Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jack Nicholson

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

Bill Cosby

In your 50s, time becomes precious and must not be wasted. Every minute is an excellent opportunity for a good nap. Happy 50th birthday!

Shirley Jones

I think Marty was really surprised. He had been complaining all day that nobody had called about his birthday.

James Hillman

All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?

Groucho Marx

I must confess, I was born at a very early age.

Harvey Weinstein

It's the golden age of French cinema again but it's because Sarkozy had the guts to push through copyright law.

Harold Pinter

My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish.

Isla Fisher

I crashed my boyfriend's birthday when I was 12 years old. He didn't invite me and so I showed up.

I decided since it was my birthday I was going to shoot it anyway.

Tom Flores

I am planning on getting my son a bow for his birthday. By having him take this class and rent a bow, I know what kind to get him.

William Shakespeare

How far that little candle throws his beams!

I call it the birthday cake model. We need to have building codes, but we do not want to turn the town into a homeowners association. One of the reasons I live here is due to the general mind-set that less government is better.

Kevin Youkilis

I remember two years ago a bunch of us went out on the boat and it was my birthday. We had a great time out there. That's the little things you miss. Johnny was a great person. He was the first guy to step in front of the media when things weren't right, when things were right.

Ranbir Kapoor

I'm not a birthday person. Maybe because I don't like to build expectations around that one day. You never know how it'll turn out to be.

Nikki Reed

I've never really made a big deal out of my birthday.

Emma McLaughlin

The more Mommy blogs going nuclear over playground etiquette I read and birthday parties of glazed adults munching cupcakes like demoralized zombies I attend, I realize this is what my friends who conceived before me meant by, 'You just won't care.'

Marianne Williamson

One of the shocks of a 50th birthday is realizing the fundamental fact that your youth is irrevocably over.

Nicolas Ghesquiere

I promised myself: Before your 18th birthday, you're going to be at Jean Paul Gaultier. And it worked. I was hired.

Nigel Hamilton

Traditionally Presidents Day was Washington's birthday. It was celebrated as a public holiday on February 22 each year, in peace or in war.

Neil Jackson

For my 23rd birthday, I received a nylon string guitar. I told myself that if I could play Eric Clapton's 'Tears In Heaven,' then I could play the guitar. I practised every chance I got, driving my housemates insane, until several weeks later I had a shaky version of the song down. I wrote my first song on the guitar a few weeks after that.

We did this to grant Mr. Hawkins his birthday wish for freedom.

Sundar Pichai

If I'm about to forget my kid's birthday, I want the phone to scream at me until I do something about it.

Tabatha Coffey

I turned 40 on the set of the reunion show for 'Sheer Genius,' so it wasn't a hideous birthday because I had everyone on the cast and crew sing 'Happy Birthday' to me, and I won $10,000 for being the fan favorite. It was really liberating to turn 40 and realize that I felt very comfortable with myself and knew who I was.

I worked every day - Christmas Eve, birthdays - trying to become a great basketball player. Everywhere I went, I had a basketball.

Suresh Raina

I've always wanted to buy a sports car. After the England series, I went up to my dad and said that I wanted to buy a sports car and got his consent. On his birthday, I surprised him by bringing it home. It's a Porsche Boxter Limited Edition, and my family was thrilled to see it.

Gene Siskel

For my 50th birthday, I got ahold of a new print of 'Saturday Night Fever.' I see it much more as a tough coming-of-age movie than as a disco story.

When you're an expert in a subject, you can retain new factoids on your favorite topic easily. This only works for the subjects you're truly passionate about, though. Baseball fans can reel off stats for their favorite players, then space out on their own birthday.

Deval Patrick

The summer before my third year of law school, I worked at a law firm in Washington, D.C. I turned 25 that July, and on my birthday, my father happened to be playing in a local jazz club called Pigfoot and invited me to join him. I hadn't spent a birthday with him since I was 3, but I agreed.

Ben Shapiro

Washington's birthday is worthy of celebration - he is one of the greatest men in history. But Washington himself would likely have seen celebration of the office of the presidency itself as monarchic in nature.

We had one gentleman celebrate his 70th birthday during our last dance (in January).

A. N. Wilson

Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.

You know what I did? ... I bought every client in the shop a bouquet of flowers. They thought I was crazy. But I said, 'Why? I like you, I love you.' All of a sudden one of them said, 'It's my birthday today. I've gotten two bouquets of flowers!'

With the Warner-Lambert merger completed, and having recently reached my 64th birthday, it is a good time to share with you my plans for retirement and for executive succession.