birthday quotes

TV a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. ~Goodman Ace



The American mass media have achieved what American political might could not: World domination. ~Akbar S. Ahmed



It's not just a rock. It's forty-two pounds of polished granite, with a beveled underbelly and a handle a human being can hold. Okay, so in and of itself it looks like it has no practical purpose, but it's a repository of possibility. And, when it's handled just right, it exacts a kind of poetry - as close to poetry as I ever want to get. The way it moves.... Not once, in everything I've done, have I ever felt the same wonder and humanity as when I'm playing the game of curling. ~Paul Gross, John Krizanc, and Paul Quarrington, Men with Brooms



Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great. ~Henry IV of France



Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure. ~Elbert Hubbard



With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up. ~Voltaire



Technology presumes there's just one right way to do things and there never is. ~Robert M. Pirsig



Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth. But we seem to have no other. ~Ivy Compton-Burnett



Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him. ~Lord Chesterfield



I've had tons of odd jobs, but I think that I would probably be a fireman because you get to see the results of your job. You get there and there is a house on fire. You leave and there's not a fire anymore. ~Luke Perry



After all is said and done, a lot more will have been said than done. ~Author Unknown



When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part. ~G.B. Shaw, Getting Married, 1908



Platonic love is love from the neck up. ~Thyra Smater Winsolow



The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway. ~Henry Boye



An older sister is a friend and defender - a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too. ~Pam Brown



The man who has done his best has done everything. ~Charles M. Schwab



When a guy goes to a hooker, he's not paying her for sex, he's paying her to leave. ~Author Unknown



Colorful candles burning bright, each lit on eight very special nights. ~Author Unknown



Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste. ~Brecht