Wry Birthday Quotes

#1. I always want my options to be open.

Clive Owen

#2. Give me a fight with a simple demon or devil any day, over the whims of a pissed off Fae Queen.

Yasmine Galenorn

#3. The Heavens are as deep as our aspirations are high.

Henry David Thoreau

#4. My mom was a folk singer and Celtic harpist. My dad was in a barbershop quartet and my great grandma was an opera singer. As I grew up, I discovered pop music and Top 40 radio, but it was in the '90s, so music was very different then - it was really lyrical.

Skylar Grey

#5. The lawgiver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance.
He of all men should behave as though the law compelled him.
But it is the universal weakness of mankind that what we are
given to administer we presently imagine we own.

H.G.Wells

#6. When you're a kid, they tell you it's all ... grow up. Get a job. Get married. Get a house. Have a kid, and that's it. But the truth is, the world is so much stranger than that. It's so much darker. And so much madder. And so much better.

Elton Pope

#7. I am not saying that you have to believe in God to make moral decisions. God's existence is not dependent on my belief in him, anyway. However, without the objective reality of God, there would be no conscience".

Michael Ots

#8. I have never, ever focused on the negative of things. I always look at the positive.

Sonia Sotomayor

#9. For a young reader that's an important moment, when you recognize that your self exists in the world and that your self exists in literature.

Hilary Mantel

#10. Where are my two precious human books so I may turn their pages, aye?

Ray Bradbury

#11. After its hothouse incubation in the seventies, appropriation breathed important new life into art. This life flowered spectacularly over the decades - even if it's now close to aesthetic kudzu.

Jerry Saltz

#12. I went to the University of Toronto to study the history and theory of film, in the back of my mind thinking I'd go to NYU film school and see if I could make a career of it.

Tom Rachman

#13. Don't make excuses and Don't talk about it. Do it.

Melvyn Douglas

#14. You don't just be a team. You become a team. Through tough games you find that you need each other

Mike Krzyzewski

#15. Refuse to compromise what you know to be right for anyone or anything.

Brian Tracy