34th Birthday Sayings

#1. Less than two weeks before my 34th birthday, I bought pots. Most people were amazed that I did not previously own pots, but that was before I explained that I had never used my oven, and used my stovetop for my dishrack.

Rachel Sklar

#2. I jumped out of an airplane on my 34th birthday because I promised myself I would. I have an interest in confronting my fears.

Michael Trucco

#3. Never in my life did I steal a penny that didn't belong to me.

Sean Quinn

#4. All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

#5. The dull parts of life spread out in your memory and crowd out the exciting parts until they just seem like little flashes. (Ron Weasley)

G. Norman Lippert

#6. Can a book make such a difference? Can it change you utterly?

I know it can.

(First essay from The Book That Changed My Life, edited by Roxanne J. Coady & Joy Johannessen)

Dorothy Allison

#7. The problem is, if you really want the Truth, then you have to have God along with it.

Frank E. Peretti

#8. I like Michael Moore, but I think of him more as a rabble-rouser. On his TV show, when he went to the home of the guy who invented the car alarm and set off all the car alarms on the block ... pretty funny.

P. J. O'Rourke

#9. You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.

Neil Gaiman

#10. I was so flattered that someone wanted me to write a book, I said I would. It was published in 1969.

Jilly Cooper

#11. Take a chance because you never know how perfect something can turn out.

Wiz Khalifa

#12. Are you lishening, my pretty vermin, are you lishening?

Mervyn Peake

#13. Most important was to remain focused and always have presence of mind.

Nafisa Joseph

#14. Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.

Jimmy Carter

#15. A touch of madness is, I think, almost always necessary for constructing a destiny.

Marguerite Yourcenar