Philip James Bailey Quotes
Worthy books Are not companions – they are solitudes: We lose ourselves in them and all our cares.
Quotes to Explore
-
No Americans wants to see somebody lose their house because of health bills. Their boat? Maybe. Maybe the boat. But not the house.
-
The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
-
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
-
Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.
-
Yes, we're pretty into books around my house. We have lots and lots of books around. We have TV, but really no one ever watches it.
-
I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.
-
I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
-
Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
-
I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.
-
You will always see big, chunky bags around me. I have always been fond of bags. Bags are extremely essential because I keep my books in them.
-
I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It's OK to say I'm a nerd. That's me.
-
If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win.
-
My favourite author as a child and teenager, and who I still re-read now, is K. M. Peyton. She writes very truthfully; sometimes I'm not sure if I've actually done things or just experienced them in her books.
-
I wrote all four of my books at Starbucks.
-
Travel teaches as much as books.
-
If you don't lose, you cannot enjoy the victories. So I have to accept both things.
-
If you think about racing too much you may just lose it a little bit.
-
You lose your habitual behavior, which allowed you to sort of zone out. You have to be here, you have to be now, you have to be present.
-
No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived as those that we had regarded as not being lived at all: days spent wholly with a favourite book. Everything that seemed to fill them full for others we pushed aside, because it stood between us and the pleasures of the Gods.
-
I read many things. I read to fill in my knowledge of the world.
-
Pele wasn't as gifted as George Best and I would definitely put George above Johan Cruyff because he had more heart.
-
Don't think of yourself as a woman in business.
-
My comedy isn't clean; it's just friendly. So I get asked to do a lot of clean shows. It's like, 'Oh, I have a clean vibe, but I say gross, weird stuff.' It's just, it's very gentle the way I say it. It's not upsetting or jarring to people, because I'm not very aggressive.
-
Worthy books Are not companions – they are solitudes: We lose ourselves in them and all our cares.
