Birthday Quotes - Page 30

Nearly all our powerful men in this age of the world are unbelievers; the best of them in doubt and misery; the worst in reckless defiance; the plurality, in plodding hesitation, doing, as well as they can, what practical work lies ready to their hands.

No false knight or lying priest ever prospered, I believe, in any age, but certainly not in the dark ones. Men prospered then, only in following openly-declared purposes , and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday.

Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?

Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly.

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

After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.

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

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

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.

When I was little I thought, isn't it nice that everybody celebrates on my birthday? Because it's July 4th.

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

I'm 60 years of age. That's 16 Celsius.

The greatest thing in life is to die young - but delay it as long as possible.

Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.

The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.

You've heard of the three ages of man - youth, age, and you are looking wonderful.

O life! An age to the miserable, a moment to the happy.

And will you succeed? Yes, you will indeed!

Time marches on and sooner or later you realize it is marching across your face.

Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap.

I am a big popcorn fanatic. I love popcorn. In fact one year for my birthday, my husband bought me one of those big popcorn machines like they have in movie theaters.

When I was young and it was someone's birthday, I didn't have the money to buy nice presents so I would take my mom's camera and make a movie parody for whoever's birthday it was. When I'd show it them, they'd die laughing. That reaction was a high for me, and I loved that feeling.

I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.