January 20

"The boughs that bear most hang lowest."

David Garrick
(02/19/1717 – 01/20/1779)
English actor, writer ("Miss in Her Teens; or The Medley of Lovers")

"Look a here people, listen to me,
Don't try to find no home in Washington, D.C.
Lord, it's a bourgeois town, it's a bourgeois town."

Leadbelly
(01/20/1888 – 12/06/1949)
US singer

"Critics are eunuchs at a gang bang."

George Burns
(01/20/1896 – 03/09/1996)
US comic, actor
(was married to Gracie Allen)

"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper."

John Ruskin
(02/08/1819 – 01/20/1900)
English critic ("Modern Painters")

"If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning."

Aristotle Onassis
(01/20/1906 – 03/15/1975)
Greek zillionaire
(was married to Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, father of Christina Onassis)

"All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography."

Federico Fellini
(01/20/1920 – 10/31/1993)
Italian filmmaker ("8 1/2")

"When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. When you call on a jackass, he kicks."

Patricia Neal
(01/20/1926 – 08/08/2010)
US actor
(was married to Roald Dahl)

"Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance."

King George V
(06/03/1865 – 01/20/1936)
British monarch

"I've said many, many, many unkind things about Philadelphia, and I meant every one."

David Lynch
(01/20/1946 – )
US filmmaker ("Eraserhead")
(was partners with Isabella Rossellini)

"Technology is Darwinian. It spreads. It evolves. It adapts. The most dangerous wipes out the less fit."

Nancy Kress
(01/20/1948 – )
US writer ("Beggars in Spain")

"The Bible looks like it started out as a game of Mad Libs."

Bill Maher
(01/20/1956 – )
US comic ("Religulous")

"The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth."

Robinson Jeffers
(01/10/1887 – 01/20/1962)
US writer ("Shine, Perishing Republic")

"A guy may wear a suit and have a high-paying job and appear very mature, but essentially, he's a 14-year-old boy."

Rainn Wilson
(01/20/1966 – )
US actor

"I'm disappointed in acting as a craft. I want everything to go back to Orson Welles and fake noses and changing your voice. It's become so much about personality."

Skeet Ulrich
(01/20/1970 – )
US actor

"These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves."

Gilbert Highet
(06/22/1906 – 01/20/1978)
US writer ("Another Solution")

"Can you imagine—a blond Tarzan?"

Johnny Weissmuller
(06/02/1904 – 01/20/1984)
Austro-Hungarian swimmer, actor
(was married to Lupe Velez)

"Never darken my Dior again!"

Beatrice Lillie
(05/29/1894 – 01/20/1989)
Canadian actor ("On Approval") , to a waiter who spilled soup on her dress

"Her body has gone to her head."

Barbara Stanwyck
(07/16/1907 – 01/20/1990)
US actor , on Marilyn Monroe
(was married to Robert Taylor)

"I never thought I'd land in pictures with a face like mine."

Audrey Hepburn
(05/04/1929 – 01/20/1993)
Belgium-born actor ("Roman Holiday")
(no relation to Katharine Hepburn)