200th Birthday Quotes & Sayings

The division of the Roman world between the sons of Theodosius marks the final establishment of the empire of the East, which, from the reign of Arcadius to the taking of Constantinople by the Turks, subsisted one thousand and fifty-eight years in a state of premature and perpetual decay. — Edward Gibbon

I never imagined I would have one fan, and there seems to be a few. I just couldn't be happier that people seem to like what I'm doing and seem to respond to it. If they weren't there, I don't know what I'd be doing right now. — Matthew Gray Gubler

When was the last time you used the words 'teach me'? Maybe not since you started first grade? Here's an irony about school: The daily grind of tests, homework, and pressures sometimes blunts rather than stimulates a thirst for knowledge. — Jerry Spinelli

I really admire police officers, surgeons, or anyone who works in high stressed situations. — Yasmin Paige

She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitchfork. — Jonathan Swift

Hillary showed off a new set of White House china at the mansion's 200th birthday dinner Thursday. She said she helped design it. It's thanks to her that all the White House china looks like it's been glued back together. — Argus Hamilton

You can dance anywhere and you can dance in your mind, in your heart. — Jacques D'Amboise

There are silences made just for us. — Roberto Bolano

Life is blank without love — Jagannath Hembram

Why did I allow myself to be bored ever in the past and to compensate for it got high or drunk or rages or all the tricks people have because they want anything but serene understanding of just what there is, which is after all so much. — Jack Kerouac

And it's a crime because the great plays of history, going all the way back to the Greeks, are part of everybody's heritage. It's just like in music, Beethoven or Mozart, that's everybody's heritage. — Tony Randall

Everything vanishes round me and good works rise from me of their own accord. — Paul Klee