I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we actually have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards.
Philip K. Dick
Related I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, no... PHILIP K. DICK I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, no... PHILIP K. DICK In our own life, we don't have a lot of control over our world. When I make my own world, I'm in con... BARBARA HODGES But I don't want to write my own fiction,' Cath said, as emphatically as she could. 'I don't want to... RAINBOW ROWELL America does not want vulgarity and sexual exploitation to be our values and we do not want the worl... CHARLES W. PICKERING The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world,... JAMES HILLMAN First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If... ROBERT CECIL DAY-LEWIS First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If... CECIL DAY-LEWIS I want my children to understand the world, but not just because the world is fascinating and the hu... HOWARD GARDNER In this tour around the world I was not interested in contemporary buildings because I had seen cont... MINORU YAMASAKI My theory on literature is an author who does not indulge in trashiness-writes about people you coul... BOOTH TARKINGTON I actually write my own music whenever I have a chance. I play guitar and sing. ALEXANDER LUDWIG You put books out into the world, and people form their own visuals and images and attachments to ch... CASSANDRA CLARE Why am I compelled to write?... Because the world I create in the writing compensates for what the r... GLORIA ANZALDUA The music industry is such a different world from the acting world. Everything is really last minute... HAYLEY KIYOKO I think the world would be a lot better off if more people were to define themselves in terms of the... HILLARY CLINTON I think as the world changes, we have to keep up. We have to note what is happening, and I think wri... LEE SMITH Men live in a fantasy world. I know this because I am one, and I actually receive my mail there. SCOTT ADAMS The narcissist act is not an act. I actually am a narcissist, very much so. My world revolves around... TUCKER MAX My dark little secret is that I don't actually believe many people in the art world have much fe... CHARLES SAATCHI Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do. DANIEL MELGAçO Today I am in control because I want to be. I have my fingers on the switch, but have lived a lifeti... A.S. KING I can't write a scene unless I've visualized it. Unless I can actually see it, and that'... ERIC VAN LUSTBADER The friends whom I have are invaluable, and although not numerous they are sufficient for my enjoyme... GEORGE COMBE If you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s be... JODI PICOULT I have been offered the highest paid contracts in the world. I refused them all. It's not my thi... AZZEDINE ALAIA I'm not smart enough to write about something that didn't actually happen to me, ... It's not a plan... PAUL REISER I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually s... ZEDD That's not the point. We want to protect our guys. This is all about our guys, and our moral standar... JOHN MURTHA I feel like I'm in my own world: in the world but not a part of it. LEE RADZIWILL I want to do transformational work to actually fix the world. PATRICK SOON-SHIONG Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplatio... EMILE DURKHEIM Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplati... EMILE DURKHEIM As much as we may want to withdraw into a world of pure problem solving, we have to acknowledge that... JESSE JAMES GARRETT Stylistically, I love make-up. I love doing my own make-up and stuff, but clothes-wise, I actually d... LANA DEL REY Stuffing is my favorite food in the world! I actually have been known to go buy stuffing and make it... EMMA ROBERTS I would have you come into the heart of the outer world and meet reality. Merely going on with your ... RABINDRANATH TAGORE First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If... C. DAY LEWIS Consciousness of unconsciousness PHILIP K. DICK Because of their size and strength they can cause injury. People in other parts of the world who hav... DAVID SCHOFIELD I do not belong to this world. I continue to write everything in longhand. If I have to see somethin... ELIE WIESEL What I actually wanted to do with my life is make a difference to the world. That led me into scienc... AUBREY DE GREY I tell you one thing -- if you want peace of mind, do not find fault with others. Rather learn to se... SRI SARADA DEVI I tell