Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rainer Maria Rilke

There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.

Michael Weatherly

I started running around my 30th birthday. I wanted to lose weight; I didn't anticipate the serenity. Being in motion, suddenly my body was busy and so my head could work out some issues I had swept under a carpet of wine and cheese. Good therapy, that's a good run.

Sienna Miller

I would often find myself, at the age of 21, at midnight, running down a dark street on my own with 10 men chasing me. And the fact they had cameras in their hands made that legal.

Sienna Miller

I feel we live in the kind of culture now where you have to be very smart to navigate the right way, and I just don't have those smarts. I think with age and time it will change, but I can't obsess about it.

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.

Mariella Frostrup

We invest less in our friendships and expect more of friends than any other relationship. We spend days working out where to book for a romantic dinner, weeks wondering how to celebrate a partner or parent's birthday, and seconds forgetting a friend's important anniversary.

John Ruskin

Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.

Jerry Seinfeld

Well, birthdays are merely symbolic of how another year has gone by and how little we've grown. No matter how desperate we are that someday a better self will emerge, with each flicker of the candles on the cake, we know it's not to be, that for the rest of our sad, wretched pathetic lives, this is who we are to the bitter end. Inevitably, irrevocably; happy birthday? No such thing.

Jesse McCartney

All I watch is the Food Network. I took a cheese making class a few weeks ago, and I told my family and friends to only get me kitchen stuff on my birthday. I'm into every kind of cookbook and anything by Anthony Bourdain. I'd love to own a restaurant if I could find the right chef.

George W. Bush

I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun.

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!

Georges Clemenceau

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

Eminem

The kids are old enough now - I just want to let them be kids. I don't want to comment on them too much. They're at an age where I just want to let them be kids.

Gerald Finzi

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

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.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example.

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.