Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonathan Swift

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.

Kevin Smith

I saw Richard Linklater's film 'Slacker' for my twenty-first birthday. That was the moment when it all seemed possible. This guy gave me hope.

Kevin Spacey

If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!

Lance Burton

We didn't have a whole lot of money when I was growing up either. I would always ask for magic books or magic tricks for my birthday or for Christmas and the rest of the year I either had to mow lawns or find part time jobs to help supplement the cost of doing magic.

Lisa Loeb

When someone asks if you'd like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie?

James Joyce

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

James Rollins

The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book.

James Russell Lowell

A man is old when he can pass an apple orchard and not remember the stomachache.

Marc Jacobs

I am Marc Jacobs by birth, but we are Marc Jacobs by the company that we built.

Paulo Coelho

Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.

Marianne Moore

We prove, we do not explain, our birth,

Maria Sharapova

I've been very competitive by nature from a young age, whether it was eating a bowl of pasta faster than somebody else, or always wanting to be the first one in line.

Max Ernst

I succeeded in simply attending at the birth of all my works.

Maureen O'Hara

John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time.

Matthew Sweet

I went to a rare live Van Dyke show and met him there. And then he came to a show of mine and we spoke back stage. The third time was at Brian Wilson's birthday party.

Matthew Sweet

The summer of 2002 at the Wilson birthday party I met Van Dyke again and I made plans to have dinner with him.

Matthew Macfadyen

I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I feel the same now. I get nervous, then it's fine.

The fools take pride in themselves, and are ruined in birth and death.

Jonathan Hickman

The first comic book I ever read was an issue of 'Legion of Super-Heroes' where the earth was surrounded by all of these chains. I remember the cover; I got it at a birthday party.

Jim Gilmore

The company could offer a birthday venue at its distribution center by designing a room with a glass wall looking out to the warehouse.

The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.

Madeleine L'Engle

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

John F. Kennedy

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.

Rachael Ray

I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.

Preston Sturges

You can't go around the theatres handing out cards saying, 'It isn't my fault'. You go onto the next one.

Prince

Why party like it is 1999 when you can party like it is your birthday?

Phyllis Smith

IMDB's not the most accurate. Even my birth place and my age are wrong there.

Phoebe Cary

Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the living heart.

Pope John XXIII

Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

Julie Walters

It seems that when you get to a certain age you almost give yourself permission to misbehave and say what you think. People allow it, with very old people.

Paul Klee

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Paul McCartney

Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm sixty-four?