you one thing / if you want peace of mind, do not find fault with others. Rather learn to see... SRI SARADA DEVI Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possi... ORSON SCOTT CARD The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL What treaty have the Sioux made with the white man that we have broken? Not one. What treaty have th... SITTING BULL I'll write about myself, or people I know, or archetypal characters, but the goal is to get at s... CONOR OBERST I'm just lucky because my kids are grown-up - I love them, very proud of them, and we are in clo... ROBERT PLANT I love to bring humour into my work. Because comedy is not a huge part of the art world. And big-bus... JAMES FRANCO I want to put all my efforts into the Commonwealth Games. The World Indoors would be more of a greed... JADE JOHNSON I have always liked the idea of going to print because a big part of what we are about is to dissemi... JIMMY WALES What it takes is to actually write: not to think about it, not to imagine it, not to talk about it, ... LUANNE RICE We don't actually want any supplier recovery because we prefer not to have any warranty claims. But ... TERRY ADAMS People deal with grief in many different ways. And some people in show business parade their relatio... RUPAUL Having spent so much time in a fictional world, I prefer to read about the real world. BRENT SPINER There was a period of time in America where the advertising world actually went to the housewives of... JULIANNE MOORE I have a very open mind. I believe that there's a spirit world. I believe that there's a lot of stuf... ANTHONY HEAD I have a very open mind. I believe that there's a spirit world. I believe that there's a lot of stuf... ANTHONY STEWART HEAD We love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist. BARBARA EHRENREICH We love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist BARBARA EHRENREICH We have a right to life, not on it. DANIEL MELGAçO Our beliefs create the kind of world we believe in. We project our feelings, thoughts and attitudes ... JOHN BRADSHAW I don't want to get into the habit of thinking about my career because when it comes down to it, it'... RIVER PHOENIX We have not come into the world to be numbered; we have been created for a purpose; for great things... MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA I have no misconceptions about my dentist because when I go to my dentist I see what he does... Nobo... BEN KINGSLEY The Tantric sages tell us that our in-breath and out-breath actually mirror the divine creative gest... SALLY KEMPTON If most people were to take a moment to picture in their minds the average, not-for-profit, save-the... NANCY LUBLIN I imagine a child. That child is me. I can reconstruct and vividly remember portions of my own child... DANIEL PINKWATER I would like to think of my own status as what you called 'citizen of the world' or a 'citizen of a ... AZAR NAFISI I actually love history. I've devoured book after book of stories from World War I and World War... CELINE BUCKENS Web is a world for some... wrong, actually we call them spiders. VIJAYRAJ BHATT I want to clear my mind a little bit and give my mind a little bit of time to breathe so I can pinpo... FRED DURST It's not easy. Many, many, many songs have been written about it. We wouldn't have anything to read ... CLAIRE DANES Boston is actually the capital of the world. You didn't know that? We breed smart-ass, quippy, f... JOHN KRASINSKI I want to write, direct, produce, but in steps. I want to take steps. I don't want to just jump ... SNOOP DOGG All I have left is my anger at the foolishness of the world. The unnecessary cruelties, the pomposit... STEPHEN HUNT We love wealth, and we hate poor people. I know people who work in TV news who have actually been to... MATT TAIBBI When the world careens out of control, we can rest in the fact that God spun this world with a simpl... MARY E. DEMUTH I would say my biggest mentor has been my father because he always has been. Actually both of my par... NICOLE RICHIE We in the Philippines know we have to perform our own role in terms of promoting peace in the world.... BENIGNO AQUINO III No manager in the world gets good results all the time and you know there's people always ready ... GLENN HODDLE The reality is the world is a really, really big place, and there's a lot of people running arou... MARC ANDREESEN “If and when the world does not meet your expectations, pick up a pen and paper and create your ow... CARLOS SALINAS The world does not have tidy endings. The world does not have neat connections. It