Wintley Phipps Quotes

Son, if the mountain were smooth, you couldn't climb it.

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• Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Good
  • Man
  • Doubt

• I don't think anything's ever simple. Everyone's just trying to understand each other, and whether that's because you're in a relationship or because you're meeting their friends or because their meeting your brother or whatever it is, nothing like that is ever smooth running.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Trying
  • Friends
  • Relationship

• I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Want
  • Talent

• What I do onstage, there's maybe .0001 percent of the population that acts like that. I talk like that because it makes me laugh, and because I know a couple of people that talk like that. They're really that Southern. And they do funny things. I love 'em; they're awesome. They're good people.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • People
  • Funny
  • Know

• I went to high school in Stockton, CA.

  

  Cameron Dokey
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• California is a great big nation of one They never knew what they wanted ’til it was already gone

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Great
  • California

• No government functions without the grease of corruption.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Grease

• The chestnut casts his flambeaux, and the flowersStream from the hawthorn on the wind away,The doors clap to, the pane is blind with showers.Pass me the can, lad; there’s an end of May.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • May
  • Wind

• Possession of anything begins in the mind.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Mind

• I had a family, I had children, I got married. My ambition changed.

  

  Penelope Ann Miller
  • Children
  • Family
  • Ambition

• I think there are some liberals who are extremely biased about Fox News and wish to shun it or wish to criticize any liberal who appears on Fox News. That, to me, is not a particularly liberal attitude.

  

  Alan Colmes
  • Wish
  • Attitude

• If I was performing, I had no pain. But you can't stay on stage 24 hours a day.

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • Pain

• I used to be called a post-modern clown. But now, post-modernism is a quaint notion, too.

  

  Bill Irwin

• There'd be days in high school where I thought I played well, my team got the win, and I'd go to the gym still in my uniform, and my dad would say, 'C'mon, let's go. We have more work to do.'

  

  Jalen Brunson
  • Work
  • School
  • High

• I think I succeeded in getting the Egyptian people excited about the importance of science, and this is the only way Egypt can get out of this dark ages.

  

  Ahmed Zewail
  • People
  • Science
  • Dark

• Early on my career, I figured out that I just have to write the book I have to write at that moment. Whatever else is going on in the culture is just not that important. If you could get the culture to write your book, that would be great. But the culture can't write your book.

  Colson Whitehead
  • Great
  • Important
  • Book

• I try to have each book be an antidote to the one before.

  Colson Whitehead
  • Book

• I wanna make stuff that sonically sounds really good. I don't wanna make a song about how people think I'm this when I'm really that. I don't wanna make a song about how I grew up broke.

  

  Natassia Gail Zolot
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Each organism, no matter how simple or complex, has around it a sacred bubble of space, a bit of mobile territoriality which only a few other organisms are allowed to penetrate and then only for short periods of time.

  

  Edward T. Hall
  • Time
  • Space
  • Simple

• By being a waiter 100 percent, I think I was a lot like any other actor in New York. I had credits because I'd work lunches during the week, and then on a Wednesday would go be lucky enough to be in a movie like 'Kinsey.'

  

  John Krasinski
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Wednesday

• No charm, no humor, no wit -- and a personality which can only be described as 'icky.' .

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Personality
  • Humor
  • Charm

• I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.

  

  Caleb Carr
  • World
  • Live
  • Alone

• I am but a poor struggling soul yearning to be wholly good, wholly truthful and wholly non-violent in thought, word and deed, but ever failing to reach the ideal which I know to be true. It is a painful climb, but each step upwards makes me feel stronger and fit for the next.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Word
  • Climb
  • Truthful

• Son, if the mountain were smooth, you couldn't climb it.

  

  Wintley Phipps
  • Mountain
  • Climb
  • Smooth