Birthday Postponed Quotes & Sayings

You have no control. Who lives, who dies, who tells your story. — Lin-Manuel Miranda

Again and again, I've undergone the humbling experience of first
lamenting how badly something sucks, then only much later having the
crucial insight that its not sucking wouldn't have been a Nash
equilibrium. — Scott Aaronson

Many people erroneously think they have only one chance to succeed, and if they miss that chance, they are doomed to failure. In fact, most people have several opportunities to succeed. — Bill Walsh

There's no question that you can explore aspects of yourself through roles that you play, and you get a chance to investigate yourself; that's healthy, and it's therapeutic in a way. But if you're indulging yourself, exploration at the cost of the story or the project, that's not good. — Annette Bening

From 1962 to 1965, the guitar became this icon of youth culture, thanks mostly to the Beatles. — Pat Metheny

Well my thoughts on American swimming are that our prospects look favorable, but we may not have as strong a showing in the gold medal count as in previous Olympics. But I am not coaching. — Mark Spitz

I've spent the better part of my career in politics and public policy working on and fighting for education reforms. — Mark McKinnon

Sometimes, if you want to survive, you've got to run. You have to run as far and as fast as you can — Patricia Eimer

Splendid! They used to go up like great lilies and snapdragons and laburnums of fire and hang in the twilight all evening! — J.R.R. Tolkien

If democracy succeeds in Egypt, other countries will follow. Should the democratic experiment in Egypt be hijacked by the military or anti-democratic Islamist groups, the revolution will fail elsewhere. — David Ignatius

I won't sell my songs for no TV Ad — Adam Yauch

I'm not interested in making money, or being wealthy enough to have a villa in Beverly Hills, because in Paris I don't need that much money. — Ludivine Sagnier

When you don't have standards, it's easier to exceed them. — Jerry Scott

Unexpectedly, she took several trotting steps and then threw in a couple of feeble attempts at bucking! She felt good enough to try and play! ... Instead of slowing down, she broke into a very awkward canter, punctuated by all sorts of goofy attempts to throw her heels up. I couldn't help but laugh out loud at her faltering display of joyful rejuvenation. — Kim Meeder

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.
Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope. — Alexandre Dumas