Turning 76 Quotes

#1. As soon as the first piece of foliage came within blade's reach, my student started frantically swinging the machete like he was defending his virtue from a trove of drunken, handsy woodland elves. 'I feel like I'm in the movie Predator,' he said as he decapitated a flower.

Michael Gurnow

#2. Nature is nature.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. Had Luther and Calvin been confined before they had begun to dogmatize, the states would have been spared many troubles.

Cardinal Richelieu

#4. The course of unbalanced budgets is the road to ruin

Herbert Hoover

#5. You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.

Gene Wolfe

#6. How complex, untrustworthy, and important our stories are. We will never tell you the true story of our lives.

Andy Quan

#7. I'm rather proud of having been a trainspotter.

Samuel West

#8. Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing.

Barry Finlay

#9. Human beings thrive on action. Stagnation does not wear well with us. We are said to have our origins as hunter-gatherers. We run and we chase. We are problem-solvers. We must be continuously tested and we continuously test ourselves. And it will not end until our lives end because of life itself.

Art Buchwald

#10. But as a coach I wanted to keep things from being too complicated.

Bob Cousy

#11. It was smashing working with Jerry Desmonde, he was a very nice chap.

Norman Wisdom

#12. I think at this point, there's a certain bizarre chemistry between Jamie [Hyneman] and I that we can't ignore a lot of the mechanics of, that we're quite aware of. Half of it is absolutely genuine, and half of it is us playing around with that fact.

Adam Savage

#13. She's right, of course. My mother usually is. She's a librarian.

Heather Vogel Frederick

#14. All effective actions require the passport of morality.

Saul

#15. I'm a thinker not a talker.

David Bowie