Phatos Quotes & Sayings

I have about a dozen cassettes lying about which I use in random order. Very often, I pick up a cassette to dictate a letter, and I find my voice coming back at me with the lines of plays three years old. — Tom Stoppard

The only way to neutralize the effect of public journals is to multiply them indefinitely. — Alexis De Tocqueville

I would say you have the perfect smile. Perfect for the friendly face of death. — Giacomo Lee

I am grateful for all the military families that I've met. I wanted to spread hope and cheer to all; little did I know that they would be the ones to change my life the way they have! — Wynonna Judd

I feel ghostly unreal until I become somebody else again on the screen. — Peter Sellers

A form of government that is not the result of a long sequence of shared experiences, efforts, and endeavors can never take root. — Napoleon Bonaparte

I just feel out of this world sometimes. — Lil' Wayne

What goes around may come around, but it never ends up exactly the same place, you ever notice? Like a record on a turntable, all it takes is one groove's difference and the universe can be on into a whole 'nother song. — Thomas Pynchon

Never starve a werewolf, or he might ask you to join him for lunch. — Patricia Briggs

I have a thing about losers. Flaws in oneself open you up to others with flaws. Not that Dostoyevsky's characters don't generate phatos, but they're flawed in ways that don't come across as faults. And while I'm on the subject, Tolstoy's characters' faults are so epic and out of scale, they're as static as backdrops. — Haruki Murakami

People have many cruel expectations from writers. People expect novelists to live on a hill with three kids and a spouse, people expect children's story writers to never have sex, and people expect all great poets to be dead. And these are all very difficult expectations to fulfill, I think. — C. JoyBell C.