Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Russell Lowell

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

Paulo Coelho

Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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?

Paul McCartney

...We can work it out. Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting, my friend.

Paulina Porizkova

I was fired by 'America's Next Top Model' on my birthday.

Paulina Porizkova

My first recognition of age setting in was exactly on my 36th birthday. I have no idea why, on this day of all days, I looked in the mirror and realized my face no longer looked young.

Mary Pickford

I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely.

Emma Thompson

If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it.

Heidi Klum

I can't look in the mirror and look at fake things. I just can't. I'd rather age.

John Irving

I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write.

John Heywood

Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?

Lauren Hutton

We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.

Lew Wallace

A man thirty years old, I said to myself, should have his field of life all ploughed, and his planting well done; for after that it is summer time.

Lewis Carroll

There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.

Joseph Campbell

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.

Joy Page

If every year is a marble, how many marbles do you have left? How many sunrises, how many opportunities to rise to the full stature of your being?