July 13, 2014

Good Morning! Here are your daily birthday quotations...

David Storey (1933 - ):

“The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.”

and

“Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too.”

Wole Soyinka (1934 - ):

“The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.”

and

“Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.”

and

“The man dies in all those that keep silent.”

Patrick Stewart (1940 - ):

“Having spent so much of my life with Shakespeare's world, passions and ideas in my head and in my mouth, he feels like a friend - someone who just went out of the room to get another bottle of wine.”

and

“It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward.”

and

“The people who could do most to improve the situation of so many women and children are in fact, men. It’s in our hands to stop violence against women.”

Harrison Ford (1942 - ):

“You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit.”

Cameron Crowe (1957 - ):

“The only true currency in this bankrupt world are the moments you share with someone when you're uncool.”

and

“I always tell the girls never take it seriously, if you never take it seriously you never get hurt, if you never get hurt you always have fun, and if you ever get lonely just go to the record store and visit your friends.”

and

“I'm impossible to forget, but I'm hard to remember.”

and

“You will never know the exquisite pain of the guy who goes home alone. Cause without the bitter, baby, the sweet ain't as sweet.”

Jane Hamilton (1957 - ):

“She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.”

and

“It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.”