Joking Birthday Quotes & Sayings

You're saying one day I'll be a butterfly," he says skeptically. I look up. "I'm saying you've always been one. — Lindy Zart

There is in every breast a sensibility to marks of honor, of favor, of esteem, and of confidence, which, apart from all considerations of interest, is some pledge for grateful and benevolent returns. Ingratitude is a common topic of declamation against human nature; and it must be confessed, that instances of it are but too infrequent and flagrant both in public and in private life. But the universal and extreme indignation which it inspires, is itself a proof of the energy and prevalence of the contrary sentiment. — James Madison

If anybody gets highbrow around the studio, out he goes. — Walt Disney

Characterization is not divorced from plot, not a coat of paint you slap on after the structure of events is already built. Rather characterization is inseparable from plot. — Nancy Kress

I believe that it is possible for one to praise, without concern, any man after he is dead since every reason and supervision for adulation is lacking. — Niccolo Machiavelli

I keep scraping the canvas
And painting him over again
But he keeps slipping away — Edward Hirsch

Truth, whose mother is history, who is the rival of time, depository of deeds, witness of the past, example and lesson to the present, and warning to the future. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Give away everything you have learned. If for no other reason, do it selfishly; in order to get more, you must give more. — David Cottrell

What 'War and Peace' is to the novel and 'Hamlet' is to the theater, Swan Lake' is to ballet - that is, the name which to many people stands for and sums up an art form. — Robert Gottlieb

Few politicians are good at taking the high ground and throwing themselves off it. — Peter Mandelson