Adam Phillips Quotes

Transgression is a quest for solitude.

Adam Phillips

• Solitude
• Transgression

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I love what I do.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Love
  • I Love

• My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Hand

• But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Respect
  • Talk
  • Accept

• 'Never confuse sitting on your side with being on your side.'

  

  Ian Paisley

• Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Happy

• When you have enough money the law is a reed that will always bend your way.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Money
  • Law

• Gassoon, for all his lore, subscribed to a common fallacy: he assumed that all those whom he encountered appraised him in the same terms as he did himself.

  

  Jack Vance

• 'Jeeves,' I said, and I am free to admit that in my emotion I bleated like a lamb drawing itself to the attention of the parent sheep, 'what the dickens is all this?'

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Free
  • Attention
  • Drawing

• The Mandelbrot set covers a small space yet carries a large number of different implications. Is it a fitting epitaph? Absolutely.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Different
  • Small
  • Space

• One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

  

  Marie Curie
  • Done

• I love being around people that are smarter than me, that think faster than me. So even if you're a dork, and you wear stupid clothes, and you make a fool of yourself, and everyone makes fun of you, and you're just an idiot-I don't care about the context. I don't care. If you're genius and I recognize it, I kind of dig that.

  

  Courtney Love
  • People
  • Fun
  • Stupid

• My outfits also need to be low-key. I'm a huge fan of boots, sandals, jeans and tank tops! Anything I can move in easily.

  

  Jennifer Nettles Sugarland

• I had accidentally gotten a laugh on a line in a play I was in during high school. I got hooked, but I had no idea I would ever be able to support myself by acting. I knew no one in the business. I was from the Midwest. No one within a radius of a thousand miles was doing anything like that.

  

  Laurie Metcalf
  • School
  • Business
  • High

• People ask why there are so few female artists who succeed. It's because women are not ready to sacrifice as much as men. Women want a man, they want a family, they want to have children, they want to be loved, and to be an artist. And they can't; it's impossible.

  

  Marina Abramovic
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• I might be into writing... I'd like to try it someday. I always come up with some good ideas.

  

  Kevin Dillon
  • Up
  • Good
  • Writing

• Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

  

  Don Marquis

• There is really no room in any healthy diet for trans fat, artificial sweeteners, and artificial colors in food.

  

  Jillian Michaels
  • Food

• I came to Mumbai for my internship in advertising in an ad agency. Back then, a senior from my college who was working for Balaji asked whether I wanted to act. I agreed, and I didn't even know when it became my passion and my hobby.

  

  Kratika Sengar
  • College
  • Passion
  • Senior

• The audience has spoken. They want stories. They’re dying for them. They’re rooting for us to give the right thing. And they will talk about it, binge on it, carry it with them on the bus and to the hairdresser, force it on their friends, tweet, blog, Facebook, make fan pages, silly GIFs, and god knows what else about it..

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • God
  • Friends
  • Giving

• That frankly was not in people's minds because there is a world market in oil.

  

  Jack Straw
  • People
  • World
  • Mind

• To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.

  

  Jeanne Moreau
  • Sun
  • Beach
  • Solitude

• For me, there's nothing better than getting immersed in a sprawling, epic, multi-generational family saga, and 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is the most sprawling, epic, and multi-generational of them all.

  

  Jandy Nelson
  • Family
  • Solitude

• The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,' and altogether everything that is the 'virtue of the herd.' If he cannot lead, he goes alone... He knows he is incommunicable: he finds it tasteless to be familiar... When not speaking to himself, he wears a mask. There is a solitude within him that is inaccessible to praise or blame.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Respect
  • Opinion
  • Solitude

• Transgression is a quest for solitude.

  

  Adam Phillips
  • Solitude
  • Transgression