Enjoyed Your Birthday Quotes & Sayings

Why, I thought sadly, as he returned with his topcoat over his arm, why hadn't my mother married someone like him - ? Or Mr. Bracegirdle? somebody she actually had something in common with - older maybe but personable, someone who enjoyed galleries and string quartets and poking around used book stores, someone attentive, cultivated, kind? Who would have appreciated her, and bought her pretty clothes and taken her to Paris for her birthday, and given her the life she deserved? It wouldn't have been hard for her to find someone like that, if she'd tried. — Donna Tartt

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. — John F. Kennedy

No birthday, concert, hangout session, or party can be enjoyed without taking the time to distance yourself from what you are doing to make sure that those in your digital world know instantly how much fun you are having. — Daniel Goleman

In regard to dogs, my most memorable thoughts concern my daughter's dog and her fondness for them. In fact, one day while working at the office, she hosted a birthday party for one of her Newfoundlands and the party was attended by dogs of other coworkers. It was a hectic few hours, but I believe the guests enjoyed themselves. — Tom Monaghan

One of the great things about film is that, typically anything that's introduced in the first five minutes, the audiences will by into. — William Mapother

People should be free to take whatever they want from music and I think that over time I realized that different people always find different things in my songs, which is really good. — Courtney Barnett

Running is very spiritual for me. It is therapeutic; it clears my mind and helps me to focus. — Amy Locane

To instill the values for the culture was and is the responsibility of the leadership, and staff alignment was critical to its success. It started with both board and staff. They realized that they needed to share the same value system that says, "I am the equipper, not the doer." If not, there were going to be immense roadblocks to effectively mobilizing people for ministry. — Sue Mallory

Idealistic as it may sound, altruism should be the driving force in business, not just competition and a desire for wealth. — Dalai Lama XIV

If you don't have fun doing the film, then the results of the film will never give you any fun. — Woody Allen

Minimalism is close to mediocrity and mindlessness, a way for the ungifted to have a literary career, and for readers who really hate literature to pretend to be reading something serious. — Paul West

Now is the time for us to stop seeking our own satisfaction and to pour out our lives before HIM. — Oswald Chambers

A writer's life suits me. It's fairly, well, other people might think it was actually rather dull, but that's fine because I feel that my imagination is enough to kind of keep me happy. — Ronald Frame

A chair, it's like a sculpture. It starts as a thought and then becomes an idea, something I might think about for years. When the time is right, I express it on paper, usually as a simple line in space. Finally, it takes shape. — Charles Pollock

The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! 'Father, the atheists?' Even the atheists. Everyone! — Pope Francis

Anecdotes don't make good stories. Generally I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not what people thought their anecdotes were about. — Alice Munro

A new conception of life cannot be imposed on men; it can only be freely assimilated. And it can only be freely assimilated in two ways: one spiritual and internal, the other experimental and external. — Leo Tolstoy

The thoughts we think and the words we speak creates our
experiences. — Louise Hay