Bill Phillips Quotes

We would all be better off if our doctors took us aside, sat down next to us, and gave us this compassionate, yet universally true, warning, I'm very sorry to have to remind you of this, but you've got only so much time to live; I suggest you begin, now, to make the most of every minute of every day.

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• The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Why
  • True
  • Free

• I drove right into the music with the same sort of attitude as I went into the football stuff with. Just found a routine and hard work, and it helped me progress a lot faster.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Work
  • Music
  • Football

• Few things parallel the bonding that occurs post-performance when congratulatory remarks are awarded, regrets are confessed, and gossip is exchanged.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Gossip
  • Regrets
  • Bonding

• In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • Real
  • Rich
  • Poor

• I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.

  

  B. B. King
  • Different
  • Love
  • Like

• It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.

  

  Adam Baldwin
  • People
  • Family
  • Enjoy

• You always have to be worried about something that is considered a so-called 'scientific theory' that fits every scenario. Climate change, as they've defined it, can never be disproved.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • You
  • Change
  • Climate Change

• I'm a pro-life candidate because I believe that science is proving us right every day.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Science

• Working within the limitations of the shared world generally made the writing easier, because I didn't have to invent any of the characters or background, which is usually the hardest part.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • World
  • Writing
  • Working

• I'm just a human being. I'm from the projects, too.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Human
  • Being
  • Human being

• We live in a world of communication - everyone gets information about everyone else. There is universal comparison and you don't just compare yourself with the people next door, you compare yourself to people all over the world and with what is being presented as the decent, proper and dignified life. It's the crime of humiliation.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Italy: '...they are indeed a repulsive nation these dagoes, both the men and the women & I'm just longing to quit them for good & all !!!' (18 September 1918)

  

  Edward VIII
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• The bearings of this observation lays in the application on it.

  

  Charles Dickens

• And for every project, because it takes years, you can see the early drawings and collages as just a simple, vague idea, and through the years and through the negotiations of getting the permit, you see that every detail is now clarified.

  

  Christo
  • Simple

• If I need to cheer myself up, I will put on some fabulous '40s musical on video. But I'm very lucky; I seldom get depressed. Without question, I'm a 'glass half full' person. In fact, it's three-quarters full!

  

  Joan Collins
  • Up
  • Question
  • Cheer

• The essential property of insoluble bilayers is that they optimise their area at fixed surfactant number.

  

  Pierre-Gilles de Gennes

• I think everyone is very surprised at how 'Matrix' has become the pop culture phenomenon that it is.

  

  Laurence Fishburne
  • Culture
  • Matrix

• The way that I am now, I don't want to accept mediocrity. I don't want to accept the easy road.

  

  Joe Nichols
  • Road

• The way out of the maze of whiteness and blackness that led inevitably, repeatedly, to violent conflict was through the simple recognition of and respect for blacks and whites as not two races but one: the human race.

  

  Aberjhani
  • Respect
  • Simple

• You think education is something to be done when all else fails?

  

  T. H. White
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • Education

• Beauty has never been absolute and immutable but has taken on different aspects depending on the historical period and the country

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Different
  • Country
  • Taken

• I didn't know you would be here last night, but you were. We can't fight fate. Instead, we must accept that fate has given us a special opportunity.

  

  Lisa See
  • Night
  • Opportunity
  • Fight

• It's weird, but everything I've envisioned so far has come true, which is amazing.

  

  Cheyenne Kimball
  • True
  • Everything
  • Envisioned

• We would all be better off if our doctors took us aside, sat down next to us, and gave us this compassionate, yet universally true, warning, I'm very sorry to have to remind you of this, but you've got only so much time to live; I suggest you begin, now, to make the most of every minute of every day.

  

  Bill Phillips
  • Sorry
  • Doctors
  • Compassionate