Happy 42nd Birthday Quotes & Sayings

Friends, somebody said, are "god's apology for relations." I — Christopher Hitchens

I could write historical fiction, or science fiction, or a mystery but since I find it fascinating to research the clues of some little know period and develop a story based on that, I will probably continue to do it. — Jean M. Auel

There are three kinds of people: 1. Innovators. 2. Imitators. 3. Idiots. — Warren Buffett

Jews have been in Egypt since Biblical times, and Alexandria had once been, at least partially, a Jewish city. — Meir Kahane

Thank you for this life! Still I miss the alternatives. — Tomas Transtromer

In the final analysis, what is it that we call popular, democratic power? Beyond the expressed will of the people, as it is supposedly formulated, there is no appeal; here we meet the absolute, the universal, the indivisible, and the immovable. There is nothing a priori, nothing anterior to democratic power; no ideas of truth, no notions of good or bad, can bind the Popular Will. This 'will' is free in the sense that it stands above all notions of value. It is egalitarian because it is reared on arithmetic equality..It is not open to any appeal, it listens to no demand for grace, no plea for compassion. Like the Sphinx, the Popular Will is immovable in its enigmatic silence. — Tage Lindbom

Real possession football, this. And Zico's lost it — John Helm

While writing my memoir, 'When Skateboards Will Be Free,' I would sometimes have to pore over hours of microfilm at the New York Public Library in order to try to get one obscure detail right. For instance, was the Socialist Workers Party originally called the American Workers Party or the Workers Party of the United States? — Said Sayrafiezadeh

The worst waste, that of time. — Thomas Carlyle

A simple, well-proven surgery can restore sight to millions, and something even simpler, a pair of glasses, can make millions more see. — Thulasiraj Ravilla

the most blood thirsty animals in the Artic are not wolves, but the insatiable mosquitoes. — Farley Mowat