Philip James Bailey Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.
-
I would love to be a singer if I had the talent for it. I'd love to be a graphic designer if I had the talent for it. Those are things I've always just admired - the work of other artists.
-
I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
-
I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.
-
You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
-
Wrestling in Japan, obviously, the fans are a little bit different - very quiet, very respectful in New Japan - but here in the WWE, these fans are going nuts.
-
Sometimes you want things so bad you will kind of lower your standards, and I've learned that once you do that, it's really hard to go back, to get people to respect you and respect your craft.
-
I come from really humble people. We never had a lot.
-
I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
-
I'm one of those guys who has to have a constant something going inside and in front of my face. If not, I get in trouble.
-
I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
-
Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.
-
I want people to just to see, all you got to do is have a little faith.
-
Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.
-
Even a beautiful piece of work can be overshadowed, destroyed, by something else.
-
I don't believe that in the name of the holiness of the city you have to put barbed wires, machine gun nests, mine pins and everything of that, in the name of the holiness of Jerusalem.
-
I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
-
I have a good relationship with Lifetime.
-
Lower your gaze from the world and turn your heart away from it...
-
I've always felt that a space is as good as a fill.
-
Great readers, great listeners, and all have great work ethics. ... They work hard at what they do and they're devout to their reading and listening.
-
A queen is wise. She has earned her serenity, not having had it bestowed on her but having passer her tests. She has suffered and grown more beautiful because of it. She has proved she can hold her kingdom together. She has become its vision. She cares deeply about something bigger than herself. She rules with authentic power.
-
For me, Love is something very pure.
-
None but the brave and beautiful can love.
