09/1932 – )
US actor

"Claudia's the sort of person who goes through life holding onto the sides." Alice Thomas Ellis
(09/09/1932 – 03/08/2005)
Welsh writer

"The word 'genius' isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein." Joe Theismann
(09/09/1949 – )
US ex-NFL quarterback ; he later claimed that there was a smart guy named Norman Einstein at