Birth Quotes - Page 8

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present.

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.

Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.

Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

The main prank that we play with props is for people's birthdays. The special effects people will put a little explosive in the cake so it blows up in their face - that's always fun to play on a guest star, or one of the trainees or someone who's new.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

Life has no opposite. The opposite of death is birth. Life is eternal.

Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of a jam.

Marriage is not about age; it's about finding the right person.

most men and women, by birth or nature, lack the means to advance in wealth or power, but all have the ability to advance in knowledge.

On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective.

The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'

I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.

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

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Cakes are special. Every birthday, every celebration ends with something sweet, a cake, and people remember. It's all about the memories.

In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.

The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.