is not filled wit... DENNIS LEHANE I think that I write about stuff that others don't write about. I don't have a bunch of love... BRIE LARSON Music is my entire world since I was a child. Some years ago I began to write down my own ideas and ... DENIZ INAN Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy... JODI PICOULT Actually, 'Wayne's World 2' I kind of liked. I think 'Wayne's World 2' does ... ADAM MCKAY You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world... JAMES BALDWIN What…do I want?” Ruka put his hands to his awful face and closed his golden eyes, shuddering wit... RICHARD NELL Jesus came into the world not to condemn the world, but to save the world. When we come with condemn... TONY CAMPOLO In my job I meet many outstanding, world class, British based companies. But we need more companies ... VINCE CABLE I talked to the Swedish coach before the draw and we agreed we did not want to meet at this World Cu... SVEN GORAN ERIKSSON If you listen to most of my songs, the lyrics are pretty kind of dark, but I like to put it behind h... SHAMIR I have three treasures. Guard and keep them: The first is deep love, The second is frugality,<... LAO-TZU I think I became a writer because I used to write letters to my friends, and I used to love writing ... DAVID NICHOLLS A little light on the RPG elements but heavy on action, 'Mass Effect 2' was the game that cr... ROB MANUEL I do not love; I do not love anybody except myself. That is a rather shocking thing to admit. I have... SYLVIA PLATH When I was a kid, I used to see apparitions and have hallucinations, and my entire perception of the... JIM WOODRING
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DICK And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her prof... PHILIP K. DICK I mean, after all; you have to consider we're only made out of dust. That's admittedly not much to g... PHILIP K. DICK Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving c... PHILIP K. DICK Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willin... PHILIP K. DICK If I'd known it was harmless, I'd have killed it myself! PHILIP K. DICK Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night. PHILIP K. DICK Because her general taste appalled him, it annoyed him that he himself constituted one of her favori... PHILIP K. DICK When you are crazy you learn to keep quiet. PHILIP K. DICK The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the ... PHILIP K. DICK We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by b... PHILIP K. DICK I am basically analytical, not creative; my writing is simply a creative way of handling analysis. PHILIP K. DICK There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it... PHILIP K. DICK Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane. PHILIP K. DICK So we and our elaborately evolving computers may meet each other halfway. Someday a human being, nam... PHILIP K. DICK A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for w... PHILIP K. DICK The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. I you can control the m... PHILIP K. DICK Retrograde time is forward time which has passed the turning point; then as it turns back it is frei... PHILIP K. DICK Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. 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DICK This is a mournful discovery. 1)Those who agree with you are insane 2)Those who do not agr... PHILIP K. DICK If this place were closer to Terra there’d be empty beer cans and plastic plates strewn around. Th... PHILIP K. DICK It’s not just the drive. They’re right out front. Everywhere. Waiting for me. All day and night.... PHILIP K. DICK The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher PHILIP K. DICK I'm not much but I'm all I have. PHILIP K. DICK Their view; it is cosmic. Not of a man here, a child there, but an abstraction: race, land. Volk.... PHILIP K. DICK There exists, for everyone, a sentence - a series of words - that has the power to destroy you. Anot... PHILIP K. DICK But an artist, he realized. Or rather so-called artist. Bohemian. That's closer to it. The artistic ... PHILIP K. DICK We'll fight back, we'll fight back, we'll fight back," a man near Doctor Stockstill was chanting. St... PHILIP K. DICK All his life he had controlled machines, bent nature and the forces of nature to man and man's needs... PHILIP K. DICK From the drawer beside the sink Joe Chip got a stainless steel knife; with it he began systematicall... PHILIP K. DICK Whom the gods notice they destroy. Be small… and you will escape the jealousy of the great. PHILIP K. DICK