Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel Handler

I like to give people novels I think they would like, on no particular occasion - just when we're in a bookstore together. I like to receive reference books on my birthday.

Danica McKellar

I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.

Dag Hammarskjold

If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.

Connie Britton

For my birthday this year, my girlfriends - who knew I'd just inherited my dad's turntable - gave me a carton of albums like 'Blue Kentucky Girl,' by Emmylou Harris, and 'Off the Wall,' by Michael Jackson. It's all stuff we grew up with. I mean, you can't have a music collection without Prince's 'Purple ain' - it just can't be done!

Colin Firth

I think it's quite extraordinary that people cast me as if I'm Warren Beatty: until I met my present wife, at the age of 35, you could name two girlfriends.

Colin White

I'm very happy. I'd like to say hello to my daughter who's birthday it was yesterday, but this is for our team member Tony who's sadly not with us any more.

Amanda Marshall

I never got a chocolate birthday cake; I got a carob one. And when I went to other kids' houses, I was very covetous of things like Cheez Whiz that I'd find in their refrigerators.

Celine Dion

I often buy myself presents. Sometimes I will spend $100,000 in one day in a posh boutique.

David Walker

In the middle, middle of the monsoon season, lying there soaking wet and the spoilsports didn't come! And that's when I had, because I can always remember just lying there saying to myself, the water just running down my neck and that, I said, 'Well David. There's not many people get a twenty first birthday party like this.'

Bill Ward

I guess this feels like four Birthdays and four Christmases, ... First, we're going to see family and have dinner. I want to see everybody again-- just kind of see who grew up and who changed.

Frank Robinson

I guess they decided to give me a birthday present.

David Gilmour

I had a great party for my 50th birthday, and I'm having a nice little one this time. But it's sad how many people aren't going to be there, because they've died in the intervening years. There's been a lot of carnage around me, and I'm sort of looking at that list.

Richard Gasquet

Being in the final is a great birthday present,

His birthday is something I do enjoy pointing out or celebrating or recognizing myself personally, because that was always a lot of fun with him.

Jack Nicholson

I can't hit on women in public any more. I didn't decide this; it just doesn't feel right at my age.

Jack Nicholson

Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.

J. B. Priestley

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.

Isaac Watts

Everyday is a birthday; every moment of it is new to us; we are born again, renewed for fresh work and endeavor.

Francis Escudero

Because of so many people who remembered his birthday, I can now see that he will be successful in whatever position he will run for in the future. It's because he knows how to love, so many love him in return. He's a sincere man. Happy birthday!

Hopefully it is the only birthday this hearing will have, though, your honour, ... We will see!

George Burns

People ask me what I'd most appreciate getting for my eighty-seventh birthday. I tell them, a paternity suit.

George Burns

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

George Bernard Shaw

The greatest thing in life is to die young - but delay it as long as possible.

Erica Jong

At fifty the madwoman in the attic breaks loose, stomps down the stairs, and sets fire to the house. She won't be imprisoned anymore.

Chris Bosh

I haven't won on my birthday since college, so it's good to play hard and get a win by double figures.

Andy Roddick

I really honestly wish I didn't have a birthday in this tournament.

Jean Nidetch

I don't really remember, but I'm positive that whenever I cried, my mother gave me something to eat. I'm sure that whenever I had a fight with the little girl next door, or it was raining and I couldn't go out, or I wasn't invited to a birthday party, my mother gave me a piece of candy to make me feel better.

Harrison Ford

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Gerald Finzi

There is no room in the world, as you say, for second rate work.

Clint Eastwood

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

Daniel Day-Lewis

At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.

Richard Herring

What we're doing, we're just ceasing to show a regular movie program. We're still going to be able to accommodate school groups, church groups, birthday parties, what we call special shows.

Aaron Rodgers

Brett was phenomenal today, ... The day before his 36th birthday, he looked like a 22-year-old out there. Unbelievable.