Late Birthday Sayings

#1. I wanted it to be a surprise. I wanted to catch him as a sort of late birthday present. Because your party...well, it kinda sucked, and you deserve to get something you really want for your birthday. Something other than death, horror, and mayhem.

Rachel Vincent

#2. Leaving would imply suitcases and empty drawers, and late birthday cards with ten-dollar bills stuffed inside.

Julie Kagawa

#3. There's too much of everything - too many bands, too many albums, too much information all the time. You're seeing fewer album releases treated as big events, because of the influx. It's almost a "here this week, forgotten next week" thing.

Matt Smith

#4. Any quick analysis of a Beatles tune or a Cole Porter tune will reveal often simple but unexpected chords, chords that chromatically shift between keys, or between major and minor.

Paul Zollo

#5. Mick Jagger is about as sexy as a pissing toad.

Truman Capote

#6. I love hot hand of explosion. I love a breeze perfumed with the devil smell of powder.

Tom Robbins

#7. One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.

Pablo Picasso

#8. I never want to love someone like that,not even him,so much that there would be no room left for myself,so much that I wouldn't be able to survive if he left me.

Jean Kwok

#9. The music instructor. He taught a course in what was wrong with Southern church music. He was from New Jersey, said Herbert.

Harper Lee

#10. Habit is far stronger than the lessons of experience.

Helen McCloy

#11. This is Bayle's meeting, isn't it?" Kennet asked, looking over his shoulder at the large bronze clock hanging on the wall. "Doesn't he know it's rude to arrive late to your own party?"
"When you arrived late to your own birthday party, you told me that was arriving in style," Linnea reminded him.

Amanda Hocking

#12. Is there something in your spirit that keeps telling you it should be different: more interesting, more engaging, more creative, more profound? Does your prayer life feel like you're eating the same food over and over every day - mixing the same ingredients but hoping for a new, more enticing dish?

David Brazzeal

#13. A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.

Oscar Wilde

#14. On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success.

Martin Van Buren

#15. The Shell
The sea fills my ear
with sand and with fear.
You may wash out the sand,
but never the sound
of the ghost of the sea
that is haunting me.

Ted Hughes

#16. Remember how we use to pray to get invited to birthday parties? And they only asked us because we were so grateful we'd do anything, stay late and help the mothers wash the cake pans. I'm still that girl, flattered to death if somebody wants me around.

Barbara Kingsolver

#17. My history is the history of things imagined and not-happened.

Sam Pink

#18. Of late I appear To have reached that stage When people who look old Who are only my age.

Richard Armour

#19. A birthday wish granted 23 years late is still a birthday wish granted.

R. K. Milholland

#20. In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of their votes during the early voting process.

John Lewis

#21. Every year before a big competition, I get hurt doing stuff I should not be doing. One year it was my little brother's 12th birthday. We all played hide-and-seek late at night. I climbed up a 30-foot tree, thinking he'd never catch me. I tripped and fell on one of the branches and I hit my head.

Ryan Lochte

#22. When I'd come in one day in the late winter and asked him why he was working the grill with a kid's birthday hat on, he'd said Because today I'm fifty-seven, buddy. Which makes me an official Heinz.

Stephen King