Philip James Bailey Quotes

The world is a great poem, and the world's The words it is writ in, and we souls the thoughts.

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• When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Marriage
  • Thought
  • Year

• In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more. Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like heroes, when they vote to cut food stamps.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Food
  • California
  • Vote

• The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Interesting
  • Community
  • Advertising

• I've paid my dues in the classical trenches.

  

  Laila Robins
  • Paid
  • Dues
  • Trenches

• I don't think I can speak of the achievements of Indian cinema because it's so large next to me. It's not stopping. It's ever-growing. We are going towards the right direction. We are evolving as a filmmaking industry as actors, directors, producers, singers, musicians. Everybody just pushing the boundaries.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Growing
  • Speak
  • Musicians

• A film of my life would never happen!

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Life
  • Film
  • My Life

• I'm very obsessed with not being perfect.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Perfect
  • Being
  • Very

• I'm a very spontaneous person, for the bad and the good.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Spontaneous

• Abbot Terrasson tells us that if the size of a book were measured not by the number of its pages but by the time required to understand it, then we could say about many books that they would be much shorter were they not so short.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Time
  • Book

• I don't think that at the time, or now, come to think of it, I gave a damn. Foolishly, I wanted truth and idealism, but there was none to be had.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Time
  • Truth

• I can understand the poor and stupid voting for Marxism or one of its fashionable variants. If you've no hope of being other than a slave, you may as well opt for the most efficient form of slavery.

  

  P. D. James
  • May
  • Hope
  • Stupid

• 'One thing there's no getting by- I've been a wicked girl.' said I; 'But if I can't be sorry, why,  I might as well be glad!'

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Why
  • Girl
  • Sorry

• Hero tales suggest the price of courage is beyond the ordinary budget. They tempt us to disown the common capacity of the human spirit to transcend normality.

  

  Sam Keen
  • Courage
  • Hero

• When we patch things up,They say a job well done.But when we ask the question whyWhere did the rips come from?,They say we are subversive,And extreme, of course.We are just trying to track a problem to its source.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Done

• You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. You are avenged 1440 times a day.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • She
  • Growing

• All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.

  

  Benito Mussolini

• You have to feel more involved than just writing out a cheque. Charity is almost the wrong word - I think people are beginning to feel more responsible for the world.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • People
  • World
  • Writing

• My first instrument was the piano; I played in the church, and before that I sang in church. I didn't learn the guitar until I was 24 years old.

  

  Chuck Brown
  • Church

• My goal is to strip things down so that you need just the right amount of words or shape to convey what you need to convey. I like editing. I like it very tight.

  

  Maya Lin
  • Words

• To lift Him up, to preach His name, and to invite souls to love Him and to follow Him is the highest, heavenliest privilege of human life.

  

  W. A. Criswell
  • Life
  • Human
  • Souls

• There's an edge to real rock 'n' roll. It's all that matters.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Real
  • Rock

• The world is a great poem, and the world's The words it is writ in, and we souls the thoughts.

  

  Philip James Bailey
  • Words
  • Souls
  • Poem