45th Birthday Funny Quotes & Sayings

Why then the human voice, rather than a hyena's howls or the clanging of a hammer? Answer, so that the shock may not be too great, when the writhings of true lips meet his gaze. Between them they find a rejoinder to everything. And how they enjoy talking, they know there is no worse torment, for one not in the conversation. — Samuel Beckett

I don't do storyboarding, ever; I'm not interested in that. — Steven Rodney McQueen

One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding. — Joseph Addison

I seem to enjoy telling stories with a central absence, with a lacuna tunnelled into them. — Junot Diaz

The military infrastructure grew me. My faith in God is important, my belief in my country is important, my relationship to my family is important, the things that Mom and Dad tell you growing up are important. — Tommy Franks

Attitude is the mind's paintbrush. It can color any situation. — Anonymous

LOVE is measured in GAUGE TWENTY- specifically, love pressure in the surrounding area. If it drops below four percent, though, you may have trouble-the VW might get sad, slow down, or even stop altogether. If this occurs, you have to immediately find/write a story that somehow convinces him that there is more love, caring or compassion in the area than he thinks there is. I can't tell you how many times this has been a problem for us- how many trips were interrupted because I had to head into the nearest populated town to see if we could find examples of kindness. — Christopher Boucher

But there's so much kludge, so much terrible stuff, we are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet. That's where we are. We don't get our hair caught in it, but that's the level of primitiveness of where we are. We're in 1908. — Jeff Bezos

And I was crying for gravity. It had sent me down the stairs, and I'd thought that meant something, but maybe it was just the direction that all things tend to flow. — Gabrielle Zevin

I don't want to be someone in my sixties holding on to a group that I created when I was in my twenties. — Zainab Salbi

You know what scholars are like; no conscience at all when it comes to their own field, let alone a sense of social delicacy. — Diana Gabaldon

My words are like Mummy: butterflies trapped inside a net. — Holly Bodger

The quality of your commitments will determine the course of your life. — Ralph Marston