Cheeky 50th Birthday Quotes

#1. Are there any mythical beasts which aren't simple pastiches of nature? Centaurs, minotaurs, unicorns, griffons, chimeras, sphinxes, manticores, and the like don't speak well for the human imagination. None is as novel as a kangaroo or starfish.

William Poundstone

#2. Editors and their authors seldom form deep friendships for the same reason that psychiatrists and their patients keep their distance: The relationship requires candor that mixes poorly with intimacy.

Jason Epstein

#3. When my legs begin to move, the thoughts begin to flow.

Henry David Thoreau

#4. One of the oldest trees on Earth, a spruce in Sweden, is more than 9,500 years old.

Peter Wohlleben

#5. When the going gets tough in Washington, presidents appoint 'blue ribbon' commissions.

Christopher Buckley

#6. If we were to judge nature by its common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed. In nature, improbabilities are the one stock in trade. The whole creation is one lunatic fringe ... No claims of any and all revelations could be so far-fetched as a single giraffe.

Annie Dillard

#7. But hatred was really not an emotion which he could sustain for any length of time, unless it was the obverse side of love.

John Le Carre

#8. I'm not bad at singing - at least in the shower.

Sean Bean

#9. I love physical comedy. I adore comedy of any kind.

Marcia Gay Harden

#10. Those who are truly His hear His voice and respond positively to His loving call, even if it means hurt, loss, or ridicule.

Michael L. Henderson

#11. It's not your job to like me, it's mine

Bryon Katie

#12. The thing about bands is everybody wants to be the next Oasis, and that doesn't mean slogging it out around the toilet [gigs], it means, "Give me the check, I need to go to the Levis shop and I need a 1960s Gibson."

Noel Gallagher

#13. I grew up listening to classic rock - the Kinks, Genesis, The Who, Pink Floyd.

Ted Cruz