Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brit Marling

I get uncomfortable when people give me presents and watch me open them. I don't have birthday parties, because the idea of a group of people singing and looking at me while I'm blowing out candles gives me hives.

This win was a great birthday present. We had a tremendous effort, especially in the second half. Our guys stepped it up a notch. To hold this Bulls teams to 30 points in a half is unbelievable.

Ben Stein

It's really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn't even more fraud. After all, with no God, there's no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.

Ashley Jensen

As a child, I always chose a false nose and some face paint and a wig for my birthday.

Bruce Springsteen

I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along.

Brian Jones

Something to remember on your birthday..Forget the past, it can't be changed..And, forget the present because I didn't get you one.

Brad Garrett

You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness.

Jane Fonda

It's hard for women at my age in Hollywood, but I'm not discouraged.

Jane Fonda

The reality is sobering: in the United States one in three girls will become pregnant before age 20, totaling more than 750,000 girls per year.

Jane Fonda

We can no longer waste time and money. Every day, more than 2,000 girls in America, age 15-19, give birth - in the wealthiest, most educated nation in the world! Neither you nor I should accept this statistic.

Jane Fonda

We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.

Larry Fitzgerald

I enjoy working with the American Cancer Society because I fully support its mission of saving lives and creating a world with less cancer and more birthdays for everyone.

Paul Simon

Yesterday, it was my birthday I hung one more year on the line I should be depressed My life's a mess But I'm Having A Good Time...

Paul Simon

Yesterday, it was my birthday I hung one more year on the line I should be depressed My life's a mess But I'm Having A Good Time...

We didn't wait for a holiday or a birthday or anything like that to get together. It was just the thing to do on the weekends, be together.

Zell Miller

when I counted the candles on my birthday cake and cringed.

Barry White

I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.

Baltasar Gracian

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.

Aung San Suu Kyi

At this age, I should be leading a quiet life.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.

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.

Bob Dylan

May you stay Forever Young

Brigitte Bardot

What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

Brigitte Bardot

Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

Brandy Norwood

All my favorite stars, my family and my friends are here. I'm having the happiest birthday that an 18-year-old girl could ever have.

Bono

What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.

Barbara Cartland

After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.

Artie Lange

In Hollywood, there is another name for a woman's 40th birthday party, it's a retirement party.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Brittany Snow

I grew up doing all that stuff because I was obsessed with the '50s. I had sock hops for birthday parties. So I've always done The Twist and stuff. It was pretty natural and, with my parents doing it all the time, I'd just copy them. Not very pretty.