In the center of an irrational universe governed by an irrational Mind stands rational man. PHILIP K. DICK You're - psychotic. There's something wrong with you." "I know," Benteley agreed. "I'm a ... PHILIP K. DICK There, at her console, he dialed 594: pleased acknowledgement of husband's superior wisdom in all ma... PHILIP K. DICK I can see Richard Wagner standing at the gates of heaven. "You have to let me in," he says. "I wrote... PHILIP K. DICK Fat realized that one of two possibilities existed and only two; either Dr. Stone was totally insane... PHILIP K. DICK It requires the greatest kind of wisdom, she thought, to know when to apply injustice. How can justi... PHILIP K. DICK The real origin of science fiction lay in the seventeenth-century novels of exploration in fabulous ... PHILIP K. DICK Quite an experience to live in fear, isn’t it? That’s what it is to be a slave. PHILIP K. DICK It is—their unconsciousness. Their lack of knowledge about others. Their not being aware of what t... PHILIP K. DICK You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be re... PHILIP K. DICK When I believe, I am crazy. When I don't believe, I suffer psychotic depression. PHILIP K. DICK Once, in a cheap science fiction novel, Fat had come across a perfect description of the Black Iron ... PHILIP K. DICK Exactly what the powers of hell feed on: the best instincts in man. PHILIP K. DICK Matter is plastic in the face of Mind. PHILIP K. DICK They ought to make it a binding clause that if you find God you get to keep Him. PHILIP K. DICK Basically, Sherri's idea had to do with bringing Fat's mind down from the cosmic and the abstract to... PHILIP K. DICK Sometimes I dream--" "I'll put that on your gravestone. PHILIP K. DICK The exegesis Fat labored on month after month struck me as a Pyrrhic victory if there ever was one -... PHILIP K. DICK Men and the world are mutually toxic to each other. PHILIP K. DICK You know what the doctor said to me to cheer me up?" Fat said. "There are worse diseases than cancer... PHILIP K. DICK We hypostatize information into objects. Rearrangement of objects is change in the content of the in... PHILIP K. DICK What he did not know then is that it is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane. PHILIP K. DICK The mentally disturbed do not employ the Principle of Scientific Parsimony: the most simple theory t... PHILIP K. DICK I did not tell Fat this, but technically he had become a Buddha. It did not seem to me like a good i... PHILIP K. DICK Each of us assumes everyone else knows what HE is doing. They all assume we know what WE are doing. ... PHILIP K. DICK It is amazing that when someone else spouts the nonsense you yourself believe you can readily percei... PHILIP K. DICK Everybody knows that Aristotelian two-value logic is fucked. PHILIP K. DICK Fish cannot carry guns. PHILIP K. DICK The distinction between sanity and insanity is narrower than a razor’s edge, sharper than a hound�... PHILIP K. DICK Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy... fear makes you always, always hold somethin... PHILIP K. DICK There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive. PHILIP K. DICK It has been said of dreams that they are a 'controlled psychosis,' or, put another way, a psychosis ... PHILIP K. DICK Eierkopf. Egghead. Because the big double-domed empty heads break so easily . . . in the street braw... PHILIP K. DICK No single thing abides; and all things are fucked up. PHILIP K. DICK Well, I hate to admit it, but it is possible that there is (one) such a thing as telepathy and (two)... PHILIP K. DICK I could see why she felt attracted to Sam K. Barrows. Birds of a feather, or rather lizards of a sca... PHILIP K. DICK Empathy, evidently, existed only within the human community, whereas intelligence to some degree cou... PHILIP K. DICK Maybe it's you fuckers," Fred said, "who're seeing the universe backward, like in a mirror. Maybe I ... PHILIP K. DICK Maybe I shouldn’t have told you––about it being electrical.” She put her hand out, touched h... PHILIP K. DICK It's easy to win. Anybody can win. PHILIP K. DICK Ruth said, "Love isn't just wanting another person the way you want to own an object you see in a st... PHILIP K. DICK Consciousness of unconsciousness PHILIP K. DICK He felt the pressure of her love as she squeezed his fingers, and then there was nothing. Except the... PHILIP K. DICK Ruth said, "Love isn't just wanting another person the way you want to own an object you see in a st... PHILIP K. DICK Why does a man cry? he wondered. Not like a woman; not for that. Not for sentiment. A man