Philip Levine Quotes

But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet.

Philip Levine

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• It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Good
  • Beautiful
  • Better

• I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Believe
  • House
  • Church

• It was never about winning medals or being famous.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Never
  • Winning
  • Famous

• I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • Man
  • Respect
  • Colors

• I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Fashion
  • Like
  • One-Man

• I'm somebody who believes in funny things, and laughing, but I do like for them to come from a place that addresses the human condition.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Funny
  • Human
  • Place

• I never really had a strong accent.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Strong
  • Never
  • Really

• It is not altogether shyness that now makes me unsuccessful in company. Sometimes it is a state of mind that is three parts meditation, that will not free the thoughts until their attendant trains are prepared to follow them.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Mind
  • Free
  • Thoughts

• I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon, though.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Hope
  • Dead
  • Icon

• When there is an accident involving fire, in most cases death is caused by the inhalation of the toxic smoke. What we need is air to go to a driver for 45 seconds. I'm surprised that this is not done, and I would make it compulsory.

  

  Jackie Stewart
  • Done
  • Death
  • Air

• Some persons never attain to the happy art of perspicuous expression, and it is equally true that some persons, thro' a mental defect of their own, will judge the most correct and certain language of others to be indefinite and ambiguous.

  

  Oliver Ellsworth
  • Art
  • True
  • Happy

• Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

  

  Aaron Hill
  • Courage
  • Numbers
  • Lion

• Typecasting is an interesting thing because, in a way, if you're good at something, you're going to work at that thing. In other ways, you constantly have to change people's opinion of you as one thing, especially if you want to play different roles. You have to shatter that image sometimes.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I live on my phone: I have a bunch of news and informational apps on there.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Live
  • News
  • Phone

• If I'd been bright, I'd have realized that I was horribly uncomfortable, amazingly frustrated, and like any sensible person, I'd have quit. But it never occurred to me that I wouldn't be successful eventually.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Successful
  • Uncomfortable
  • Frustrated

• I'm not a vampire movie fan, per se. That's not to say that I haven't enjoyed movies with vampires in them.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Movie
  • Movies
  • Say

• Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it's on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you've got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Fear
  • Passion
  • Happiness

• God gives us the power to act for ourselves, but let me tell you something. At five in the morning I have never heard this he says mimicking a knock on the door. Hello Jack, this is Jesus. I will work out today.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Work
  • God
  • Power

• I had a remarkably happy childhood; whatever scars I have are self-inflicted.

  

  James Carville
  • Happy
  • Childhood
  • Scars

• We cannot have four more years apologizing to enemies and abandoning our friends. America needs to be strong for the world to be safe, and on the world stage, Donald Trump will lead from strength.

  

  Mike Pence
  • Abandon
  • Apologizing
  • Be Strong

• What shall we do my darling, when trial grows more, and more, when the dim, lone light expires, and it's dark, so very dark, and we wander, and know not where, and cannot get out of the forest - whose is the hand to help us, and to lead, and forever guide us? ... Where do you think I've strayed and from what new errand returned. I have come from to and fro, and walking up and down the same place that Satan hailed from when God asked where he'd been.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • God
  • Help
  • Light

• I'm not a professional entertainer. I'm not Neil Diamond.

  

  Cat Power
  • Diamond
  • Entertainers

• But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet.

  

  Philip Levine