World Is Birthday Cake Quotes

#1. All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece but not too much.

George Harrison

#2. For even in the triviality of a single playing card missing from a deck, the world's order is inevitably turned awry.

Yukio Mishima

#3. All those stories must have ended this same way, with someone tired going home from a field full of death, but no one ever sang this part.

Naomi Novik

#4. Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting

G.J. Walker-Smith

#5. If you want to move people, it has to be toward a vision that's positive for
them, that taps important values, that gets them something they desire and
it has to be presented in a compelling way so that they feel inspired to
follow.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#6. Historically, China is not a nation of sportsmen. We traditionally put more emphasis on being close to nature than pushing endlessly to excel. A philosophy that values tranquil contemplation of the landscape cannot easily be adapted to the Olympic slogan of 'higher, stronger, faster.'

Ai Weiwei

#7. A planetary vision of bloody racial struggle, something not inherently attractive to most people most of the time, was translated at moments of stress into concepts and images that could generate political support.

Timothy Snyder

#8. Fantasy - the ability to envisage the world in many different ways - is one of the skills that makes us human.

Terry Pratchett

#9. Thick cunning played on her face, had no fun there and went somewhere else.

Raymond Chandler

#10. I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future.

Oliver Stone

#11. Autumn is full of leave-taking.

Mary Webb

#12. Skepticism was a drug for him. Life's vicissitudes had taught him never to be caught without it. A most useful drug, it magically invigorated his heart, transforming opprobrium into piety and ignominy into tolerance.

Juan Filloy

#13. I saw the world I had walked since my birth and I understood how fragile it was, that the reality was a thin layer of icing on a great dark birthday cake writhing with grubs and nightmares and hunger.

Neil Gaiman

#14. never ceases to transform.

Mary Curran Hackett