• "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." - Annie Dillard Tweet
• "I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed." - Gene Tierney Tweet
• "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." - George Saunders Tweet
• "I just had my 30th birthday and we went turkey shooting. It's what I wanted to do, so we went." - Kelly Clarkson Tweet
• "My best kiss was on stage. Kelly Rowland from Destiny's Child gave me a really nice soft kiss on my lips during a performance on my birthday. It was amazing." - Chris Brown Tweet
• "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." - Robert Staughton Lynd Tweet
• "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." - John Oates Tweet
• "You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen." - Joe DiMaggio Tweet
• "My first recognition of age setting in was exactly on my 36th birthday. I have no idea why, on this day of all days, I looked in the mirror and realized my face no longer looked young." - Paulina Porizkova Tweet
• "My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish." - Harold Pinter Tweet