Birthday Quotes

The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book.

My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him.

I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar.

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to remember it once.

If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it's really the same.

I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.

When someone asks if you'd like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie?

Love the giver more than the gift.

It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution.

Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.

I suddenly realized how much I loved her when we attended Alfred Hitchcock's 75th birthday party last August. There was something magical about that night, and it made me see how much she really meant to me.

There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.

I had arranged a birthday party for him and my children, who are all Aquarians. Instead, we got married. I ran out of excuses. It was just us and my children.

Being seventy is not a sin.

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

I wrapped my Christmas presents early this year, but I used the wrong paper. See, the paper I used said 'Happy Birthday' on it. I didn't want to waste it so I just wrote 'Jesus' on it.

When I turned 60, it didn't bother me at all.

You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out.'

With my wife I don't get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to 'the best woman a man ever had.' The waiter joined me.

Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.

Mum loves me being famous! She is so excited and proud, as she had me so young and couldn't support me, so I am living her dream, it's sweeter for both of us. It's her 40th birthday soon and I'm going to buy her 40 presents.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.

With a recent birthday, I've been acting now for twenty years.

I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present.

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.

If there's one thing I really want for my birthday, that is for the mining company not to mine my daddy's reserve.

Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.

My brother got a .22 for his 12th birthday; I got a .22. He got a hunting knife; I got a hunting knife.

There is still no cure for the common birthday.