Philip Treacy Quotes

I love the shape of cars. They are very inspiring as modern pieces of machinery. I can't drive, but I do like the look of them.

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• The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Art
  • Energy
  • End

• I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!

  

  Sam Palladio
  • Value
  • Guitarist
  • Passages

• After the events of the 20th century, God, quite reasonably, left Europe. But He's still here in the United States.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • God
  • Events
  • Europe

• With a successful center-right party such as ours, it is hard for the radical right to find room to operate. This is why they repeatedly attack us in the ugliest manner. They attack us more than they attack the Jewish community or the 'Jewish conspiracy' - which they believe exists. I am one of their main targets.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Community
  • Party
  • Attack

• I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Religion
  • Ego
  • Losing

• But with rap music - not just N.W.A. - but rap music in general, seeing these artists wearing these team logos all the time started bringing a synergy and energy about having to rep your city, your team, everywhere and all the time.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Time
  • Music
  • Energy

• I always say, you gotta play a dive bar like you play an arena, and you play an arena like you play a dive bar.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Play
  • Always
  • Dive

• A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Man
  • Alone
  • Responsibility

• My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Art
  • She
  • Mother

• If I hadn't turned out to be a filmmaker, I would have been a musician.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • Would
  • Been
  • Filmmaker

• I always want objects in my home that have a connection to me or something I've loved. It's still stuff, but it's stuff that has meaning.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Connection
  • Loved
  • Meaning

• I dance. I don't really do anything else.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Dance
  • Anything
  • Else

• Where do you draw the line between a humble man who knows his own weaknesses but tries to act out virtues he hasn’t quite mastered yet, and a proud man who pretends to have those virtues without the slightest intention of acquiring them?

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Proud
  • Humble

• The process of being brought up, however well it is done, cannot fail to offend.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Up
  • Done

• The irony of primary parent laws is that on the one hand feminists were arguing for women’s equal rights to jointly-created career assets that emanated from the male financial womb, but arguing against men’s equal rights to jointly-created children that emanated from the woman’s child-bearing womb.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Children

• Closed societies are now the flimsiest of illusions, for all the outsiders are demanding in.

  

  Ralph Ellison

• Hundreds of data-mining companies sell landlords tenant-screening reports that list past evictions and court filings.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Past

• I don't think the public here buy this idea that women and men speak different comedic languages.

  

  Chris O'Dowd
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• I've done for the most part pretty much what I intended - I ended up doing comedy, writing and painting. I've had a ball. And as I get older, I just become an older kid.

  

  Jonathan Winters
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Done

• The formula for a happy marriage is five positive remarks, or interactions, for every one negative.

  

  Nancy Etcoff
  • Marriage
  • Interactions
  • Remarks

• Let me spell my name out for you, it's Ricky: R: Ravishing, I: Impress, C: Courageous or Careless, K: for the Kangols which I've got, That I wear everyday and Y: Why not?

  

  Slick Rick
  • Everyday
  • Courageous
  • Impress

• Hats have been my thing pretty much my whole life but finance has not. I would go to the corner store and buy really cheap baseball style caps and wear those to school.

  

  Ne-Yo
  • Life
  • School
  • Pretty

• God is my homeboy. Jesus is my homeboy.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • God
  • Jesus

• I love the shape of cars. They are very inspiring as modern pieces of machinery. I can't drive, but I do like the look of them.

  

  Philip Treacy