Christmassy Birthday Quotes & Sayings

Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to dispense them from admiration, a vulgar emotion. — Honore De Balzac

His love for her made her feel like she was wearing sunglasses even when she wasn't. — J. Ryan Stradal

One country ... one ideology, one system is not sufficient. It is helpful to have a variety of different approaches ... We can then make a joint effort to solve the problems of the whole of humankind. — Dalai Lama

A stand-up comedian will never be the life of a party. Instead, he will be the guy who is standing at a corner and observing people. — Vir Das

I thought he had taken my soul, said Rev.
I thought he took mine, too. But no one can. It's just been sleeping. — Francesca Lia Block

To only a fraction of the human race does God give the privilege of earning one's bread doing what one would have gladly pursued free, for passion. — Fred Brooks

Isaiah 58:11 And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy they soul in drought, and make fat they bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not. — Anonymous

The Taylors have this gift for imperturbable presence. They are not nervous talkers. The Harrises, on the other hand, have always been constant talkers, not so much for the sake of entertainment or information but because if a silence caught and held for too long they might have fallen into a bottomless sullen discord, a frozen mutual quietude that could never be broken because there never had been and never would be a shared topic of sufficient reviving urgency (not at least one either of his parents could bear to broach), and so they needed to hydroplane forward together on an ever-replenished slick of remark and opinion ... — Michael Cunningham