cries over... PHILIP K. DICK Grief causes you to leave yourself. You step outside your narrow little pelt. And you can’t feel g... PHILIP K. DICK Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy. If you’re afraid you don’t commit yoursel... PHILIP K. DICK Why is love so good...? You love someone and they leave. They come home one day and you say "What's ... PHILIP K. DICK It's amazing the limitation of the human anatomy, the fact that food and air must share a common pas... PHILIP K. DICK In this particular lifestyle the motto is “Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying,” but the... PHILIP K. DICK How'd you like to gaze at a beer can throughout eternity? It might not be so bad. There'd be nothing... PHILIP K. DICK The tragedy in his life already existed. To love an atmospheric spirit. That was the real sorrow. Ho... PHILIP K. DICK The bird is gone, and in what meadow does it now sing? PHILIP K. DICK They know a million tricks, those novelists. Take Doctor Goebbels; that's how he started out, writin... PHILIP K. DICK You're an unusual person," she said. "Bill didn't like you, but he never likes anything d... PHILIP K. DICK Everything in life is just for a while. PHILIP K. DICK The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the ... PHILIP K. DICK My schedule for today lists a six-hour self-accusatory depression. PHILIP K. DICK The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this freak establishment. ... PHILIP K. DICK We're all dreaming,” Arctor said. If the last to know he's an addict is the addict, then maybe the... PHILIP K. DICK Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally. PHILIP K. DICK The universe is information and we are stationary in it, not three dimensional and not in space or t... PHILIP K. DICK I use this as a paradigm for our whole attitude toward life, what you did was you worked very hard, ... PHILIP K. DICK You know what I think? I think you've picked up the Nazi idea that Jews can't create. That they can ... PHILIP K. DICK The old man said, ‘You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condit... PHILIP K. DICK No one can win against kipple," he said, "except temporarily and maybe in one spot, like in my apart... PHILIP K. DICK Everything is true," he said. "Everything anybody has ever thought. PHILIP K. DICK Maybe there was once a human who looked like you, and somewhere along the line you killed him and to... PHILIP K. DICK But then I realized how unhealthy it was, sensing the absence of life, not just in this building but... PHILIP K. DICK Do you have information that there's an android in the cast? I'd be glad to help you, and if I were ... PHILIP K. DICK Upon him the contempt of three planets descended. PHILIP K. DICK Future and past blurred; what he had already experienced and what he would eventually experience ble... PHILIP K. DICK Silence. It flashed from the woodwork and the walls; it smote him with an awful, total power, as if ... PHILIP K. DICK I don't judge, not even myself. PHILIP K. DICK I love you,' Rachael said. 'If I entered a room and found a sofa covered with your hide I'd score ve... PHILIP K. DICK I'd like to see you move up to the goat class, where I think you belong. PHILIP K. DICK The painting showed a hairless, oppressed creature with a head like an inverted pear, its hands clap... PHILIP K. DICK Mors certa, vita incerta, PHILIP K. DICK Everything is true,' he said. 'Everything anybody has ever thought.' 'Will you be all rig... PHILIP K. DICK Emigrate or Degenerate. PHILIP K. DICK At that moment, when I had the TV sound off, I was in a 382 mood; I had just dialed it. So although ... PHILIP K. DICK It's the basic condition of life to be required to violate our own identity. PHILIP K. DICK Empathy, he once had decided, must be limited to herbivores or anyhow omnivores who could depart fro... PHILIP K. DICK Maybe I'll go where I can see stars, he said to himself as the car gained velocity and altitude; it ... PHILIP K. DICK You have to be with other people, he thought. In order to live at all. I mean before they came here ... PHILIP K. DICK I like her; I could watch her the rest of my life. She has breasts that smile. PHILIP K. DICK You mean old books?" "Stories written before space travel but about space travel." <... PHILIP K. DICK I never felt like that before. Maybe it could be depression, like you get. I can understand how you ... PHILIP K. DICK They see through the here, the now, into the vast black deep beyond, the unchanging. And that is fat... PHILIP K. DICK We are all insects. Groping towards something terrible or divine. PHILIP