"Weary Willie is very real to me. He is a man who has given up. The boat has gone and left him. The cards are stacked against him. He's content to make out with what he's got. He knows he'll go no further." — Emmett Kelly, American clown, born 1898
"I didn't want to move or act like a rich man. I wanted to dance in a pair of jeans. I wanted to dance like the man in the streets." — Gene Kelly, American actor, born 1912
"At 14 I discovered girls. At that time dancing was the only way you could put your arm around the girl. Dancing was courtship." — Gene Kelly, American actor, born 1912
"You dance love, and you dance joy, and you dance dreams. And I know if I can make you smile by jumping over a couple of couches or running through a rainstorm, then I'll be very glad to be a song and dance man." — Gene Kelly, American actor, born 1912
"Mr. Hitchcock taught me everything about cinema. It was thanks to him that I understood that murder scenes should be shot like love scenes and love scenes like murder scenes." — Grace Kelly, American-Monacan actress, born 1929
"Once you can express yourself, you can tell the world what you want from it. All the changes in the world, for good or evil, were first brought about by words." — Jacqueline Kennedy, 37th First Lady of the United States, born 1929
"I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting." — Jacqueline Kennedy, 37th First Lady of the United States, born 1929
"There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed." — Jacqueline Kennedy, 37th First Lady of the United States, born 1929
"Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder." — John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States, born 1917
"When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses." — John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States, born 1917
"We do these things not because they are easy but because they are hard." — John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States, born 1917
"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining." — John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States, born 1917
"Some believe there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous array of the world’s ills. Yet many of the world’s great movements, of thought and action, have flowed from the work of a single man." — Robert F. Kennedy, American politician, born 1925
"Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were, and say why not." — Robert F. Kennedy, American politician, born 1925