John L. Phillips Quotes

It so happened that my goals kind of matched my career progression toward becoming an astronaut.

John L. Phillips

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• Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity, the internal combustion engine, and many other things we take for granted today.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Today

• I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Love
  • Want
  • Forever

• What is important is for me to do my best work on camera. The camera is inches away from you and sees every micromovement of every muscle of your eye. And if you're not relaxed, the camera sees it.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Work
  • Important
  • Best

• Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Book
  • Sometimes
  • Finish

• Entrepreneurship is the very back bone of our country and what makes us great - we are a nation of founders.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Great
  • Country
  • Back

• To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Education
  • Like
  • Eating

• There is not love where there is no will.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Will

• I'm focused on getting to a place where we can prove that journalism can make good money on the web.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Good
  • Money
  • Journalism

• To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Home
  • Business
  • American

• I always thought everybody else was better than me.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Me
  • Always
  • Thought

• By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Excellence
  • Contemplation

• I would say that 'Shake It Up' was a chance for me to do two things I really love: acting and dancing.

  

  Zendaya
  • Up
  • Love
  • Me

• A woman simply is, but a man must become.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Man
  • Woman

• Well, a younger woman is a type, but not necessarily a type for me. And what is a younger woman? I mean, I'm pretty old. Almost everyone is younger.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Pretty
  • Woman
  • Old

• It's no surprise that I ended up in sportscasting. I lived this world with my father, Mike Storen. Dad was a sports executive for most of my childhood.

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Up
  • World
  • Father

• Bad people sometimes do good things, and good people do really bad things or do something the audience disagrees with.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• I think we all attract troublemakers; I don't think it's particularly about anyone. I had it actually as an album title, and I thought it would be really cool to write a song about a girl that's a bit of troublemaker.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Song
  • Girl
  • Cool

• Why do we take pleasure in gruesome death, neatly packaged as a puzzle to which we may find a satisfactory solution through clues - or if we are not clever enough, have it revealed by the all-powerful tale-teller at the end of the book? It is something to do with being reduced to, and comforted by, playing by the rules.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Why
  • May
  • Book

• I enjoy hard work; I love setting goals and achieving them.

  

  Jewel Kilcher
  • Work
  • Goals

• Get in your kitchens, buy unprocessed foods, turn off the TV, and prepare your own foods. This is liberating.

  

  Joel Salatin

• No one ever taught me, and I never had formal classes in pattern making, so I was like, Okay, I'll just drape, and I'll sew as I pin it.

  

  Alexander Wang

• One of the things I did in my book, I start off with, is explaining how great our grace was: the things we were able to accomplish after the first one-hundred years from slavery.

  

  Burgess Owens
  • Great
  • Book
  • Slavery

• It is only when men lose their contact with this eternal life-flame, and become merely personal, things in themselves, instead ofthings kindled in the flame, that the fight between man and woman begins.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Men
  • Fighting

• It so happened that my goals kind of matched my career progression toward becoming an astronaut.

  

  John L. Phillips
  • Career
  • Goals