April 12, 2015

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

Beverly Cleary (1916 - ):

“Quite often somebody will say, 'What year do your books take place?' and the only answer I can give is, in childhood.”

and

“If you don't see the book you want on the shelves, write it.”

and

“She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.”

Herbie Hancock (1940 - ):

“Life is not about finding your limitations; it's about finding your infinity.”

and

“I don't look at music from the standpoint of being a musician; I look at it from the standpoint of being a human being.”

and

“I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn”

and

“Don’t be afraid to expand yourself, to step out of your comfort zone. That’s where the joy and the adventure lie.”

Tom Clancy (1947 – 2013):

“Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.” 

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“The point of life was to press on, to do the best you can, to make the world a better place.”

and

“You learn to write the same way you learn to play golf... You do it, and keep doing it until you get it right. A lot of people think something mystical happens to you, that maybe the muse kisses you on the ear. But writing isn’t divinely inspired – it’s hard work.”

David Letterman (1947 - ):

“If it weren't for the coffee, I'd have no identifiable personality whatsoever.”

and

“America is the only country where a significant proportion of the population believes that professional wrestling is real but the moon landing was faked.”

Scott Turow (1949 - ):

“Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love.”

and

“Who are we but the stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves, and believe?”

and

“But somethings in life are more important than being happy. Like being free to think for yourself.”