68 Birthday Quotes & Sayings

Languidly, like an actor repeating a stale part. Anna — Leo Tolstoy

That's the easy thing about falling: there is only one choice after that. — Lauren Oliver

Looking at and 'appreciating' art has been understood as an instrument (or at best a result) of upward mobility, in which owning art is the ultimate step. making art is at the bottom of the scale. This is the only legitimate reason to see artists as so many artists see themselves - as 'workers'. At the same time, artists/makers tend to feel misunderstood and, as creators, innately superior to the buyers/owners. The innermost circle of the art-world class system thereby replaces the rulers with the creators, and the contemporary artist in the big city is a schizophrenic creature. S/he is persistently working 'up' to be accepted, not only by other artists, but also by the hierarchy that exhibits, writes about and buys his / her work. At the same time s/he is often ideologically working 'down' in an attempt to identify with the workers outside of the art context and to overthrow the rulers in the name of art. — Ben Davis

It's funny how quickly tomorrow becomes yesterday and then last week and then you run out of time. — Michelle Gable

Death can come at any minute, in any way. We do not know what is in store tomorrow, or, whether there is a tomorrow, or even a tonight! But still, we have the golden present. Now we are alive and kicking. What should we do now? Love all, serve all. — Swami Satchidananda

I've played sports and been active my whole life. — Warren Christie

I was in uniform for four years, and I know that heroism doesn't occur from taking orders, but rather from people who through their own willpower and strength are willing to sacrifice their lives for an idea. — Thor Heyerdahl

It makes a great difference to a speaker whether he has something to say, or has to say something. — Nellie L. McClung

Awareness is a blissful state, not a painful one. — Gary Zukav

I decided to go into politics because of our Soviet-style government. — Bidzina Ivanishvili

On the face of it he seemed to be congratulating himself on dealing with patients more humanely than Yealland, but then why the mood of self-accusation? In the dream he stood in Yealland's place. The dream seemed to be saying, in dream language, don't flatter yourself. There is no distinction. — Pat Barker

Education should not be fun. You are being brought up into society and society has a way of doing things. It may not be pleasant but sooner or later you are going to have to do it anyway. — Robert M. Pirsig

It makes no sense to ship atoms when you can ship bits. — Nicholas Negroponte

Find out who you really are, then accept who you are. Fight for your life every day to be who you are. — Ari Up

The teeth must have escaped while you murdered the rest of it," said Bramble, cough-laughing into her napkin. "Ha ha ha! You know, sometimes I think Clover is harboring some deep, dark shocking secret. Fire poker! Ba-hahahahaaa! — Heather Dixon