Phil Bucklew Quotes & Sayings

We can't bankrupt Exxon. But we can politically and morally bankrupt them. — Bill McKibben

Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity. — Hosea Ballou

Men are slower to recognise blessings than misfortunes. — Livy

I'm one of the first invention capitalists. — Nathan Myhrvold

Reason must sit at the knee of instinct and learn reverence for the miraculous instinctual capacity for creation. — Jonathan Schell

Travel by canoe is not a necessity, and will nevermore be the most efficient way to get from one region to another, or even from one lake to another anywhere. A canoe trip has become simply a rite of oneness with certain terrain, a diversion off the field, an art performed not because it is a necessity but because there is value in the art itself. — John McPhee

There are many actors who'll make their living in other areas, and they'll say they don't like theatre. What they're saying is that they're afraid of theatre because they know it will separate those who can from those who can't. — Ken Stott

Be what it may, I will always esteem and adore the divine genius of this Gentleman, taking from him what I understand with humility and admiring with veneration what I am unable to understand. — Lope De Vega

God is good for everybody. The sun shines on good people and bad people, and it rains on both, too. God doesn't choose rain only for bad people. — Mariano Rivera

I got into theater at an early age. — Kevin Daniels

They weren't wearing their handy-dandy I'm an Evil Demon T-shirts; nevertheless, I could tell they were coming for me. — Julie Kenner

I think Steve King is absolutely wrong and I just hope that we can try to reach higher ground, because when you are spewing this kind of nonsense, things that Donald Trump says, Ben Carson says, but also [Marco] Rubio and [Ted] Cruz and even Jeb Bush have said. — Steve King

Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books. — Barry Eisler