Beatnik Birthday Quotes

#1. The first time I met Prince he invented me to his birthday party in Minneapolis. It was a costume party and I came as a beatnik - a beret and a charcoal goatee. He was dressed like an executioner. I talked to him for awhile and he didn't know who I was, and when I told him he was real surprised.

Paul Reubens

#2. I used to consider myself as great as a pyramid, and now I realize that I am only a shadow that passes.

Rachel

#3. My computer tells me that in twenty-five years there will be no more computers.

Edward Abbey

#4. It wasn't right to have someone charge into you your world without even asking, acting as if you were nothing more than an egg to be flipped and flopped, sunny-side up or scrambled, depending on the whims on whoever ran your life ... _

Alice Hoffman

#5. It reminds me too much of how little life changes: how, without dramatic events or high resolves, without tragedy, without even pathos, a reasonably endowed, reasonable well-intentioned man can walk through the world's great kitchen from end to end and arrive at the back door hungry.

Wallace Stegner

#6. When you're dealing with music without words, titles are more a means of identification than anything else. What's the point of getting lofty?

Branford Marsalis

#7. The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

Robert Bryne

#8. I am not lazy.
I am on the amphetamine of the soul.
I am, each day,
typing out the God
my typewriter believes in.

Anne Sexton

#9. God has one Son without sin, but none without affliction.

Augustine Of Hippo