Thomas Scott "Flip" Phillips Quotes
From a legal perspective, ... the copy was not on file with the auditor for 10 days.
Quotes to Explore
-
In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
-
I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.
-
All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
-
Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
-
Right now, I'm not really thinking about marriage.
-
The African-American tradition, in the main, is very, very church-based, very, very Christian. It accepts, you know, certain narratives about the world. I didn't really have that present in my house.
-
I think it's nice to do work that is vaguely compromising to your health because it means you really care about it.
-
I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.
-
I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.
-
I'm kind of a private person.
-
I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.
-
The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
-
Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.
-
You know, bigotry isn't relevant to just the South. It never was. But I'm very grateful that I don't know what it's like from experience.
-
My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.
-
I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.
-
In the long run, we will need many more African-American, Latino, and Native American leaders, and leaders from low-income communities, who can bring additional insight and a deeply grounded sense of urgency, and who are the most likely to inspire the necessary trust and engagement among students' parents and community leaders.
-
I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.
-
When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.
-
Eventually the bad stuff I'm writing turns into better stuff. Other times, I've just walked away from what I was working on, and figured I'd have a better perspective when I came back to it.
-
Tolerance is important, especially in a democracy. The ability to have honest conversations, even if you come from a different place, a difference perspective, is fundamentally important.
-
It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.
-
To be human is to be lost in the woods.
-
From a legal perspective, ... the copy was not on file with the auditor for 10 days.
