Philip Green Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
When I'm telling stories of my video game days, when I was a really hardcore MMO player, I played 'EverQuest' for two years and played 'World of Warcraft' and several other games for the last ten years or so... 95% of the stories I'll tell you are 'EverQuest.'
-
An act of unilateral nuclear disarmament by a European power would have a much more lasting impact than all the sanctions under consideration. Sanctions, as we know from the example of Iraq, always affect the least powerful citizens the most.
-
Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.
-
The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum.
-
Even a single Justice can have a profound impact on the country.
-
When you're in a high-stress situation, dynamics between people can change.
-
When you wait to the last minute, you rush to get things done, and the closer you get to the deadline, the less options you have.
-
I personally think you can have a really rich and full life with no abs. Abs are for wimps.
-
People are going to say what they want to say.
-
Nobody moves on purpose to Detroit.
-
Everyone has a warped vision of Hollywood and what success in Hollywood is like.
-
Ike runs the country, and I turn the pork chops.
-
The first thing that's important is to really have people believe in you. If you have that, you can do anything.
-
Everybody makes money for a living, but most of us actually do something that has a point, in addition to just making money. We examine and treat patients, we teach students, we draw up contracts and wills, we write for newspapers, magazines, and web sites, we clean floors, or we serve meals.
-
Now, practically all reviewers have academic aspirations. The people from the universities are used to a captive audience, but the literary journalist has to please his audience.
-
Fantasy, if it's really convincing, can't become dated, for the simple reason that it represents a flight into a dimension that lies beyond the reach of time. In this new dimension, whatever it is, nothing corrodes or gets run down at the heel or gets to look ridiculous like, say, the celluloid collar or the bustle.
-
Sometimes there is a tendency to talk about women as though we are a herd...women believe this or women want that. But we very much vote on the issues depending on what's important.
-
I hated speaking in public. I would miss school just so I wouldn't have to do it.
-
Many artists have not been able to realise their fondest projects. My role is to help them.
-
Judges have to be neutral, but they don't have to be eunuchs.
-
The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.
-
It's far easier to write why something is terrible than why it's good. If you're reviewing a film and you decide "This is a movie I don't like," basically you can take every element of the film and find the obvious flaw, or argue that it seems ridiculous, or like a parody of itself, or that it's not as good as something similar that was done in a previous film. What's hard to do is describe why you like something. Because ultimately, the reason things move people is very amorphous. You can be cerebral about things you hate, but most of the things you like tend to be very emotive.
-
You've got to love what you do to really make things happen.