K. DICK I used to condemn junkies, like they could get off the stuff if they really wanted to, and that is j... PHILIP K. DICK What was on the other side?" Donna said, "He said there was another world on the other side. He... PHILIP K. DICK Dilemma of civilized man; body mobilized, but danger obscure. PHILIP K. DICK On some other world, possibly it is different. Better. There are clear good and evil alternatives. N... PHILIP K. DICK Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally. Wakin... PHILIP K. DICK Sidney's never makes a mistake, he said to himself. We know that, too. What else can we depend on? PHILIP K. DICK Ubik ... Safe when taken as directed. PHILIP K. DICK Era come se avessi tremato per tutta la vita, a causa di una cronica corrente sotterranea di paura. ... PHILIP K. DICK If practicality and morality are polarized and you must choose, you must do what you think is right,... PHILIP K. DICK A human being without the proper empathy or feeling is the same as an android built so as to lack it... PHILIP K. DICK Even if all life on our planet is destroyed, there must be other life somewhere which we know nothin... PHILIP K. DICK The most dangerous kind of person... is one who is afraid of his own shadow. PHILIP K. DICK We're blind moles. Creeping through the soil, feeling with our snoots. We know nothing. I perceived ... PHILIP K. DICK They want to be the agents, not the victims, of history. They identify with God's power and believe ... PHILIP K. DICK Uniformity in the common law, consisting of broad principles like the "reasonable person" standard, ... PHILIP K. HOWARD A true friend sticks with you through thick and thin no matter what. K All the mysteries of the universe are solved within the Imagination. K. FORD K. Elegance is all in the mind of the wearer. PHILIP TREACY Hats make people feel good, and that's the point of them. PHILIP TREACY I don't like department stores. I had a chain of department stores back in 1994 which was Lewis&... PHILIP GREEN I'm in the retail business, not the circus business. PHILIP GREEN You are forced to have the best data capture, the best information, when you have goods in hundreds ... PHILIP GREEN I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I... PHILIP GREEN You've got to love what you do to really make things happen. PHILIP GREEN They already know all about brands... but what 16- and 17-year-olds won't necessarily have is ex... PHILIP GREEN We're in a celebrity culture, and when I turn on the news today I hear about Lindsay Lohan, Tige... PHILIP YANCEY Either I will find a way, or I will make one. PHILIP SIDNEY I am brave, but I take a view. It is an educated view. I am careful. I am not reckless. PHILIP GREEN Royalty is completely different than celebrity. Royalty has a magic all its own. PHILIP TREACY Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise. PHILIP MASSINGER My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a v... PHILIP ZIMBARDO Bullies are often people who are shy and can't make friends easily, so, as the theme of the movi... PHILIP ZIMBARDO Undermining experience, embellishing experience, rearranging and enlarging experience into a species... PHILIP ROTH Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion PHILIP WYLIE All this, and Heaven too! PHILIP HENRY Bullies may be the perpetrators of evil, but it is the evil of passivity of all those who know what ... PHILIP ZIMBARDO It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is mos... PHILIP SIDNEY Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in y... PHILIP PULLMAN The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong. PHILIP EMEAGWALI Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim ... PHILIP CROSBY The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the w... PHILIP CALDWELL Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't ... PHILIP LARKIN Nor custom, nor example, nor cast numbers
Of such as do offend, make less the sin. PHILIP MASSINGER I got a good heart but my attitude gat people thinking I'm evil GENEREUX PHILIP A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an arm... PHILIP ROTH A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy un... PHILIP ROTH Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the bru... PHILIP LARKIN Being a practiced liar doesn't mean you have a powerful imagination. Many good liars have no imagina... PHILIP PULLMAN After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely p... PHILIP STREIFER I don't believe in it. All writing is difficult. The most you can hope for is a day when it goes rea... PHILIP PULLMAN