"Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes."
Walter Gropius
(05/18/1883 – 07/05/1969
German architect

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."
Lord Bertrand Russell
(05/18/1872 – 02/02/1970)
Welsh philosopher

"These days, what isn't worth saying is sung."
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
(01/24/1732 – 05/18/1799)
French polymath

"And that inverted Bowl we call The Sky,
Whereunder crawling coop't we live and die,
Lift not thy hands to It for help—for It
Rolls impotently on as Thou or I."
Omar Khayyam
(05/18/1048 – 12/04/1131)
Persian writer, mathematician

"The first seven were pretty good."
Dennis Hopper
(05/17/1936 – 05/29/2010)
US actor , on his eight-day marriage to Michelle Phillips

"I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow Airport for myself."
Dennis Potter
(05/17/1935 – 06/07/1994)
English writer

"You cannot run faster than a bullet."
Idi Amin Dada
(05/17/1925 – 08/16/2003);
African dictator

"There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment possibilities than the television set."
Harriet van Horne
(05/17/1920 – 01/15/1998)
US columnist

"A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist." *
Stewart Alsop
(05/17/1914 – 05/26/1974)
US journalist

"Cheetah bit me whenever he could. The [Tarzan] apes were all homosexuals, eager to wrap their paws around Johnny Weissmuller's thighs. They were jealous of me, and I loathed them."
Maureen O'Sullivan
(05/17/1911 – 06/23/1998)
Irish actor
(was married to John Farrow; mother of Mia Farrow)