Philip James Bailey Quotes

Poetry is itself a thing of God; He made his prophets poets; and the more We feel of poesie do we become Like God in love and power,-under-makers.

Philip James Bailey

• Poetry
• Thing Of God
• God in Love

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• I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Drama
  • Artists
  • Dramatic

• Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Soul
  • Language
  • Thoughts

• I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Music
  • Age
  • Gift

• A lasting architecture has to have roots.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Architecture
  • Roots
  • Lasting

• My grandpa would come in with water and flick it on our faces at 6 A.M. and be like, 'If you don't get up to feed the horses, you don't get to ride them.' We'd get up.

  

  Cam
  • Up
  • You
  • Water

• Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And he's such an excellent banjo player that you almost don't wish you had a pair of wire cutters.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Man
  • Wish

• Even a beautiful piece of work can be overshadowed, destroyed, by something else.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Work
  • Beautiful
  • Something

• I feel like I've accomplished everything I could in the dunk contest. It would be hard for me to go back and outdo myself.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Hard

• I didn't grow up in a wealthy family at all. Being at home all day and watching movies, that was a luxury.

  

  Fleur East
  • Up
  • Family
  • Home

• Our intent is to operate Time Warner as it operates today, with autonomy in its divisions, including the world-class creative talent and journalists that make Time Warner a leader in entertainment and news.

  

  Randall L. Stephenson
  • Time
  • World
  • Today

• I felt like the country lays out like a pretty beautiful story itself, heading from the East Coast to West.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Country
  • Pretty
  • Beautiful

• I feel, even if someone is blessed with good hair, one needs to follow the basic hair care regime, and that means investing in the correct shampoo, conditioner, and mask.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Good
  • Hair
  • Blessed

• It's nice not to have to live a double life.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Life
  • Live
  • Nice

• I believe in incentivizing people. If you can incentivize people in anything, whether it's in politics; in life; in spirituality; in business; just take care of folks. Incentivize them and all of a sudden it's amazing the difference that you'll see.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• When you know something in your heart, you better not be quiet about it. You better speak out about it.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • Heart
  • Better
  • Speak

• The advocates of retaliatory wars will continue to assume a much simpler reality with their hoary oppositions: Religious and secular, backward and enlightened, free and unfree. But if we are to admit how deeply and irrevocably interconnected our world is, then we must find new ways to break the cycle of counter-productive violence.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • World
  • Free
  • Reality

• I'm constantly pitching one episode where we see life through Castle's eyes. I think Castle's just a little off as far as his perception goes. A very, very clever man, but I want to see the world as Castle sees it - kind of a rose-colored glasses, all the women find him irresistible, all the guys find him super cool and do whatever he says.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Life
  • World
  • Women

• I think, by nature, human beings are curious. And I think that's only amplified as an artist.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Nature
  • Think
  • Artist

• Time is not eternal but was created by God at the beginning.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Time
  • God
  • Beginning

• Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Experience
  • Morning
  • Poetry

• In the end, for congenial sympathy, for poetry, for work, for original feeling and expression, for perfect companionship with one's friends--give me the country.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Work
  • Country
  • Friends

• I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Great
  • Write
  • Songs

• People in hotels strike no roots. The French phrase for chronic hotel guests even says so; they are called dwellers sur la branche.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • People
  • Roots
  • Phrases

• Poetry is itself a thing of God; He made his prophets poets; and the more We feel of poesie do we become Like God in love and power,-under-makers.

  

  Philip James Bailey
  • Poetry
  • Thing Of God
  • God in Love