Philip Quotes

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I loved this smart, funny, big-hearted novel. As hilarious and wise as early Philip Roth, The Mathematician's Shiva will delight and move you.

I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.

Do you reckon the Queen has ever pulled a blanket up so just her head's showing and gone 'Philip, look at me! I'm a stamp!'

He was seized and dragged off to King Philip, and being asked who he was, replied, "A spy upon your insatiable greed."

I shall not want Honor in Heaven For I shall meet Sir Philip Sidney And have talk with Coriolanus And other heroes of that kidney.

I always wanted to be an actor, but my top three favorite actors of all time are Al Pacino, James Dean and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

I'm prepared to take advice on leisure from Prince Philip. He's a world expert on leisure. He's been practicing it for most of his adult life.

Wild Turkey whiskey and Philip Morris cigarettes are essential to the maintenance of human life!

Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession.

I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings.

There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!

Alexander the Great valued learning so highly, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge than to his father Philip for life.

I love Philip Glass' work, not only as a film composer but also as a musician. The film score work that he does always amazes and shocks me.

Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, 'I am Mrs de Winter now!

It's unthinkable not to love - you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.

I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve.

Since the majority of me Rejects the majority of you, Debating ends forthwith, and we Divide.'' Philip Larkin

Guys like Philip Seymour Hoffman or Sam Rockwell are the guys I look up to and have the kind of career Id like to emulate.

Till last by Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever.

When Philip had news brought him of divers and eminent successes in one day, "O Fortune!" said he, "for all these so great kindnesses do me some small mischief.

Aristotle dines when it seems good to King Philip, but Diogenes when he himself pleases.

A lot of deaths feel sad. Philip Seymour Hoffman's feels like a robbery.

My father Philip was an actor and appeared in everything from 'The Onedin Line' to 'Hedda Gabler' with Dame Diana Rigg.

Philip Martin has written a wise, compassionate, and nurturing guide through the self-oppression of depression.

Philip Sharpe was a soldier in God's army," says the minister. "Now he marches with the angels.

Philip Roth is a good writer, but I wouldn't want to shake hands with him.

She [Mary I] married Philip King of Spain, who in her sister's reign, was famous for building Armadas.

The royals - all of them, especially Prince Philip and Prince Charles - have done outstanding work with the faith communities.

I love playing against Philip Rivers because he is so competitive, he is so fiery. You can just tell how he just gets his guys going.

I'm more interested than Philip Roth in understanding women, even if I do it imperfectly. But that book, Portnoy's Complaint, is literary punk in this way that is rare.

I remember coming upon Philip Larkin in my 20s in the early '60s and when Sylvia Plath's "Ariel" came out it knocked me off my feet.

As an actor, I really like Philip Seymour Hoffman. I think he's a genius.

His aim was the glory of God, but the glory of Philip pleased him too.

I do like Philip Pullman.And that's an exception because Philip Pullman's books allow magic.

The actors I respect are the ones who see it as a career and manage to live reasonably normal lives, like Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Fiorito has all the right stuff. His splendid memoir about his relationship with his dying father belongs on that small shelf with Philip Roth's Patrimony and Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes.

The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged.

I, Philip Kearny, an old soldier, enter my solemn protest against this order for retreat.

Why did you look at the sunset?' Philip answered with his mouth full: Because I was happy.

**Did you realize how much a kiss says, Philip???** Oh My Angel I doooo....A KISS is the beginning of, middle to, and end of most things I love about life.

I prayed the monsters would give up. Or that perhaps Philip of Macedonia would climb back to the terrace (do crocodiles climb?) and renew the fight.

Empire may be gained by gold, not gold by empire. It used, indeed, to be a proverb that "It is not Philip, but Philip's gold that takes the cities of Greece.

Eating next to a twenty-foot-long crocodile took some getting used to, but Philip was well trained. He only ate bacon, stray waterfowl, and the occasional invading monster.

Speaking of [Philip] Larkin, in his poem about the First World War he wrote something like, "Never such innocence, before or since, that turned itself to past without a word".

I do have designers that I love to wear, like Philip Lim and Marc Jacobs whose stuff I know will look good on my body. But still, I always like to express myself by changing things up.

We don't often look into these unpleasant details of our great struggle. We all prefer to think that every man who wore the blue or gray was a Philip Sidney at heart.

Philip Glass once told me, "They can always copy what you've done, but they can't copy what you're going to do."

A friend of mine gave me a Philip Glass record. I listened to it for five hours before I realized it had a scratch on it.

My heroes are people like Philip Levine, who is simply like a god to me, as a writer. And he is a very good man, too.