31st Bday Quotes & Sayings

The reader! You, dogged, uninsultable, print-oriented bastard, it's you I'm addressing, who else, from inside this monstrous fiction. You've read me this far, then? Even this far? For what discreditable motive? How is it you don't go to a movie, watch TV, stare at a wall, play tennis with a friend, make amorous advances to the person who comes to your mind when I speak of amorous advances? Can nothing surfeit, saturate you, turn you off? Where's your shame? — John Barth

The total number of such worlds are, as I said, something of the order of a trillion, or 10^12, a one followed by twelve zeros, of which Earth represents just one, all in the family of the Sun. And our star, of course, is one of a vast multitude. — Carl Sagan

The bizarre world of cards is a world of pure power politics where rewards and punishments are meted out immediately. — Ely Culbertson

Eeyore, the old grey donkey, stood by the side of the stream and looked at himself in the water. "Pathetic," he said. "That's what it is. Pathetic." — A.A. Milne

I don't want to wear my compositional tools on my sleeve. — Lou Harrison

Oh well, maybe the only beauty left in cities is in the oil slicks on the road and maybe there isn't any beauty left in the people who live in these places. — Rita Mae Brown

The plastic surgeon's knife slashes at time, which may seem to retreat, but then keeps on coming. — Mason Cooley

'On earth the living have much to bear;' the difference is chiefly in the manner of bearing, and my manner of bearing is far from being the best. — Jane Welsh Carlyle

Once I was a lamb, playing in a green field. Then the wolves came. Now I am an eagle and I fly in a different universe. — David Gemmell

We yogied this from day hikers for you. — Cheryl Strayed

I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ingredients in it. — Abigail Washburn

I don't know why that putt hung on the edge. I'm a clean liver. It must be my caddie. — JoAnne Carner

I did love him. But I did not love him like I loved Dutchy: beyond reason. Maybe you only get one of those in a lifetime, I don't know. But it was all right. It was enough. — Christina Baker Kline