Happy Birthday 55 Quotes

#1. According to my parents, I was supposed to have been a nice, churchgoing Swiss housewife. Instead I ended up an opinionated psychiatrist, author and lecturer in the American Southwest, who communicates with spirits from a world that I believe is far more loving and glorious than our own.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#2. The working class has been turned into a consuming class - a situation has been created where people value their worth by what they can afford.

Jarvis Cocker

#3. Still, to slaughter fellow-citizens, to betray friends, to be devoid of honour, pity, and religion, cannot be counted as merits, for these are means which may lead to power, but which confer no glory.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#4. In the 1980s I thrilled to the static and screech that modems made when they opened for you the weirdly magical realm of online services and bulletin boards,

Walter Isaacson

#5. A spectre is haunting Western academia ( ... ), the spectre of the Cartesian subject.

Slavoj Zizek

#6. There's something to be said for CEOs' entering politics: In theory, they have management expertise and financial savvy. Then again, it didn't work so well with Dick Cheney.

Nicholas Kristof

#7. It is with a word as with an arrow
once let it loose and it does not return.

Abdelkader El Djezairi

#8. Everything takes me forever. It's all lurch, flail. I hope that is good news to you writers.

Anne Lamott

#9. The world is mystical, mysterious, powerful, brutal and awesome ... it has a surreal logic, and moves in patterns, some of which can be unearthed and illuminated - on condition that I am listening - with my spirit, heart, eyes and guts on a single axis.

Nina Menkes

#10. I knelt by the design. Yes, there was the sun rising. But the white form I had always thought to be a cloud was a bear. I could see it now, upside down. White bear, isbjorn, stood for north. Father had not been able to help himself. The truth was there, too. Truth and lie, side by side.

Edith Pattou

#11. I manage to think twice about everything / Why will they like me as they do / Or not as they do / Why will they praise me as they do / Or praise me not not as they do ...

Gertrude Stein

#12. When we challenge ourselves with goals requiring us to stretch beyond previous accomplishments, we become more sensitive to our true potential.

Andi Jones

#13. I am absolutely convinced that my life was redeemed by poetry.

Felix Dennis

#14. I'm a horrible control freak. It's awful! I'm nice, but if someone is folding some sheets while I am playing the guitar, I keep one eye on the way that they are folding the sheets.

Juana Molina

#15. Tapping melons with your knuckles is a good way of making your selection in the store, but apparently it's frowned upon at the strip club.

Brad Wilkerson