Turning 40 Birthday Quotes & Sayings

Wo men shi jie bai xiong di-we are more than brothers, Will. — Cassandra Clare

Art, like the Jewish God, wallows in sacrifices. So tear yourself to pieces, mortify your flesh, roll in ashes, smear yourself with filth and spittle, wrench out your heart! You will be alone, your feet will bleed, an infernal disgust will be with you throughout your pilgrimage, what gives joy to others will give none to you, what to them are but pinpricks will cut you to the quick, and you will be lost in the hurricane with only beauty's faint glow visible on the horizon. — Gustave Flaubert

Now, when it's time to get down to business, I get down to business. — Juan Pablo Montoya

The purity men love is like the mists which envelop the earth, and not like
the azure ether beyond. — Henry David Thoreau

Danger is a very rare commodity in these times, monopolized by intelligence agencies and stuntmen. — William S. Burroughs

He looked like Bree, didn't he? He was like her?" "Yes." He breathed heavily, almost a snort. "I could see it in your face - when you'd look at her, I could see you thinking of him. Damn you, Claire Beauchamp," he said, very softly. — Diana Gabaldon