Early Birthday Gift Quotes & Sayings

Talia was the realization of his fantasies, his darkest dreams. The ones that begged for The Little Death over and over, — Jennifer Ashley

There's so much energy that's needed, for every stage of the process, so I don't want to do something that I'm bored by with characters that I don't like or actors that aren't going to surprise you. — Julian Jarrold

An experimental science is supposed to perform experiments that find generalities. It's not just supposed to tally up a long list of individual cases and their unique life histories. That's butterfly collecting. — Richard Lewontin

I could never understand the attraction of Bette Davis. I always preferred Jane Russell. — Richard Griffiths

Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it's just a daisy in a jelly glass. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love. — Ray Bradbury

It always has been and always will be the same. The old folk of our grandfathers' young days sang a song bearing exactly the same burden; and the young folk of to-day will drone out precisely similar nonsense for the aggravation of the next generation. "Oh, give me back the good old days of fifty years ago," has been the cry ever since Adam's fifty-first birthday. Take up the literature of 1835, and you will find the poets and novelists asking for the same impossible gift as did the German Minnesingers long before them and the old Norse Saga writers long before that. And for the same thing sighed the early prophets and the philosophers of ancient Greece. From all accounts, the world has been getting worse and worse ever since it was created. All I can say is that it must have been a remarkably delightful place when it was first opened to the public, for it is very pleasant even now if you only keep as much as possible in the sunshine and take the rain good-temperedly. — Jerome K. Jerome

My take on celebrity is simply that some of us have to make a bigger fool of ourselves than others. — Elliott Gould

It's really useful to travel, if you want to see new things. — Jules Verne

A threatened nation can react to uncertain dangers solely through administrative channels, to the truly embarrassing situation of perhaps overreacting. — Jurgen Habermas

The way the tour has developed has been as good an example of that as you would like to see. — David Gower

A good lawyer, just like a good poker player, must always keep his cards close to his chest. — Mallika Nawal

Unlike my esteemed colleague Garry Kasparov, I don't restrict the strength of opposition to Elo <2000, as fly-swatting makes poor spectator sport. (on simultaneous exhibitions) — Nigel Short

The vast silence of Buddha overtakes
and overrules the oncoming roar
of tragic life that fills alleys and avenues;
it blocks the way of pedicabs, police, convoys. — Denise Levertov

We do not have a fear of the unknown. What we fear is giving up the known. — Anthony De Mello

Birth-control through self-restraint is the most desirable, sensible and totally harmless method. — Mahatma Gandhi