Phil Donahue (Phillip John "Phil" Donahue) Quotes

I have moved from certainty to doubt, from devotion to rebellion.

Phil Donahue

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• We've learned a lot about how information needs to flow effectively amongst a group of people. They need to be fed information, and it needs to be on this constant conveyor belt.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Information
  • Flow

• My youth held little forecast of a career in biomedical research. I was born on February 22, 1936, in York, Pennsylvania, and spent my childhood in a rural area on the west bank of the Susquehanna River.

  

  J. Michael Bishop
  • Career
  • Childhood
  • River

• My brothers and I love playing outside and climbing trees. We really love sports, too - I think football's probably my favorite.

  

  Madeline Carroll
  • Love
  • Football
  • Sports

• 'Power' is a very special film for me and is one of the finest films of my career. I have played a character that I have never done before. My role has a lot of comedy.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Character
  • Power
  • Career

• What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Real
  • Artist
  • Prestige

• My target is to give everything, and only if we win the trophies will I be relaxed.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Win
  • Give
  • Target

• I guess you could say I'm a model slash hotelier slash actor slash screenwriter.

  

  Vikram Chatwal
  • You
  • Model
  • Actor

• Makr Shakr aims to share this new potential - design-make-enjoy - with everyone in just a few minutes: the time taken to prepare a new cocktail.

  

  Carlo Ratti
  • Time
  • Taken
  • Design

• Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Theatre
  • Now
  • Dinner

• Physically, I've seen a change in my life. No, I haven't had a face lift or anything like that. I've grown. That's God's countenance.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Life
  • God
  • Change

• I wanted to get into films, and my parents were against it. I convinced my mom, and finally she convinced my dad. My dad then felt, who best to launch his son than him? So he launched me, and here I am.

  

  Vijay
  • Parents
  • Dad
  • Mom

• My wife and I love to read. We're going to have to move out to make room for the books! And we have our dogs.

  

  Gale Gordon
  • Wife
  • Books
  • Read

• For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Success
  • Man
  • Woman

• No one is ever ordinary.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Ordinary
  • Ever

• Between the mysteries of death and lifeThou standest, loving, guiding,- not explaining;We ask, and Thou art silent,- yet we gaze,And our charmed hearts forget their drear complaining;No crushing fate, no stony destiny!Thou Lamb that hast been slain, we rest in Thee.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Art
  • Death
  • Rest

• Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, sir, is not in Nature.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Taken

• To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Beautiful
  • Reading
  • Poetry

• They call me mellow yellow (Quite rightly) They call me mellow yellow...

  

  Donovan

• I don't think I ever used the word passive, but I do think he was looking to feed his teammates. He was looking to pass first and shoot later. This game, I want him to carry the threat.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Game
  • Teammates
  • Feed

• You probably have to have redundant levee systems with canals in between them, like the Dutch have, to make sure that incoming water is channeled off to areas where you deal with it rather than have it drown you.

  

  Billy Tauzin
  • Water

• If a person's religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless. How different would yours have been, had the chance of birth placed you in Tartary or India!

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Different
  • Religious

• 'I would define ‘avarice’ as a consequence of the human estate: a condition arising from turbulence and inequality. In none of the paradises, where conditions are no doubt optimum, does ‘avarice’ exert force. Here, we are men struggling toward perfection and ‘avarice’ is a station along the way.'

  

  Jack Vance
  • Men
  • Doubt

• I think we have made progress. There's no doubt about it, we have moved forward. But there's some essential, core thing that has not been deconstructed. And I'm telling you, it's connected to the body. I know it is.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Progress
  • Moved
  • Connected

• I have moved from certainty to doubt, from devotion to rebellion.

  

  Phil Donahue
  • Doubt
  • Moved
  • Certainty