Philip James Bailey Quotes

Wan night, the shadow goer, came stepping in.

Philip James Bailey

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• 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is a masterpiece because it is an episodic novel that has a rigorous form - an unprecedented combination. From the very beginning we know the town of Macondo will endure only a century, so there is a limit to the length of the narrative.

  

  Edmund White
  • Beginning
  • Solitude
  • Limit

• The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is the teacher in the temple. He teaches principles of eternal significance. It is during these instructions that we see the relationship between the earthly and the eternal. We must remember that the Spirit teaches only those who are teachable.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Remember
  • Relationship
  • Teacher

• Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Taken
  • Values
  • Abuse

• Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.

  

  Ad Reinhardt
  • Up
  • Painting
  • Look

• Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Mother
  • Boy
  • Bring

• Am I grumpy? I might be. But I think maybe sometimes it's misinterpreted.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Think
  • Sometimes
  • Grumpy

• The promise of any artwork is that it can hold us - viewer and maker - in a conflicted or contestable space, without real-world injury or loss.

  

  Kara Walker
  • World
  • Real
  • Space

• I grew up on the stage, and there's no two ways about it: you only get one chance to do your bit.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Up
  • You
  • Chance

• Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • World
  • You
  • Nothing

• New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle - it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Work
  • Myself
  • New York

• I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Courage
  • Sick
  • Nobody

• Frankly, I thought we would have lost the House by now.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • House
  • Lost
  • Thought

• It might sound odd, but filming a soap is closer to acting in a play than filming episodic television.

  

  Kassie DePaiva
  • Play
  • Acting
  • Television

• Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its focus.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • World
  • Dream

• If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • War

• For a warrior, to be inaccessible means that he touches the world around him sparingly. And above all, he deliberately avoids exhausting himself and others. He doesn’t use and squeeze people until they have shriveled to nothing, especially the people he loves.

  

  Carlos Castaneda
  • People
  • World
  • Warrior

• A prime time to catch yourself putting on your personality is in the moments between sleeping and waking.

  

  Sam Keen
  • Time
  • Moments
  • Personality

• There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • God
  • Why

• I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4 A.M. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends.

  

  Joan Didion
  • People
  • Up
  • Mind

• I'm a designer, producer and I am hands-on for every project I undertake. The creative side of what I do is really something I think people overlooked for a while.

  

  Dita Von Teese
  • People

• I started off when I was seven years old doing musicals. I was in 'Les Miserables' and 'The Sound of Music,' and my mum's an actress. My parents divorced when I was young, and when she couldn't find a babysitter, I was in the wings, sleeping.

  

  Alicia Vikander
  • Music
  • She
  • Parents

• Vietnam should have taught us that mindless anti-Communism is not a cause worth killing or dying for in a world in which Communism is hardly a monolithic force.

  

  Pete Hamill
  • World
  • Dying

• Wan night, the shadow goer, came stepping in.

  

  Philip James Bailey
  • Night
  • Shadow
  • Stepping