Utah Phillips Quotes
But they lived those extraordinary lives that can never be lived again. And in the living of them, they gave me a history that is more profound, more beautiful, more powerful, more passionate, and ultimately more useful, than the best damn history book I ever read.
Quotes to Explore
-
I think I'm a lot like other moms out there who feel like if we don't have the pecan pie we have every year, then it just won't be Christmas.
-
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
-
I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.
-
In North Germany, a troublesome ghost is bagged, and the bag emptied in some lone spot or in the garden of a neighbour against whom a grudge is entertained.
-
Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place.
-
So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
-
The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.
-
On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!'
-
I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
-
I can't think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you're an actor.
-
You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.
-
Today, only 2 percent of the people know the name of someone serving in uniform. That means 2 percent of your listeners can actually conjure up the image of someone wearing the uniform of the military of the United States.
-
I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
-
I try to be this kind of player: the type who does something whenever he gets the ball. Sometimes in the past, I've gone through games where I've not touched the ball for 20 or 30 minutes.
-
It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.
-
I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.
-
I like working with my own body weight, and I just do the best job I can to be healthy and strong, both before and after a fight.
-
Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
-
Today, I saw a spark of decency. Let's blow on that spark and give it fuel.
-
I'm not an abstract artist; I leave that to others. To me, abstract art ended with Kazimir Malevich's 'Black Square.' To continue it is senseless.
-
We don't have any rules about how we depict violence, or how much violence is in a movie. It's a calibration on a case-by-case basis.
-
Rick is the leader and I don't have a problem with that.
-
In the spring of 1957, Mickey Mantle was the king of New York. He had the Triple Crown to prove it, having become only the 12th player in history to earn baseball's gaudiest jewel. In 1956, he had finally fulfilled the promise of his promise, batting .353, with 52 homers and 130 RBIs. Everybody loved Mickey.
-
But they lived those extraordinary lives that can never be lived again. And in the living of them, they gave me a history that is more profound, more beautiful, more powerful, more passionate, and ultimately more useful, than the best damn history book I ever read.
