Quotes & Sayings About 50th Birthday Cakes

[At the end of the story, its main character, Tom] is now a great man of science, and can plan railroads, and steam-engines, and electric telegraphs, and rifled guns, and so forth; and knows everything about everything, except why a hen's egg don't turn into a crocodile, and two or three other little things that no one will know till the coming of the Cocqcigrues. — Charles Kingsley

Mummy and Daddy want him to be an evil genius, but he has his heart set on Latin verse. Don't you, Pill?" The boy gave his sister a nasty stare. "Pillover is terribly bad at being bad, if you take my meaning. Our daddy is a founding member of the Death Weasel Confederacy, and Mummy is a kitchen chemist with questionable intent, but poor Pillover can't even bring himself to murder ants with his Depraved Lens of Crispy Magnification. Can you, Pill? — Gail Carriger

The history of art is a sequence of successful transgressions. — Susan Sontag

Civilization owes to the Islamic world some of its most important tools and achievements ... the Muslim genius has added much to the culture of all peoples. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

I read a lot of scripts and so many are clearly a knockoff of one familiar genre or another. — Edward Norton

With power comes the abuse of power. And where there are bosses, there are crazy bosses. It's nothing new. — Judd Rose

Feeding the starving poor only increases their number. — Ben Bova

A thick sapphire halo encased his startling pale blue iris. When I got closer, I noticed a starburst of aqua around his pupil. It wasn't the beauty of his odd eyes, exactly, that made my knees nearly buckle. I didn't know what it was, but I couldn't breathe. I couldn't think. My heart danced wildly to his tune. — Christie Rich

Be inspired but not proud. — B.K.S. Iyengar

The Apple mentality is really about creating focus, quality and a voice that people understand and can relate to. — Brit Morin