Philip James Bailey Quotes

Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.

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• I'm very self-critical.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Very
  • Self-Critical

• I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Good
  • Women
  • Influence

• Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Fear
  • Light
  • Dark

• I'm a breakfast type of guy. Don't get me wrong. I can cook, I'm kinda nice on the burner, but I enjoy making breakfast. I do it all... Scrambled eggs... French toast... Pancakes... Breakfast is my thing.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Nice

• Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Work
  • History
  • Original

• If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • May
  • Home
  • You

• For me, being an actress, my responsibility is not to pay attention to all the noise around me and to pay attention to the script and the director and protect the character and try to tell her story the best I can.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Responsibility
  • Best
  • Story

• There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too.

  

  A. J. Cook
  • Learned
  • Grateful

• Some books I've kept because the binding is beautiful - I'm unlikely ever to read my grandmother's copy of 'The Life of Lord Nelson.' I'm addicted to secondhand bookshops.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Grandmother

• In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Constitution
  • Refuse
  • Strife

• You have a new role: family caregiver. It's a role nobody applies for. You don't expect it. You won't be prepared. You probably won't even identify yourself as a caregiver.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Family
  • You
  • Yourself

• If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Truth
  • True
  • Care

• This world is too hard for me to leave my kids, without me supervising and being there for them.

  

  Fat Joe
  • World
  • Kids
  • Me

• Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • May
  • Christmas
  • Birds

• It is one thing to say that there is a constitutional right to keep a gun at home for protection. It is quite another to say there is a constitutional right to bring a hidden gun into a daycare center.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Home
  • Gun
  • Protection

• Suppose that 'Unsolved Mysteries' called you with news of a long-lost identical twin. Would that suddenly make you less of a person, less of an individual? It is hard to see how. So, why would a clone be different? Your clone would be raised in a different era by different people - like the lost identical twin, only younger than you.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Different
  • Long

• We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Experience
  • Control
  • Choose

• You just have to take these opportunities when they come along. They're not that frequent; you'll get a really good script, oh, maybe once a year if you're lucky.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Good
  • Year
  • Opportunities

• David and I enjoy a relaxed meal around 8. We like to eat on the couch while we watch TV. Sometimes we channel-flip, but we also watch shows like 'House of Cards,' 'The Crown,' or 'Game of Thrones.'

  

  Lauren Bush
  • Game
  • House

• Even in real life, I'd rather hang out with guys.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Life
  • Real
  • Real Life

• There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not. You shall not deny the Stranger.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Life
  • May
  • Death

• Doth some one say that there be gods above? There are not; no, there are not. Let no fool, Led by the old false fable, thus deceive you. Look at the facts themselves, yielding my words, No undue credence: for I say that kings kill, rob, break oaths, lay cities waste by fraud, And doing thus are happier than those, Who live calm pious lives day after day. All divinity is built-up from our good and evil luck.

  

  Euripides
  • Lives
  • Kill
  • Credence

• It certainly seems as though a great majority of genre is conflict-focused and, not only that, but focused on large physical conflicts.

  

  Aliette de Bodard
  • Great

• Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.

  

  Philip James Bailey
  • Great
  • Truth