P. J. Bailey Quotes

It's the augmented fourth, or diminished fifth, depending on your outlook on life.

The greatest act of courage is not falling in love But, despite everything, falling in love again.

The sea, the majestic sea, breaks everything, crushes everything, cleans everything, takes everything...from me

It matters not how long we live but how.

I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.

People that call old leads, drive old cars.

Blanche is written with a terrible authority, the authority that comes from artistic necessity when the writer is compelled to write by his demon, rather than by his agent or promoter.

Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world.

The world is a great poem, and the world's The words it is writ in, and we souls the thoughts.

I was ten when I got my first serious beating. It was rough.

Is there any progress in horticulture? If not, it is dead, uninspiring. We cannot live in the past good as it is; we must draw our inspiration from the future.

By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before.

With the tears a Land hath shed. Their graves should ever be green.

Each lawyer makes somebody unhappy either by beating him, embarrassing him or tying him in knots.

I discuss humanity and not races.

Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music.

You can taste a word.

People want security in this insecure world.

Shakespeare is forever coming into our affairs -- putting in his oar, so to speak -- with some pat word or sentence.

Champions have no off-season.

In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison.

If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.

Obviously, for me, that person has got to have a beauty to them - and it's not always physical beauty. It's important that I love someone's character and that I click with it.

Walk boldly and wisely.... There is a hand above that will help you on.

Come to Belarus, where wild animals will steal your fruit

Merry Christmas, movie house! Merry Christmas, Emporium! Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan!

Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon It works, on e'er self-transmutative form, Common to now the living, now the dead.

Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.

Lowliness is the base of every virtue, And he who goes the lowest builds the safest.

You got to be real with yourself and not just let yourself pass on things that tend to become a bad habit. Make sure you stay on top of practicing well and preparing the way you always do.

Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads.

Or, as I call it, a Cheesel, it's a Weasel with a Cheese finish.

I'm not much into current electronic stuff, what I think of as lounge electronics, mumbling electronics.

Well, I think that it's clear that the Republican Party is a pro-life party. And we do value life. And we do believe that the unborn have a right to life.

Cheerleading gave me a love of sports, which I brought to the Senate. I can talk to the good ol' boys about college sports because I follow it like they do.

I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could.

The sole equality on earth is death.

There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.

The important thing is that we recognize our President's leadership, that he is not saying: I am going to walk away from this. He is saying: I am going to do the right thing.

Evil and good are God's right hand and left.

I'm tired of being set upon by crazed Christians one minute and unbridled libertines the next. Girls, I'm going camping.

Could we but think with the intensity we love with, we might do great things.

I run the gauntlet of a file of doubts, Each one of which down hurls me to the ground.

I have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business.

Solo concerts are murder, I find; I don't like doing them.

I cannot be content with less than heaven.

Hebe's here, May is here! The air is fresh and sunny; And the miser-bees are busy Hoarding golden honey.

Blest is he whose heart is the home of the great dead and their great thoughts.

The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool, And to the false, error and truth alike, Error is worse than ignorance.

I want to give as many Canadians the opportunity to be successful and if we can use their athletic gifts to get them a free degree or a free diploma across the border then I guess I'm doing my job.