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.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
-
The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were 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.
-
The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.
-
Every poor designer can go with things that are popular at the moment.
-
True character arises from a deeper well than 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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Cruelty to animals is an enormous injustice; so is expecting those on the lowest rung of the economic ladder to do the dangerous, soul-numbing work of slaughtering sentient beings on our behalf.
-
There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
-
Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.
-
There are more honest people and more good people than there are thieves and bad people. It's just always been that way.
-
People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately.
-
When I tell stories about Iraq, the ones people react to are always the stories of violence. This is strange for me.
