Philip James Bailey Quotes
There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.
Quotes to Explore
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I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.
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We've got to step up our conservation efforts before it's too late. We're not protecting our lands and natural resources. Take the Grand Canyon for example; I'm sure that at one time it was a beautiful piece of land, and just look at the way we've let it go.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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I'm not a Democrat.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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As soldiers in Israel's army, one of the most grueling training regimens we had to endure was a long march while carrying a comrade on a stretcher.
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What you see is what you get.
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I often feel like I have this spirit living inside of me, always dressing in like short mini skirts... but then I start to discover myself. So there are eight spirits, mischievous ones, sad ones, handsome ones, wise ones, and crazy ones.
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When you cover the economy as a reporter, there's one part of the job that is always easy: finding economists who disagree.
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Not to sound too much like Christopher Guest in 'Waiting for Guffman,' but on Thanksgiving you're putting on a show!
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We're not Seattle East. We're our own Atlanta, and there are definitely things I learned from Coach Carroll. He had probably the single biggest influence on my coaching career.
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To me, the most romantic gesture is a quiet night with my girl. I like to cook for her. I'm a meat eater and a griller - I do steaks, I do chicken, I do fish. I have a broad palate!
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Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.
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A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.
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You have to like the characters you play.
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I don't have to prove my innocence to the court or to the news media.
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I think I wrote 'The Trysting Place' in about three weeks. But it was inexperience that made me have to do that. I didn't feel good about the book all the time I was writing it. It felt a bit like wading through molasses.
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You've got to talk to your kids as both a parent and a friend.
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Actually, I'm quite a domesticated person. I love the little things of home.
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I might go on discussing this subject at great length, but after all is said, done, and written, my own book of experiences will best show what these obstacles are, and how I managed to overcome them to some extent.
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There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.
