56th Anniversary Quotes & Sayings

I'm sitting in my home office wearing a bathrobe. The same way I'm not going to start wearing ties, I'm also not going to buy into the fake politeness, the lying, the office politics and backstabbing, the passive aggressiveness, and the buzzwords. — Linus Torvalds

Taking a risk is something we do not for our mind but for how it makes us feels, emotions it brings, excitement it creates and I feel alive. — Luke Blaise Pereira

I want wings. That's all I've ever wanted. — K. Webster

The far-right and far-left can be equally insane. — John Avlon

Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible. — William Sloane Coffin

Woman is the symbol to man of the uncleanness of bodily existence, of which he purifies himself by putting her to noble uses. She thus has for him a double, contradictory significance; she is the subject of his bawdry and the subject of his romance. — Laura Riding

I felt uncomfortable calling myself a writer until I started with 'The New Yorker,' and then I was like, 'Okay, now you can call yourself that.' — David Sedaris

I'm not a speed writer. I write slowly and revise obsessively. The end result tends to be good. That's where my strength is. — Patrick Rothfuss

The real issue relating to exclusiveness is whether or not the Christian actually has a relationship with God, a presence of God, which non-Christians do not have. Apart from Christian spiritual formation as described here, I believe there is little value in claiming exclusiveness for the Christian way. — Dallas Willard

The revolution which began with the creation of quantum theory and relativity theory can only be finished with their unification into a single theory that can give us a single, comprehensive picture of nature. — Lee Smolin

I would prefer to believe that a market in fetal organs would empower women to use their reproductive capabilities to their own economic advantage. — Jacob M. Appel

To see the years touch ye gives me joy", he whispered, "for it means that ye live. — Diana Gabaldon

I took three years of karate because of Bruce Lee, you know. I was a green belt. — Marjane Satrapi