P. J. Bailey Quotes

Illness isolates; the isolated become invisible; the invisible become forgotten. But the snail....the snail kept my spirit from evaporating.

When one life changes, many lives are changed.

I don't belong to any country clubs. I don't have this big circle of friends. Where I make my friends is where I work.

The best enjoyment is half disappointment to what we intend or would have in this world.

Life's too short not to enjoy what you're working on.

Knowing when you're not good at something and knowing when you are good at something is an art-form.

Alexey Brodovitch used to say, "Astonish me." We as the team at Bazaar hear that everyday because we want to surprise people.

I want technology to work for me, and my readers. People get confused that technology comes first. The ideas come first. You need to use the medium.

Nobody wants to be the same as anybody else.

I firmly believe that Harper's Bazaar is the star. I am there to make it the best it possibly can be, but there should be no confusion. I want to put Harper's Bazaar front and center.

It's just as important to let go and let somebody do what they're best at and other times, I'm very determined to get exactly what I know we need. It's that balance.

To me, cases like that really scream out, 'Hey, it's not out there. It's in here.' There's no indication that this mother is prone to raise very feminine boys because his twin is not that way.

A young man with good health and a poor appetite can save up money.

The world is full of corruption, and deceit, and deviltry — chock full of it.

I found that I really enjoy helping people. I enjoy getting to know people and helping them in whatever endeavor they're trying to commit to.

I am not a moderate. I am a conservative. I'm a fix-it conservative.

We cannot afford to lose the Medicaid funding for low-income women.

People can't imagine an enemy that would cut someone's head off before a video camera and spread it out across the world. But that has happened with the kind of enemy we are now facing.

Harriet Miers is totally qualified for the Supreme Court of the United States. Her legal background, her absolute leadership in the legal field when she was a practicing lawyer are unqualified.

For our country to be safe from terrorists we must stabilize Iraq and show that it can be done and take out these terrorist organizations who would harm Americans. Our freedom is at stake here.

It is one of the ironies of biographical art that some details are more relevant than others, and many details have no relevance at all.

Sometimes I would almost rather have people take years of my life than take away a moment.

How can you give a man a room in a house and not let him come through the front door?

Life is less than nothing without love.

Love is the art of hearts, and heart or arts.

None but the brave and beautiful can love.

Dreams are rudiments Of the great state to come. We dream what is About to happen.

Application is the price to be paid for mental acquisition. To have the harvest, we must sow the seed.

The ground of all great thoughts is sadness.

Necessity, like electricity, is in ourselves and all things, and no more without us than within us.

Not a single path Of thought I tread, but that it leads to God.

Worthy books Are not companions – they are solitudes: We lose ourselves in them and all our cares.

We live not to ourselves, our work is life.

Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more.

The strongest passion which I have is honor.

If all were rich, gold would be penniless.

Men might be better if we better deemed of them.

Star canto: star speaks light, and world to world Repeats the passage of the universe To God; the name of Christ--the one great word Well worth all languages in earth or heaven.

What men call accident is God's own part.

Tis light translateth night; 'tis inspiration Expounds experience; 'tis the west explains The east; 'tis time unfolds Eternity.

We must not pluck death from the Maker's hand.

Oh, could we lift the future's sable shroud.

Naught but God Can satisfy the soul.

Fulfill thy fate! Be-do-bear-and thank God.

Any heart turned Godward feels more joyIn one short hour of prayer, than e'er was raisedBy all the feasts of earth since its foundation.

A poet not in love is out at sea; He must have a lay-figure.

As the master so the valet.

We love and live in power; it is the spirit's end. Mind must subdue; to conquer is its life.

Youth might be wise; we suffer less from pains than pleasures.

Man is one; and he hath one great heart. It is thus we feel, with a gigantic throb athwart the sea, each other's rights and wrongs; thus are we men.