Phil Everly Quotes
It's hard to get fluffed up about love anymore. I've lived it. I try to avoid it. If I'm extremely fond of a woman, if I think I might really wind up walking down the aisle again... I go in another direction.
Quotes to Explore
-
They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
-
The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.
-
What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
-
All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.
-
I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
-
I don't know who Little Richard is.
-
My number one thing is to recycle everything from newspaper to aluminum cans, and I even use a canvas bag instead of the plastic ones when I go to the grocery store.
-
I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
-
I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing.
-
I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
-
I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
-
I'm not a tech guy. I'm looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people's eyes.
-
I'm always amused when the 'New York Times' writes editorials trying to be helpful to Republicans and say, 'This is the way Republicans can save themselves.' Look, the 'New York Times' disagrees with us. They're entitled to disagree with us, but it's not like we should take their advice.
-
'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
-
I'm down for adventure and up for anything.
-
But you are absolutely right that when the international community decides to help in a meaningful manner a country like Afghanistan, then coordination between the various actors that are involved in these processes is very, very difficult indeed.
-
Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
-
You know when someone's over-flattering you in a way. You smile but you can't believe it.
-
The way you give your name to others is a measure of how much you like and respect yourself.
-
Personally, I just want to work on stuff that challenges me, that excites me, and that I think is original. You want to do something that does to other people what films do to you. It's the most wonderful thing in the world when you can lose yourself from reality and go into a story, and believe it and go on that journey with people, and you have to work that will somehow do that. It won't always, but hopefully sometimes.
-
I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar.
-
God, why didn't you make Woman first - when you were fresh?
-
If you want to attract the coolest man in the world become the coolest woman in the world.
-
It's hard to get fluffed up about love anymore. I've lived it. I try to avoid it. If I'm extremely fond of a woman, if I think I might really wind up walking down the aisle again... I go in another direction.
