J.B. Phillips Quotes

I just recently became aware of how tenuous my life is. I don't have time for fear.

I get scared as crap to perform but I push myself to do it. I don't know what I would be doing without it.

I'd rather sell 10,000 records that represent me than 2 million that don't represent me at all.

We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must undertake something so great that you cannot accomplish it unaided.

It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.

Pray for and work for fullness of life above every thing; full red blood in the body; full honesty and truth in the mind; and the fullness of a grateful love for the Saviour in your heart.

To say 'well done'to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.

Think of life as a voyage. The truest liver of the truest life is like a voyager who, as he sails, is not indifferent to all the beauty of the sea around him.

The feet of the humblest may walk in the field Where the feet of the Holiest trod, This, then, is the marvel to mortals revealed.

I wasn't hugely popular at school. In fact, I was bullied at school.

When I'm a brunette, it's four times harder to hail a taxi. Then I go blonde again, and suddenly there are taxis everywhere.

I'm sorry to say I'm very lizard-like. My skin is dry, so covering my face in greasy antioxidants is a better alternative.

Unfortunately, many children throughout the UK witness violence in the family home. Let's stand up for those children. Domestic violence needs to stop.

You remind me of someone with a bad toothache who's hitting herself in the head with a hammer to distract herself from the pain in her mouth.

There’s no accounting for the mysteries of the human heart

I was taught that you didn't want to be part of the group - that it was better to do your own thing.

I don't like to think that I am a slave to technique, or so inept that I have to restrict myself to one method.

In painting, whether colour reflection is apparent or not, every hue must echo neighbouring hues, so that homogeneity may be attained.

The deserving are not always blest. That peculiar attribute known as personality is as potent a factor as genius.

The most admirable method is that by which each wash of colour, large or small, is never disturbed. It admits of practically no overpainting, sponging or scrubbing. The colour stays where it is put.

It is easy to be independent when all behind you agree with you, but the difficulty comes when nine hundred and ninety-nine of your friends think you are wrong.

Peace, if possible, but justice at any rate.

Republics exist only on tenure of being agitated.

The hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.

It is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world

I love the sport and being competitive.

You cannot make horses 'safe.

I'm not trying to succeed for the people who are waiting for me to fail. I'm doing it for myself. I'm one for the 'You only live once so you should do as much as you can' sort of thing.

My dad's not a big talker.

If you want me, you'll have to earn me. And, mister, I don't come cheap.

What are you gonna do, angel face? Stab me with your eyebrow pencil?

I never had innocence.

Before I moved to Brooklyn to pursue music, I was a high school dropout and speed freak who'd been living with her dealer boyfriend in Bucks County, Pennsylvania at 16.

I think I am a late-bloomer. My taste in music just keeps getting better.

I've always been down-to-earth about money.

Photos are our autobiography, a way of telling who we are.

What other people think is their problem.

Communication is the key to successful relationships.

Pets require feeding, training, affection and exercise, but in return they offer unconditional love and companionship.

We usually spend one hour per week on ballet but Marta Karolyi has us do a lot of compulsory floor in the morning practice.

It's easier to stay in shape than to fluctuate.

There are hundreds of thousands of kids walking around with a sleeping monster inside them.

You must learn, you must let God teach you, that the only way to get rid of your past is to make a future out of it. God will waste nothing.

Do not dare to live without some clear intention toward which your living shall be bent. Mean to be something with all your might.

Get up; repent. Come to God. Get the pattern of your life from Him, and then go about your work and be yourself.

Devotion is like the candle which Michael Angelo used to take in his pasteboard cap, so as not to throw his shadow upon the work in which he was engaged.

Wherever, in any world, a soul, by free-willed obedience, catches the fire of God's likeness, it is set into the growing walls, a living stone.

If you get 10,000 guys to put their ideal woman into a computer, it still comes out looking like Angelina Jolie.

Writing is hard for everybody except fools.