78th Birthday Quotes & Sayings

Mission complete, Country. — Kirsty Dallas

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never. — Henry Ward Beecher

We are to have no pictures which the puritan and the narrow, animated by an obsolete dogma, cannot approve of. We are to have no theaters no motion pictures, no books, no public exhibitions of any kind, no speech even which will anyway contravene his limited view of life. — Theodore Dreiser

Joe Spork opens the door. The man departs. Joe turns to Polly to say something about how they're obviously not going to Portsmouth, and finds an oyster knife balanced on his cheek, just under his eye.

"Can we be very clear," Polly Cradle murmurs, "that I am not your booby sidekick or your Bond girl? That I am an independent supervillain in my own right?"

Joe swallows. "Yes, we can," he says carefully.

"There will therefore be no more 'Say hello, Polly'?"

"There will not. — Nick Harkaway

Could the two people who are making out please be quiet?" the Colonel asked loudly from his sleeping bag. "Those of us who are not making out are drunk and tired. — John Green

There's always a point where you get knocked down. But I draw on what I've learned on the track: If you work hard, things will work out. — Lolo Jones

the Valley of Boval, where the women and the cows were renowned for their udders. — Terry Mancour

I don't know if anything would make women coalesce like that today. It made me feel very jealous, as if our generation missed out on something. — Lynn Povich

Your chances of survival are about one in a thousand.
Forget about the thousand.
Concentrate on the one. — The Doctor

This has been my greatest challenge: because the current reality now seems so unreal, it's hard to make nonfiction seem believable. But you, my friend [Michael Moore], are able to do that. — Kurt Vonnegut

once a kittypet always a kittypet."

-longtail — Erin Hunter

If we have any hope of finding ways for seven billion people to live well on planet with finite resources, we have to learn to use our resources efficiently. Plastic bags are neither efficient nor environmentally friendly. — David Suzuki

And when I look into his eyes there's a feeling of something I can only describe as familiarity, a sense of safety. Like coming home. — Rebecca James

I always say to my religious friends, if a pool had even one turd in it, would you jump in? — Bill Maher

In a way, being an opera singer is like being a very romantic sixteen-year-old who falls in love with great passion and conviction every month. — Renee Fleming