Philippoteaux Quotes & Sayings

If I displayed this cup, I might look at it once or twice a week. By using it, I get pleasure from it continually. — Lila Acheson Wallace

Be a smart learner. Learn from your mistakes and adjust your behavior accordingly. — Ehab Atalla

Generosity is not a free pass for people to take advantage of us, treat us unfairly, or be purposefully disrespectful and mean. — Brene Brown

I just saw the emotion in everything, so I got to feel everything that was going on and that I was viewing, but I couldn't think in terms of structure, which is the whole point of deep focus. — Gil Kane

That's what happens when people reach old age; nobody remembers they've been bastards too. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Being on TV sucks. It's a lot of work. You memorize scripts and then you show up and they change everything. I'm a control freak. When I'm doing stand-up, I say what I want and then I get instant feedback. — Gabriel Iglesias

This minute that comes
to me over the past
Decillions.
There is no better than it
And now. What behaves well
In the past or behaves well
To-day is not such a wonder.
The wonder is always and
Always how there can be
A mean man or an infidel. — Walt Whitman

Before newborns open their eyes, we circle them, appearing as brilliant colors, and when they clench their tiny hands for the first time, they are actually grabbing the colors they find most appealing. — Mitch Albom

...It is the one time Dante calls such explicit attention to the idea of contrapasso-a word for which we have no exact translation, no precise definition in English, because the word in itself is its definition... Well, my dear Longfellow, I would say countersuffering ... the notion that each sinner must be punished by continuing the damage of his own sin against him... just as these Schismatics are cut apart... — Matthew Pearl

Finely dropped her head, squeezed her eyes shut and began silently to do what some might call praying, she called it begging. — Kady Cross

I'll be back 'round again, yes, I'll walk in time with you, old friend. And we'll find that place that we had danced in so long ago. — Dave Matthews

In God's school we learn through the heart rather than through the head, and by faith rather than logic. — Samuel Logan Brengle