Happy 25th Anniversary Funny Quotes & Sayings

I know you've run away - everybody gets the urge to do that some time - but sooner or later you'll want to go home. — Sue Monk Kidd

The pressures of life and influence of society have caused many to become something and someone they are not. Remove the layers. Dig through the dust and debris. Find the genuine jewel - YOU. — Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

I think perhaps of all the things a police state can do to its citizens, distorting history is possibly the most pernicious. — Robert A. Heinlein

The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A few carry on DESPITE all opposition, until they attain their goal. These few are the Fords, Carnegies, Rockefellers, and Edisons. There may be no heroic connotation to the word persistence, but the quality is to the character of man what carbon is to steel. — Napoleon Hill

It is almost always a mistake to mention Abraham Lincoln. He always steals the show. — Kurt Vonnegut

Commercial comedy's often set up to feature an ironist making
devastating sport of someone who's naive or sentimental or pretentious or
pompous. — David Foster Wallace

It startled him even more when just after he was awarded the Galactic Institute's Prize for Extreme Cleverness he got lynched by a rampaging mob of respectable physicists who had finally realized that the one thing they really couldn't stand was a smartass. — Douglas Adams

She looked to the roses, but it was Tibe's face she saw. It was familiar now, after months of friendship. She knew his nose, his lips, his jaw, his eyes most of all. They stirred something in her, a connection she did not know she could make with another person. She saw herself in them, her own pain, her own joy. We are the same, she thought. Searching for something to keep us anchored, both alone in a crowded room. — Victoria Aveyard

Optimists move through life with a happy exterior. What happens on the inside shows up on the outside. — Marilyn Suttle

A person has all sorts of lags built into him Kesey is saying. Once the most basic is the sensory lag the lag between the time your senses receive something and you are able to react. One-thirtieth of a second is the time it takes if you are the most alert person alive and most people are a lot slower than that ... You can't go any faster than that ... We are all doomed to spend the rest of our lives watching a movies of our lives - we are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1 30th of a second ago. We think we are in the present but we aren't. The present we know is only a movies of the past and we will really never be able to control the present through ordinary means. — Tom Wolfe

Once you learn how to do something, you don't lose it. Unless you die. — Shaquille O'Neal

I would like to thank my parents in Vergaio, a little village in Italy. They gave me the biggest gift: poverty. — Roberto Benigni

Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing. — Elia Kazan

Dan clung to her in speechless gratitude, feeling the blessedness of mother love, - that divine gift which comforts, purifies, and strengthens all who seek it. — Louisa May Alcott

Action movies live and die by the story that you're trying to tell. It's hard. It's very difficult to do an action movie that stays engaging. — Daniel Craig