95th Birthday Quotes

#1. Most times when people pitch you as being perfect for a part ... they don't look at you as an actor who can transform. A lot of people are so literal.

Catherine Keener

#2. Ancient, grizzled, wild-eyed, emaciated by fever, dragged his weary frame up the veranda steps and collapsed in a steamer-chair. Whisky and soda kept him going while he made report and turned in his accounts.

Jack London

#3. Why do you act? You act for an audience. In the theatre, you're in their presence. Film stars don't know what it is to have an audience.

Ian McKellen

#4. The sea which we think of separating the two island actually joins them.

Conor Cruise O'Brien

#5. Griswold!" a voice bellowed.
"We'll talk about this later," he said, then climbed to his feet and stood at attention. "Sir!"
I turned around, only to be confronted with the largest man I had ever seen in my life.
The end was nigh.

Lia Habel

#6. Authentic love always assumes the mystery of modesty, even in its expression, because actions speak louder than words. Unlike a feigned love, it feels no need to set a conflagration.

Honore De Balzac

#7. She always thought Americans were too territorial. 'All those fences and flags,' she had once said, seeing very little difference between the two.

Dinaw Mengestu

#8. Stability and a prosperous life cannot be set off against a set of political rights and freedoms.

Dmitry Medvedev

#9. Success is like reaching for heaven; you have to work to get there

E.M.

#10. As I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of 'easy believism.' There is a mindset today that if people believe in God and do good works, they are going to Heaven.

Billy Graham

#11. I tramped through the country
To get the feeling
That I was not a separate thing from the earth.
I used to lose myself
By lying with eyes half-open in the woods.
Sometimes I talked with animals ...

Edgar Lee Masters

#12. I admire the military. I guess in a world of villains and heroes, they're my heroes. Their dedication, their commitment, their discipline, their code of ethics.

John Cena

#13. No one can accuse Stuart Young of avoiding the big issues - with insight and verve, he tackles head on the existence of God, the mystery of human consciousness and the transformative effects of psychedelic drugs. Recommended.

Mark Chadbourn

#14. The greatest man is he who is part of himself

Mpho Leteng