Quotes & Sayings About Turning 56

We dream much of Paradise, or rather of a number of successive Paradises, but each of them is, long before we die, a Paradise lost, in which we should feel ourselves lost also. — Marcel Proust

I worked for [Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame inductee] Tommy Hunter. It was a wonderful training program at the CBC, because they made sure they never paid you very much, so you had to do a lot of things, and that way you made some money. [A phone rings.] That's my agent right now telling me I've got a 13 cent residual from Tommy Hunter in 1969. — Alan Thicke

The Bible is the supreme law that all governments must obey. — Randall Terry

By 9:30 at night, I go to bed. — Natalie Du Toit

Fair enough, Gutfreund had once been a trader, but that was as relevant as an old woman's claim that she was once quite a dish. — Michael Lewis

All the beauty of the stars means nothing when life here on earth is so ugly. — Sabaa Tahir

People would be a lot better off if they'd enjoy being single. — Lewis Black

I never tell anyone exactly how clever I am. They would be too scared. — Eoin Colfer

Technically, I'm not supposed to meet you until tomorrow, and I don't want anyone getting upset. Though I wouldn't call you yelling at me anything close to a romantic tryst, would you? — Kiera Cass

Frankly, I would have preferred finding a bomb in my room. I knew how to handle a bomb. The principal, on the other hand, was far more unpredictable. I — Stuart Gibbs

It all remained unreadable for him, though reading, he felt, was not a natural thing and should not be done to people. In general, people were not road maps. People were not hieroglyphs or books. They were not stories. A person was a collection of accidents. A person was an infinite pile of rocks with things growing underneath. — Lorrie Moore

Life is competitive; clothes gird us for the competition. — Edith Head

He looked at me and I shivered. I never get enough of him. Never will.

He lives.

I breathe.

I want. Him. Always.

Fire to my ice. Ice to my fever.

Later we would go to bed, and when he rose over me, dark and vast and eternal, I'd know joy. Who Knew? Much later we might fly a couple of Hunters to the moon. — Karen Marie Moning

Always seek to allow others space to be imperfect. — Alan Downs

As usual when I drank too much I started talking about things I should'nt ... That night Kate told me I had no brains and she was officially done with me. OK, fair enough. I already knew that I was an idiot, stepping for the third time in the same shit with the same left foot. — Joanna Mazurkiewicz