Philip K. Dick Quotes

You’re not just out of your body; you’re out of your mind, too.

Philip K. Dick

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• I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Peace
  • Proud
  • Name

• I remember the first time I stepped into the ring at age 16. I loved hitting things... but who likes getting hit?!

  Mandy Bujold
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Age

• Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Dark
  • Ocean
  • Without

• Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • America
  • Think

• Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.

  

  Nas
  • Hip Hop
  • Noise
  • Spotlight

• One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • World
  • Good
  • Darkest

• An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.

  

  Carl Van Vechten
  • Will
  • Questions
  • Ordinary

• I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Long
  • City
  • Grandmother

• I just like seeing the world, and it doesn't matter where.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • World
  • Matter
  • Seeing

• In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Art
  • Culture
  • Food

• I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Time
  • Good
  • Luck

• When you're trying to paint a portrait of a very specific world, you're trying to show what makes the world different. So, sometimes it means exaggerating certain kind of aspects, but I don't think it's that important or it's that much of an issue as long as you get an emotional truth across.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • World
  • Different
  • Important

• The alliance in Jammu and Kashmir is one of the most important developments on the contemporary political scene.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Important
  • Political

• In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Good
  • Way
  • Screen

• It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Live
  • Want

• I've always been fascinated by young women who come to New York. The characters in 'Lipstick Jungle' were once young women who came to New York and we see their early experiences through flashbacks.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Women
  • New York
  • Lipstick

• For me, insomnia was something ordinary, and it came and went for ordinary reasons.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Me
  • Reasons
  • Ordinary

• The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Important
  • Moral
  • Revolution

• Frank called me one day and said, 'I have an idea for a movie, why don't you come over and I'll tell you?' So I went over and we sat down and he said, 'This picture starts in heaven'. That shook me.

  

  James Stewart
  • Why
  • Movie
  • Heaven

• Comedy appeals to the collective mind of the audience and this grows fatigued; while farce appeals to a more robust organ, their collective belly.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Mind
  • Comedy

• Philosophy is an amazing tissue of really fine thinking and incredible, puerile mistakes. It's like one of those rubber 'bones' they give dogs to chew, damned good for the mind's teeth, but as food - no bloody good at all.

  

  Olaf Stapledon
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

  

  Benjamin Franklin Fairless
  • Mind
  • Career
  • Achievement

• There is no greater weapon than a prepared mind.

  

  Zhuge Liang
  • Mind
  • Weapons
  • Prepared

• You’re not just out of your body; you’re out of your mind, too.

  

  Philip K. Dick
  • Mind