January 20, 2015

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

George Burns (1896 – 1996):

“If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.”

and

“You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.”

and

“I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate.”

and

“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.”

Buzz Aldrin (1930 - ):

“There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.”

Robert Olen Butler (1945 - ):

“The great Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa said that to be an artist means never to avert your eyes. And that's the hardest thing, because we want to flinch. The artist must go into the white hot center of himself, and our impulse when we get there is to look away and avert our eyes.”

David Lynch (1946 - ):

“Even bad coffee is better than no coffee at all.”

and

“I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened.”

and

“I hate slick and pretty things. I prefer mistakes and accidents. Which is why I like things like cuts and bruises - they're like little flowers. I've always said that if you have a name for something, like 'cut' or 'bruise,' people will automatically be disturbed by it. But when you see the same thing in nature, and you don't know what it is, it can be very beautiful.”

Edward Hirsch (1950 - ):

“Read poems to yourself in the middle of the night. Turn on a single lamp and read them while you're alone in an otherwise dark room or while someone else sleeps next to you. Read them when you're wide awake in the early morning, fully alert. Say them over to yourself in a place where silence reigns and the din of the culture — the constant buzzing noise that surrounds us — has momentarily stopped. These poems have come from a great distance to find you.”

Bill Maher (1956 - ):

“The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them."

R.A. Salvatore (1959 - ):

“It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach them.”

and

“Joy multiplies when it is shared among friends, but grief diminishes with every division. That is life.”

and

“Follow your heart, minute by minute and day by day. Let the course of the river run as it will, instead of tying yourself up in fears that you may never realize"

Rainn Wilson (1966 - ):

“If it’s a pure expression of yourself no matter what it is or what medium, it’s going to shine. It’s going to resonate. You could look inside of yourself and you could have a canvas and you could paint a dot in it, but if that is where your creative purpose is taking you then it needs to be that dot.”

?uestlove (1971 - ):

“When you live your life through records, the records are a record of your life.”

and

“It's a funny word, persistence. It means not giving up, but it also means just passing on through time.”

and

“And even though people like to furrow their brow like they suspect you're not being honest about yourself, the truth is that they worry that you're not serving their idea of you.”