Prolific Birthday Quotes & Sayings

The legs, for example, of that chair
how miraculous their tubularity, how supernatural their polished smoothness! I spent several minutes
or was it several centuries?
not merely gazing at those bamboo legs, but actually being them
or rather being myself in them; or, to be still more accurate (for "I" was not involved in the case, nor in a certain sense were "they") being my Not-self in the Not-self which was the chair. — Aldous Huxley

Waiting for God"


This morning I breathed in. It had rained
early and the sycamore leaves tapped
a few drops that remained, while waving
the air's memory back and forth
over the lawn and into our open
window. Then I breathed out.

This deliberate day eased
past the calendar and waited. Patiently
the sun instructed the shadows how to move;
it held them, guided their gradual defining.
In the great quiet I carried my life on,
in again, out again. — William Stafford

One thing I've learned: you never know where life is taking you, but it's taking you. — Hilary Swank

-a whole world can lie before someone, if love is there when one wakes. — Lois Lowry

I spend every day up at the United Nations where I have to interact with 192 other countries. I know how well the United States is viewed. — Susan Rice

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas. — Leo Burnett

If you try to hold people to your standard of conduct you will go mad with disappointment and grief. — Bryant McGill

I'll say this about the war protesters: At least most of them are only putting duct tape across their mouths so I can still tell the rest of them to blow it out their ass. — Dennis Miller