Quotes About Turning 85

#1. There's nothing like a gunshot to make you the life of the party.

Holly Black

#2. Patients reported that their psychedelic sessions were an invaluable experiential training for dying.

Stanislav Grof

#3. God's purposes are not for me to understand His plans: His plan is for me to understand Who He is.

Ann Voskamp

#4. I personally find that each instalment has a different director, cast and crew, and I've also been in a different season in my life for each of them, so I feel like each movie is a unique experience that centres around my undying passion for music and dance.

Alyson Stoner

#5. You have to know the human heart.

Thom Jones

#6. Doll may have been the loneliest woman in the world, and she was the loneliest child, and there they were, the two of them together, keeping each other warm in the rain.

Marilynne Robinson

#7. Ever in the dullest existence there is a sheen either of Inspiration or of Madness

Thomas Carlyle

#8. The best way to win a game is not to lose it.

Erk Russell

#9. It's been three days
still haven't heard from you.
My heart lives underwater
breathing for you.
But you break apart
my tiny heart,
giving me no chance
to start something with you.
I dove into the pool
I dove in
hoping to swim
now I'm drowning.

Cecil Castellucci

#10. Poetry happens when there is nothing to say but you have a volcano hidden inside you waiting to erupt.

Debasish Mridha

#11. One's own surroundings means so much to one, when one is feeling miserable.

Edith Sitwell

#12. In my life there have been several individuals whose presence made it easier for me to think, pleasanter to make my responses.

Isaac Asimov