William Lyon Phelps Quotes

A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.

William Lyon Phelps

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• It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • People
  • Important
  • Why

• I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Where
  • Still
  • Charge

• One of the things I wonder is whether it's good that the whole free model makes a lot of people listen to more of your music. I'm wondering if it devalues it, it becomes disposable, because you can get it so easily.

  

  Tablo
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.

  

  C. K. Williams
  • Poetry
  • Write
  • Poems

• I have always lived an ordinary life, and always will. It's who and what has to do with my job that makes it 'unordinary.' I cook, go to the supermarket, pick my children up at school.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Up
  • Children

• No element gets people telling crazy stories like mercury does. People have told me tales about pharmacists waxing floors with mercury, mothers rubbing it into babies' skin to kill germs, and 10-year-olds coating dimes in it to make them shine, then blithely carrying them around in their pockets.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Shine

• Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Thought
  • Devil
  • Witch

• We sold OkCupid to Match in January of 2011. In September of 2012, I became CEO of all of Match, which is the operating segment of IAC that contains all of the dating properties.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Dating
  • September
  • January

• No matter how many times you say Social Security is broke, the reality is that Social Security's independent revenue stream and its Trust Fund's investments maintain the program's solvency until 2037, when it may begin to fall short.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • May
  • Reality
  • Fall

• Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • True
  • Self
  • Consequences

• I think that 'Lost' is a bit of a dinosaur in terms of the type of show it is. The economics just don't support making a show this big and complicated profitable enough for a network.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Think
  • Support
  • Lost

• I have legendary massive breakfasts at hotels. I don't hold back. I'll get there at 7A.M. and I'll be the last out at 11 A.M., having gone up and down the buffet seven times.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • Up
  • Down
  • Back

• But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where I fault Stephen Ambrose and a lot of these guys who attack me - not all of life is a result of conspiracy by any means! Accident occurs alongside conspiracy.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Life
  • Think
  • Question

• I have many debates now with friends on the changes, and the continuing confusion over bringing up your children, instilling values, letting them make the right choices.

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Up
  • Children
  • Friends

• Our marine terminals are invaluable commerce infrastructure, not only to our country but also for the many foreign manufacturers who sell primarily in the U.S. market.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • Country
  • Market
  • Marine

• Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Good
  • Live
  • Job

• I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • People
  • Solitude
  • Bond

• Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • World
  • Lies
  • Possible

• An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Leaving
  • Outside
  • Washington

• Individuals fail to recognise how their perennial state of sleep deficiency has come to compromise their mental aptitude and physical vitality, including the slow accumulation of ill health.

  

  Matthew Walker
  • Health
  • Sleep

• I'm not sure God wants us to be happy. I think he wants us to love, and be loved. But we are like children, thinking our toys will make us happy and the whole world is our nursery. Something must drive us out of that nursery and into the lives of others, and that something is suffering.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • God
  • Thinking

• Beauty and love pass, I know... Oh, there's sadness, too. I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses-

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Great
  • Death
  • Mean

• Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Future
  • Past
  • Judge

• A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.

  

  William Lyon Phelps
  • Book
  • Past
  • Mean