1970 Birthday Quotes & Sayings

Why is it so easy to acquire the solutions of past problems and so difficult to solve current ones — Marshall McLuhan

If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. — C.S. Lewis

There is probably nothing more sublime than discontent transmuted into a work of art, a scientific discovery, and so on. — Eric Hoffer

Over the last few millennia we've invented a series of technologies - from the alphabet to the scroll to the codex, the printing press, photography, the computer, the smartphone - that have made it progressively easier and easier for us to externalize our memories, for us to essentially outsource this fundamental human capacity. — Joshua Foer

For nourishment, consolation, exhilaration, and refreshment, no wine can rival the love of Jesus. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

If a rhinoceros were to enter this restaurant now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I should be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever. — G.K. Chesterton

The brute animals have all the same sensations of pain as human beings, and consequently endure as much pain when their body is hurt; but in their case the cruelty of torment is greater, because they have no mind to bear them up against their sufferings, and no hope to look forward to when enduring the last extreme pain. — Thomas Chalmers

Over the years, HIV/AIDS activists and their allies have been pioneers in creating new frontiers in the medical establishment. Through their efforts, the FDA drug approval procedures were reformed so promising new therapies could reach desperate patients quicker. — David Mixner

When you're playing country music, you have to tell the truth. — Christian Kane

Survival is an ancient dream
Life is nothing but an everlasting illusion
Nothing is Real
Don't believe in illusion,
Remember me,
I am here ... — Rixa White

Family is the best. I can honestly say, it's a gift that is beyond making art. I didn't know that when I got into it. — Stephen Malkmus

Wait." Stefan's voice was hard suddenly. Bonnie and Elena turned back and froze, embracing each other, trembling. "What is your - your father - going to do to you when he finds out that you allowed this?"
"He will not kill me," Sage said brusquely, the wild tone back in his voice. "He may even find it as amusant as I do, and we will be sharing a belly laugh tomorrow. — L.J.Smith

You ever dip your biscuit in your tea and it breaks? I swear now, you never get used to that. — Peter Kay

We all need to take a proper break once in a while. — Samantha Sotto