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

• It's brilliant having loads of girls running after you. It's also a shock when you realise just how much attention you're getting. Eventually, you start to think, 'I'd rather settle down and be normal.'

  

  Joe Gilgun
  • Running
  • Attention

• 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

• Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Life
  • Forever
  • inspirational

• We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.

  

  Ezra Stiles
  • Chance
  • Monarchy
  • Aristocracy

• O thou beautiful And unimaginable ether! and Ye multiplying masses of increased And still increasing lights! what are ye? what Is this blue wilderness of interminable Air, where ye roll along, as I have seen The leaves along the limpid streams of Eden? Is your course measur'd for ye? Or do ye Sweep on in your unbounded revelry Through an aerial universe of endless Expansion,--at which my soul aches to think,-- Intoxicated with eternity.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Universe
  • Lights
  • Masses

• So I was surprised at the notion that I might have brought anthrax to my home, and would have been even amused if it was not for the fact that this matter is so grave and serious.

  

  Steven Hatfill
  • Home
  • Serious
  • Fact

• Comrade Mao, whether he was crossing 'a sea of surging waves' or scaling 'a mountain pass impregnable as iron' always held unwaveringly to his course, setting a shining example for the Chinese Communist Party.

  

  Xi Jinping
  • Party
  • Sea
  • Chinese

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

  

  Wintley Phipps
  • Mountain
  • Climb
  • Smooth