Philip James Bailey Quotes

For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.

Philip James Bailey

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• Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.

  

  Felix Adler
  • People
  • Time
  • Country

• I believe people have to follow their dreams - I did.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • People
  • Believe
  • Dreams

• I suppose I sometimes used to act like I wasn't a human being... Sometimes I look back at myself and remember things I used to say, or my hairstyle, and I cringe.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Remember
  • Myself
  • Sometimes

• It's going to be a big topic of discussion.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Conversation
  • Discussion
  • Topic

• Timing has a lot to with art.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Art
  • Timing

• It's a funny word, persistence. It means not giving up, but it also means just passing on through time.

  

  Questlove
  • Up
  • Time
  • Giving

• There's something really nice about not sitting separate from the crew in some massive trailer away from the studio. To actually be there with them, it's more of a creative process.

  

  Neve Campbell
  • Nice
  • Process
  • Studio

• I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me

  

  Donald Miller
  • God
  • Understand
  • Breakfast

• The air campaign is going to continue, ... The Yugoslav government hasn't done anything positive.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Government
  • Positive
  • Air Campaign

• Whether it's boxing, basketball, or badminton, one must be ready to succeed before entering the arena...long before the lights come up.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Succeed
  • Boxing
  • Arena

• Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame.

  

  William Cowper
  • Poet
  • Fame
  • England

• A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Men
  • Lying
  • Mercy

• By the time [of modern] generation was coming of age sexually, there was already this idea of safe sex. But that didn't exist for me. I came out of the free-swinging '60s and '70s. It was free love, baby. That was it. We had very liberal sex-ed classes in 1973, a yearlong environmental science class, and then Women's Lib and Gay Liberation. So it's insane to go from that to Reagan and AIDS. It was like, "What happened? Where's my future?"

  

  Michael Stipe R.E.M.
  • Science
  • Generation
  • Environmental

• This show [Jessica Jones] was exploring the aftermath, and that is unique. You're sitting there going, "I know what happens. This is the aftermath." You watch her daily life and how she dealt with people, like new prospects for love or friends that were close to her, but she didn't know if she could trust them or if they were enemies.

  

  Mike Colter
  • People
  • Enemy
  • Watches

• We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Poets
  • Scientists
  • Pantheists

• There were the usual exhortations to purity – think of the novel not as your opportunity to get rich or famous but to wrestle, in your own way, with the titans of the form – exhortations poets don’t have to make, given the economic marginality of the art, an economic marginality that soon all literature will share.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Art
  • Opportunity
  • Literature

• For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.

  

  Philip James Bailey
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