Phil Collins Quotes

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.

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• I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Good
  • Long
  • Value

• Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Vision
  • Persistence
  • Award

• Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Fall
  • Woman
  • Grace

• I don't understand why women journalists always ask women about motherhood? It's far more important and interesting for women to talk about their work, their thoughts, their creativity and their individual identity.

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Work
  • Important
  • Women

• The reason why I moved from Young Thug to Jeffery was because I felt like I did a wrong turn.

  

  Young Thug
  • Why
  • Reason
  • Young

• I was young and irresponsible, a silly woman laden with sin, not caring for anything except fame and fortune and self. But I have lived seeking truth in Jesus Christ and found it has made me free.

  

  Vanity
  • Truth
  • Free
  • Jesus

• I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • History
  • Never
  • Dramatic

• Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Arts

• For some reason, I like to put myself in situations where I don't even know how I ended up there. I never want to be complacent or comfortable in a role.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Up
  • Want
  • Know

• I've wanted to be an actor since I was 6 years old. I was literally picked off the streets of Paris... while I was modeling there. I was asked to audition for Oliver Stone's 'Alexander.' I didn't get the part, but that led to commercials and roles in South Africa.

  

  Tanit Phoenix
  • Paris
  • Streets
  • Modeling

• Even if you've gone easy on the vermouth, there are still serious downsides to alcohol consumption, including but not limited to the sense that you're a good dancer.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Good
  • Serious
  • Easy

• If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.

  

  Ralph Kiner
  • Today
  • Alive
  • Spinning

• Es ist so bequem, unmündig zu sein. Habe ich ein Buch, das für mich Verstand hat, einen Seelsorger, der für mich Gewissen hat, einen Arzt, der für mich die Diät beurtheilt u. s. w., so brauche ich mich ja nicht selbst zu bemühen. Ich habe nicht nöthig zu denken, wenn ich nur bezahlen kann.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Die

• If men could only know each other, they would never either idolize or hate.

  

  Elbert Hubbard
  • Men
  • Hate

• Wo viel Licht ist, ist starker Schatten.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• How much good it would do if one could exterminate the human race.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Good

• I don't know that anyone comes from a truly functional family.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Family

• The best ally you can have in breaking up a street fight is a grandmother.

  

  Joe Bob Briggs
  • Up
  • Grandmother

• As the day goes on you get more and more tired. Even if people say they're afternoon people or evening people, it's always best to start out first thing in the morning with your most important task as opposed to your email, phone calls, or checking the internet. If you start out with that then basically you'll just do that all day long.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Important
  • Long

• I think in a creative effort, in any creative effort, you need to, people need to be able to be taking risks and if it turns out to be a mistake, if it turns out not to have been the right choice, that should be applauded, you know, by everybody, and it will come up with another plan.

  

  Brian Henson
  • People
  • Effort
  • Mistake

• Be a good ancestor. Stand for something bigger than yourself. Add value to the Earth during your sojourn.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Good
  • Earth
  • Value

• It is derogatory to the dignity of mankind, it is derogatory to the dignity of India, to entertain for one single moment hatred towards Englishmen.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • India
  • Englishmen
  • Derogatory

• 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