22th Birthday Quotes & Sayings

Pop is everything art hasn't been for the last two decades ... It springs newborn out of a boredom with the finality and over-saturation of Abstract-Expressionism, which, by its own esthetic logic, is the END of art, the glorious pinnacle of the long pyramidal creative process. Stifled by this rarefied atmosphere, some young painters turn back to some less exalted things like Coca-Cola, ice-cream sodas, big hamburgers, super-markets and 'EAT' signs. They are eye-hungry; they pop ... — Robert Indiana

I like the idea of doing something outside my comfort zone. — Joe Wright

Only a fool believes a thing of value will be laid in her lap with no reckoning. — Brian Staveley

Well, I jumped for the first time when I was 16. I just loved it and immediately realized that it was what I wanted to do. — Felix Baumgartner

Oh-my-Father-and-oh-the-delight-of-my-eyes," began the young man, muttering the words very quickly and sulkily and not at all as if the Tisroc were the delight of his eyes. — C.S. Lewis

Everyone can feel the nothingness, the void, just beneath the surface of everyday routines and securities. — John Zerzan

My dream: to be able to drive a virus-powered car. — Angela Belcher

Americans worship the Constitution but do not observe it. — Gore Vidal

What do you put in that coffee? Two teaspoons of bitch powder? — Zathyn Priest

You're hair was softer than I expected it to be, more beautiful when it's down than I expected it to be. You're sweeter than I expected you to be, funnier, more loyal and I expected all that to be phenomenal so, I gotta tell you, baby, it pleases me no fuckin' end to learn the reality is off-the-charts. Better than that, when you get pissed, I gotta fight against goin' hard. When you smile, I gotta fight against goin' hard. And when you look deep into my eyes and see whatever the fuck you see and I know how much you like it because it's written all over your face, I gotta fight against goin' hard. But even with the promise of that, finally havin' you is another reality that's off-the-charts. — Kristen Ashley

And in our time, when a man dies
if he has had wealth and influence and power and all the vestments that arouse envy, and after the living take stock of the dead man's property and his eminence and works and monuments
the question is still there: Was his life good or was it evil?
which is another way of putting Croesus's question. Envies are gone, and the measuring stick is: Was he loved or was he hated? Is his death felt as a loss or does a kind of joy come of it? — John Steinbeck

The truth is you don't like the theater except the times when you're in a room by yourself putting the play on paper. — Dashiell Hammett

His heart line was long and curved, and she traced it with her eyes over and over again. A person with a curved heart line was a person capable of great warmth and kindness, a person willing to give their whole selves to love, no matter the cost. — Leslye Walton

Our books still do not require batteries. But I am no fool. It is a slender advantage. — Robin Sloan