Phil Klay Quotes

When I tell stories about Iraq, the ones people react to are always the stories of violence. This is strange for me.

Phil Klay

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• I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.

  

  Laura Haddock
  • School
  • Day
  • Positive

• My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Me
  • Mom
  • Inspired

• The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.

  

  Walter Salles
  • America
  • Film
  • Latin

• The latest revelation - from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree - is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Together
  • Tree
  • Creation

• What makes me happy is having a really nice day out with my mum, or getting better at something I've been working hard at.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Happy
  • Nice
  • Day

• I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.

  

  Ion Tiriac
  • Stories
  • Tennis
  • Brilliant

• I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Beautiful
  • Eyes
  • Hair

• The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • History
  • Write
  • Main Thing

• German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Literature
  • First
  • German

• I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Good
  • Great
  • Heart

• For the year after I left government service, I worked as a consultant to the Republican National Committee because the lawyers advised that was the proper way for me to comply with ethics regulations and continue to advise the President.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • Government
  • Service
  • Ethics

• We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Time
  • World
  • Live

• Every poor designer can go with things that are popular at the moment.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Things
  • Popular
  • Moment

• True character arises from a deeper well than religion.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Character
  • True
  • Religion

• Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Earth
  • Habit
  • Common

• I'm really familiar with what Cardboard's doing; it's not a novel concept. Cardboard is in many ways a direct ripoff of FOV2GO, a project I helped work on when I was at ICT, and it was fairly well known in the academic VR community.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Work
  • Community
  • Doing

• Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Mind
  • Moments
  • Happiness

• With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Fun
  • Taken
  • Regret

• I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that it is decided whether there will be anybody to understand their works in twenty years' time.

  

  Zoltan Kodaly
  • Time
  • Understand
  • Colleagues

• I don't want to continue to do what I did when I was 20. I would like to continue to develop myself and not continue to hang around with bands.

  

  Anton Corbijn

• I think the most important thing is just to write. It sounds so simple, but sometimes it's not. You can get so distracted - -by having to work other jobs, or what other people have to say about your writing - -but the one thing that really matters is that you just keep going, especially when you're working on a novel. It's so easy to get discouraged and give up.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Important

• I still use a lot of good values from growing up in the Church, and there was a sense of community. But you were also being heavily judged by people that wanted to look down on you for not being as great as they are.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• You write a story, you do a TV show, and if people don't like it, well, you're going to do it again tomorrow.

  

  Jake Tapper
  • People

• When I tell stories about Iraq, the ones people react to are always the stories of violence. This is strange for me.

  

  Phil Klay
  • People
  • Violence