Phil Anselmo Quotes
I've heard too many times where people say that I'm this ultra-serious guy. In truth, I've got an extremely absurd sense of humor. I thrive on the absurd - I love it.
Quotes to Explore
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When a man interrupts a woman in mid-sentence, it reveals much about him. First, it shows he hasn't been listening to what she is saying, and secondly, it indicates that he doesn't want to listen to what she will say. Her views are not important.
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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The one thing that I've always kind of had, ever since I was a kid, was that I lack a certain degree of self-consciousness, which is alternately good and bad.
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Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
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I am not from a film family or a Mumbai girl. The probability of getting a second chance is low, and so one has to be more careful.
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My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.
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Excelsior, higher and higher, but only step by step.
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When I was a kid, we got in a cipher and battled each other lyrically. We told jokes and made the hottest dance moves.
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The music business is a crazy game, especially for somebody like me who is really a purist about the art. Trying to balance the pressures of commercialism, it's a tightrope. It's a fine line between sticking to your guns and insanity.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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I always preferred my father's pasta the next day, when he'd put it in a hot oven with heaps of extra cheese. It would emerge slightly burned and very crisp on top.
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I hate the fact that people think 'compromise' is a dirty word.
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When I was a kid, a pickleball hit me in the back of the head, and I had memory problems. I was in a boarding school and the nuns gave me poems to remember to try and get the memory going again.
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Forcing people to be generous isn't humanitarian, effective, compassionate or moral. Only acts that are truly voluntary for all concerned can be truly compassionate.
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If I get to be a legend, I've achieved my goal.
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I want to show that the underdog can win. I believe we're all the same: you, a slum girl, my mother.
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That Shaw is the most egotistical thing! He hogged the camera and spent more time with the hairdresser and the makeup man than any actor on the lot!
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But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
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Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved.
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I don't think of myself as a comedian.
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Kindness is the only charm permitted to the aged; it is the coquetry of white hairs.
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If people knew the working of the law of truth and nonviolence, then they would themselves regulate the matter of its shortage.
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I've heard too many times where people say that I'm this ultra-serious guy. In truth, I've got an extremely absurd sense of humor. I thrive on the absurd - I love it.
