Weekend Birthday Quotes

#1. Just short of my 40th birthday, I told my wife, Beth, I was going to build us a little weekend place in ... well, in the uh, Southern Hemisphere. The deep Southern Hemisphere, actually. New Zealand, maybe. Or Argentina. Possibly Chile. She suggested medication.

Patrick Symmes

#2. Well, when I was a young writer the people we read were Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Sartre, Camus, Celine, Malraux. And to begin with, I was a bit of a copycat writer and very derivative and tried to write a novel using their voices, really ... I keep it out of print.

Mordecai Richler

#3. To sculpt a head of hair with scissors is an art form. It's in pursuit of art.

Vidal Sassoon

#4. I keep thinking about you every few minutes all day.

Walt Whitman

#5. I got to that desperate place where nobody could help me but God.

Cheryl James

#6. That's it, Uncle Huey!" Imogene Duckworthy whipped off her apron and flung it onto the slick, stainless steel counter. "I quit!" If only her voice didn't sound so young.

Kaye George

#7. After I received the news, Malia walked in and said, "Daddy, you won the Nobel Peace Prize, and it is Bo's birthday!" And then Sasha added, "Plus, we have a three-day weekend coming up." So it's good to have kids to keep things in perspective.

Barack Obama

#8. He was hitting on you, however."
"Reflex, not targeted."
"Agreed, which is why he lives.

J.D. Robb

#9. The Imperium made a solemn vow that if another Pulsar were to be born into our world," he continues, "that they would protect them at all costs in the hopes that a legend would arise again.

Giselle Simlett

#10. Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.

Bertrand Russell

#11. Two creative spirits in a relationship, I don't think that's the best way to go.

David Letterman

#12. If you find yourself mistreated, misunderstood, and mocked as a Christian, take heart, for so they did to the Christ.

Kevin DeYoung

#13. We kind of forget because what television tends to do with these professions like lawyers and doctors and police officers, we create them on such a heroic level that you kind of forget that these are really people.

Rocky Carroll