7th Bday Quotes & Sayings

I've been the same all along. I talk when I feel like it and I shut up when I don't feel like talking. — George Harrison

Some academic pursuit had been a suggestion; she found study absorbing, but the tutorial positions open to women were few, and the restrictions of the life did not appeal to her. She read for pleasure. — Anne Perry

The Heart Desires to Be Free — Cynthia Belmer

Debatable how long the seduction took. The smarter the girl, the swifter these things go. Physical forwardness as intellectual high-wire act: the pleasure not of pleasure but of performance and revenge against the retainer, the flute, the stack of expectations. — Lauren Groff

The eye obeys exactly the action of the mind. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology. — Emily Greene Balch

I want to take as the canvas for my next picture the entire surface of France. — Yves Klein

I wouldn't want to sacrifice the last years that I have of being youthful in this business to have kids. — Michelle Rodriguez

To create anything - whether a short story or a magazine profile or a film or a sitcom - is to believe, if only momentarily, you are capable of magic. These essays are about that magic - which is sometimes perilous, sometimes infectious, sometimes fragile, sometimes failed, sometimes infuriating, sometimes triumphant, and sometimes tragic. I went up there. I wrote. I tried to see. — Tom Bissell

We thought we had time. — Daniel Handler

They were not beggars; well, not in the usual sense. They were Christians, who wanted not just my nephews' money but their souls. — Lindsey Davis

As crowds increase we build our forts of inattention, and the more we talk the easier it is to mean little and listen not at all. — Frank Moore Colby

Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a shovel. By virtue of this curious loophole in the rules, any clodhopper may say: Let there be a tree - and there will be one. — Aldo Leopold