Phoenish Quotes & Sayings

I'm saying she looks fine on the outside, but inside is somebody who's going to need a man a lot more than he's going to need her. — Tom McNeal

Design is really an act of communication, which means having a deep understanding of the person with whom the designer is communicating. — Donald A. Norman

I am afraid if there is anything to be afraid of. A precipice cannot hurt you. Lions and tigers can. The streets of New York I consider more dangerous than the Matterhorn to a thoroughly competent and careful climber. — Annie Smith Peck

At some point my need for a solution was replaced by the poetry of my continuous failure. — Charles Simic

It took a village to raise a child, and it took a rainbow of colors to make them feel at home and comfortable. — T.A. Webb

Phall if you but will, rise you must: and none so soon either shall the pahrce for the nunce come to a setdown secular phoenish. — James Joyce

The thing I do best is laugh. — Cathy Freeman

Starting small is the beginning of it all. — Rumont TeKay

Scratch an artist and you surprise a child. — James Huneker

For in the absence of debate unrestricted utterance leads to the degradation of opinion. By a kind of Greshams law the more rational is overcome by the less rational, and the opinions that will prevail will be those which are held most ardently by those with the most passionate will. For that reason the freedom to speak can never be maintained merely by objecting to interference with the liberty of the press, of printing, of broadcasting, of the screen. It can be maintained only by promoting debate. — Walter Lippmann

In the light, we find the light of life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

In science, however, "God did it" is not a testable hypothesis. Inquiring minds want to know how God did it and what forces or mechanisms were at work. "God works in mysterious ways" will not pass peer review. Even such explanations as "belief in God" or "religiosity" must be broken down into their component parts to find possible causal mechanisms for the links between belief and behavior that lead to health, well-being, and longevity. — Michael Shermer

By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around. — Barry Sonnenfeld