Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stevie Nicks

It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people.

Stevie Nicks

The day before my 16th birthday I got my guitar.

Steven Wright

I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I'm an idiot.

Steven Wright

My aunt gave me a walkie-talkie for my birthday. She says if I'm good, she'll give me the other one next year.

Tom Stoppard

In January 1962, when I was the author of one and a half unperformed plays, I attended a student production of 'The Birthday Party' at the Victoria Rooms in Bristol. Just before it began, I realised that Harold Pinter was sitting in front of me.

Tom Stoppard

From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked.

Tom Hanks

But look, I was born in 1956, the peak year for births in US history. I think I'm very representative of many of the thought processes my generation have been through and, by and large, people of my age have had their imprint planted on the consciousness of western society for a long time.

Tom Hanks

The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too.

Rupert Everett

I am at that age when you panic at the slightest thing.

Toby Keith

I ain't as good as I once was, But I'm as good once as I ever was.

Thomas Carlyle

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

Thomas Carlyle

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Stephen Hopkins

I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there were 150 people waiting for me, all wearing masks of my face.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Shirley MacLaine

I've gotten crankier in my old age.

Shahrukh Khan

I think love can happen at any age... it has no age.

Steven Morrissey

Age shouldn't affect you. It's just like the size of your shoes - they don't determine how you live your life! You're either marvellous or you're boring, regardless of your age.

Sue Townsend

I married two weeks after my 18th birthday, far too young, and by the time I was 23 I was a single mother of three small children, Sean, Daniel and Victoria, living in a prefab house.

Robert Browning

A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.

Robert Browning

When is man strong until he feels alone? Colombe's Birthday

Richard Griffiths

Everyone over 50 should be issued every week with a wet fish in a plastic bag by the Post Office so that, whenever you see someone young and happy, you can hit them as hard as you can across the face.

Richard Griffiths

Happy birthday! Hope your 50s will be as awesome as your 40s.

Richard Armour

Of late I appear To have reached that stage When people who look old Who are only my age.

Red Skelton

You know how to tell when you're getting old? When your broad mind changes places with your narrow waist.

T. S. Eliot

Today, you're halfway to 100! Here's to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday!

Katy Perry

No regrets, just love. We can dance until we die. You and I, we'll be young forever!

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

Satyajit Ray

At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.

Liam Neeson

I came to water late. I learned to swim at the age of 20.

Everything went just well for me today. It is my birthday so I have double reason to celebrate today. I think I can have two drinks tonight to celebrate the two events.

Victoria Principal

Every year on her birthday, she would pick out a song which she would force me to sing at the top of my lungs with perverted lyrics. And she loved it. I tried to get in touch a few times, but she really wanted to be on her own.

At the end, he was getting 10 grand a night, he was playing Richard Gere 's birthday party,

Jeremih

'Down on Me' can't showcase my true talent. 'Birthday Sex' was robotic. When I perform it, I can't give you this church feeling I know I can give.