79th Birthday Quotes & Sayings

When I grow up I want to be an old woman. — Michelle Shocked

In ways that certain of us are uncomfortable about, SNOOTs' attitudes about contemporary usage resemble religious/political conservatives' attitudes about contemporary culture. We combine a missionary zeal and a near-neural faith in our beliefs' importance with a curmudgeonly hell-in-a-handbasket despair at the way English is routinely manhandled and corrupted by supposedly educated people. The Evil is all around us: boners and clunkers and solecistic howlers and bursts of voguish linguistic methane that make any SNOOT's cheek twitch and forehead darken. A fellow SNOOT I know likes to say that listening to most people's English feels like watching somebody use a Stradivarius to pound nails: We are the Few, the Proud, the Appalled at Everyone Else. — David Foster Wallace

I plan to learn enough to read you like a book. — Sylvia Brownrigg

I like the Edinburgh Film Festival, and I've liked what I've experienced of Glasgow's Film Festival too. — Aidan Gillen

You learn to get by from day to day," Sam Regan said sympathetically to him. "You never think in longer terms. Just until dinner or until time for bed; very finite intervals and tasks and pleasures. Escapes. — Philip K. Dick

WHEN YOU LEND MONEY, DON'T EXPECT TO GET IT BACK. — Kunal Nayyar