J.B. Phillips Quotes

You’re the most important thing in the world to me. I know you don’t believe it, but I’m going to prove it to you.

Save your sweet talk for later, Daphne. The garbage guys just drove up with the new Dumpster." "Shut the lid after you climb in.

Let it not be assumed that the artist is so smug as to dislike true criticism. No sincere artist was ever completely satisfied with his labour.

Humility counts for much, but it may be that vanity does not dispossess that admirable quality.

Will the slave fight? If any man asks you, tell him No. But if anyone asks you will a Negro fight, tell him Yes!

[Bobby Tom] finally understood Gracie's function in his life. She was God's joke on him.

You try spending six months sitting at somebody's bedside, waiting for them to die and then tell me that the happy-ending love story isn't one of God's good gifts.

I can’t chitchat and make breakfast at the same time. You could help, you know, instead of standing there like the Queen of England. Although you’re a lot better-looking.

Smoke veils the air like souls in drifting suspension, declining the war's insistence everyone move on.

As far as I'm concerned, men like you were put on this world to entertain women like me.

I take thee... to be my awful wedded husband

If I could put my brain in her body, the world would be mine for the taking.

His writer's words poured over her like poetry, and she couldn't find a single wisecrack to put up between them.

Then he's inside you, and your body remembers, each time, every man, even if you try to forget.

Dallas, is it remotely possible for you to carry on a conversation that's not loaded down with manure?

At some point people either had to throw off the wounds of their childhood or go through life permanently crippled

[Colin to Sugar Beth] I put my heart on every page.

Now, now. Southern ladies don’t French-kiss and tell.

Old radicals never changed. They just got law degrees and updated their bag of tricks.

You deicde, and you make our night what you want. Brilliant and ours. Stupid and theirs.

I hate to admit this, but some days hearing about other people's problems actually cheers me up.

He could deal with his guilt all by himself. Guilt didn't add up to love, an emotion she was done with forever.

I love you, Daisy. I love you so much I hurt.

If I told you, you might be forced to lie about it. Not that you aren't really good at it, but why put an old man in that position?

Was there some basic flaw in her makeup that made her keep falling in love with this man who couldn’t love her back?

Everything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use.

It is always dullest before the yawn.

I can make a virtue of slapdash. Slapdash can give you courage.

Many people with physical disabilities have romantic lives and good marriages to partners who see past their disabilities and recognize all of the things they can do.

My brother and I have too good a relationship to spoil it by working together.

I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people.

I've always turned my anger inwards towards self-destruction.

I am always true to myself, that is the problem. Who else could I be true to?

There are few things more pleasing than the contemplation of order and useful arrangement.

It was so much easier to be alone, if one could find just the right location.

How much of life could he spend aching? Aching is not a stable condition; it must resolve into something

Love is not sufficient. It never has been. Stories that claim otherwise are lies. There's always SOMETHING after happily ever after.

I'd always been treated like an object, not like a human.

Music makes your soul feel amazing while you're performing it.

My dad was a great dad.

The fact of the matter is I'm 21 now. I stay home. I feed my dogs. I don't really go out. I work.

The person who knows everything has the most to learn.

If you want your wife to listen to you, talk to another woman.

He took his misfortune like a man - he blamed it on his wife.

A credit card sometimes adds to the high cost of living but more often to the cost of high living.

It is a good thing to let someone else's vision take over, and it has always been a good thing in the end.

After being in the creative, hermetic state I have been in, coming out has been painful, but it is getting easier.

I think that it's always more interesting to combine familiar sounds together in a new way and with newer sounds if you can make it work, rather than sticking to just one style too strictly.

I love the feeling of nostalgia vying with the present. That can be from song to song, or within the same song.

You always want an album to sound like its own little planet.