Celebrating 50 Years Birthday Quotes & Sayings

I was arrested for lip-syncing karaoke. — Steven Wright

Prayer is only another name for good, clean, direct thinking. When you pray, think well what you are saying, and make your thoughts into things that are solid. In that manner, your prayer will have strength, and that strength shall become part of you, mind, body, and spirit. — Richard Llewellyn

And If only I could, I'd make a deal with God... — David Levithan

O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint. — William Shakespeare

When I write fiction, I create characters whose views are not my own, and I allow them to be eloquent in defense of their, not my, views. — Orson Scott Card

We think we have to do something to be grateful or something has to be done in order for us to be grateful, when gratitude is a state of being. — Iyanla Vanzant

It ill becomes any of us to take the attitude that all evidence for God is false evidence, beneath consideration, simply by virtue of its being evidence for God, or even by virtue of its being outside the purview of science. — Kitty Ferguson

Science is voiceless; it is the scientists who talk. — Simone Weil

The story of the decadence of the cathedral as a moral power, a spiritual energizer in civilization, is the sad but inevitable story of dogmatism. It is the story of the struggle of free thought with bigotry, religion making common cause with the wrong side. — Jenkin Lloyd Jones

Ben: You're gonna get arrested.
Lindsey Meeks: You can't sell your tickets!
Ben: That's why you ran across the whole field? ... Wait, you've got to tell me - was it spongy? — Jimmy Fallon

The truly great man is he who would master no one, and who would be mastered by none. — Khalil Gibran

Redwood time moves at a more stately pace than human time. To us, when we look at a redwood tree, it seems to be motionless and still, and yet redwoods are constantly in motion, moving upward into space, articulating themselves and filling redwood space over redwood time, over thousands of years. — Richard Preston

Write like no one is reading. — Crystal Woods

Israel is our friend, that we will assist in their security. — Barack Obama

Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time. — Lance Armstrong