Phil Collins Quotes

I never said I was at the Alamo. Someone else said I was at the Alamo. Now I'm a nutter. I don't think that's fair.

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• I've been really humbled by other women who've reached out to me across the country. Not just women who are running for Congress and federal office, but elementary school students running for student council or high school students who are their class presidents.

  

  Elise Stefanik
  • Women
  • Country
  • School

• I will do 'Dancing with the Stars' when my career dips.

  

  Pauly D
  • Career

• I want to be Jacques Pepin. I want to have a nice 50-, 60-year career. I want to be on PBS when I'm 70-something, still kicking it, having a great time, showing up in Aspen to sign cookbooks. I just want to have a nice, big, long career.

  

  Tyler Florence
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• There are plenty of eyewitness accounts, just because you're so narrow-minded you need to have everything shoved under your nose before you-

  

  Joanne Rowling

• There is nothing like a trail of blood to find your way back home. When you've lost it all, that's when you finally realize that life is beautiful.

  

  Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe
  • Lost
  • Trail
  • Life Is Beautiful

• Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don't have to riot.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Man

• I'm not an overnight sensation. I'm a Texan. And I'm a Texas success story. I am the epitome of hard work and optimism.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Work
  • Success
  • Texas

• To see things in the seed, that is genius.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • See
  • Genius
  • Seed

• 'British Empire. First trip to India. Glorious. Never would have believed it would all be gone in my lifetime. Not possible, I’d’ve thought. I am the last king-emperor, you know. My brother was, for a time, but had to give it up. I didn’t'

  

  Edward VIII
  • Up
  • Time
  • Brother

• Salad can get a bad rap. People think of bland and watery iceberg lettuce, but in fact, salads are an art form, from the simplest rendition to a colorful kitchen-sink approach.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • People
  • Art
  • Bad

• The older one gets the more one comes to resemble oneself.

  

  Maurice Chevalier

• But I don't feel the need to be famous.

  

  Jessica Alba
  • Famous

• It is an honor to join my former colleague in Congress, Jim McCrery, and the very talented team at Capitol Counsel.

  

  Charles Boustany
  • Team
  • Honor

• I've never had a zombie eat a brain! I don't know where that comes from. Who says zombies eat brains?

  

  George A. Romero
  • Brain

• I'm saying my rosary every day.

  

  Jordana Brewster

• The entity that gives life and motion to the human body is finer still and lies infinitely beyond the reach of our finest scientific instruments. When this entity deserts the body, the body is like a ship without a rudder - deserted, motionless, dead.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Life
  • Motion
  • Entity

• I never stopped thinking about the Alamo from that day to this. I'm a huge collector of memorabilia. I've got Davy Crockett's bullet pouch. I've got Colonel Travis's belt.

  

  Phil Collins Genesis
  • Thinking
  • Alamo

• Originally, I thought the story of the Alamo was all these men defending their liberty when they could have left, knowing they were going to die. That's without a doubt what appealed to me, the romance and the nobility. But, as in life, the more you dig the more you find out that things weren't quite like that.

  

  Phil Collins Genesis
  • Men
  • Story
  • Liberty

• Freddie is great. At a time when everybody around was doing God knows what, Queen was making music.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Knows
  • Queens

• I never said I was at the Alamo. Someone else said I was at the Alamo. Now I'm a nutter. I don't think that's fair.

  

  Phil Collins Genesis
  • Alamo
  • Nutter