Philip James Bailey Quotes

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

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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
  • Fame
  • Poet
  • 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

• Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

  

  Zelda Fitzgerald
  • Heart
  • Hold
  • Poets

• When people say, "I've told you fifty times," They mean to scold, and very often do; When poets say, "I've written fifty rhymes," They make you dread that they'll recite them too; In gangs of fifty, thieves commit their crimes; At fifty love for love is rare, 't is true, but then, no doubt, it equally as true is, a good deal may be bought for fifty Louis.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Love Is
  • Poets
  • Crimes

• Unjustly poets we asperse: Truth shines the brighter clad in verse, And all the fictions they pursue Do but insinuate what is true.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • True
  • Poets
  • Fictions

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

  

  Philip James Bailey
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