Humoured Birthday Quotes

#1. I was trying to be the best rapper in the world. I wasn't thinking about acting.

Ice Cube

#2. When you're failing, there's a very powerful incentive to put ideology aside and just do what seems to work.

Fareed Zakaria

#3. Being a father is just great. I love every minute - even the rubbish, middle-of-the night stuff.

Tom Ward

#4. I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it.

Jodi Picoult

#5. I've always found that you can control people better if you don't see too much of them.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

#6. When the Soviet Union came to be run by a valetudinarian mafioso like Brezhnev, the thing itself had fallen into self-contempt.

Leonid Brezhnev

#7. How we all love extreme cases and apocalypses, fires, drownings, stranglings, and the rest of it. The bigger our mild, basically ethical, safe middle classes grow the more radical excitement is in demand. Mild or moderate truthfulness or accuracy seems to have no pull at all.

Saul Bellow

#8. Just like his daddy, but his daddy wants Red to be different from him. Isn't that always how it is?

Anne Tyler

#9. We have not an hour of life in which our pleasures relish not some pain, our sours, some sweetness.

Philip Massinger

#10. One of the best feelings I had growing up was being completely exhausted at the end of the day after playing outside all day.

Jennifer Pharr Davis

#11. A lot of music comes from a selfish place ...

Vince Staples