Phone Directory Quotes & Sayings

The lie is a weak wepon you attack and pucn and kick the damage is weak. But the truth makes headshot, there is such people just by telling the truth you can devastate them! — Deyth Banger

I'm trying to find these rare moments where you feel completely illuminated. Facts never illuminate you. The phone directory of Manhattan doesn't illuminate you, although it has factually correct entries, millions of them. But these rare moments of illumination that you find when you read a great poem, you instantly know. You instantly feel this spark of illumination. You are almost stepping outside of yourself and you see something sublime. — Werner Herzog

If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck. — John Steinbeck

I wanted a name that would put us first in the phone directory, or second if you count ABBA. — Martin Fry

The most dangerous tendency of the modern world is the way in which bogus theories are given the force of dogma. — Jean Danielou

Lionel Richie, love song, OK, thank you very much, good-bye. And all of a sudden I realized that, in my career, what has made my career has always been the surprises. — Lionel Richie

If I had a comfort blanket, I wouldn't have been as passionate and driven. — Rob James-Collier

If you do not learn English in this country, you cannot get anywhere. We are in America. We are not in Mexico, we are not in China, we are not in Saudi Arabia - we speak English in this country! And what bilingual education does, is keep them from learning English, so they are doomed to be second-class citizens. — Rafael Cruz

If country life be healthful to the body, it is no less so to the mind. — Giovanni Ruffini

Covering the civil-rights movement was a mind- and eye-opener for me. Houston was a segregated society, as was Texas as a whole - some of it by law, a lot of it by fear and tradition. But there was no violence where I lived, and if there was hate, it was either concealed from me or I just didn't recognize it. — Dan Rather

God doesn't want something from us. He simply wants us. — C.S. Lewis

I'm not a very brave person. — Claire Denis

Telephone books are, like dictionaries, already out of date the moment they are printed.... — Ammon Shea

Twenty minutes later, a new message came in, this one from Sydney herself: Back in human form. Everything seems to be normal. Everything? I questioned. Well, aside from a weird urge to chase laser pointers, she responded. If that's the worst effect, I'll take it. Keep me posted. I love you. — Richelle Mead

If you're purely after facts, please buy yourself the phone directory of Manhattan. It has four million times correct facts. But it doesn't illuminate. — Werner Herzog

The flagrantly gay Quentin Crisp dealt with homophobic bullying by refusing to bow to its onslaught. His number listed in the phone directory, he responded to derogatory remarks accompanied with a stated intent to kill him by asking, "Would you like to make an appointment?" — Quentin Crisp

Well, I was obsessed with Judy Garland growing up. Like, obsessed. — Aubrey Plaza

But not so odd a name, after all, if you've ever read through the phone directory, with its Hyman Diddlebockers and Sasparilla Greenleafs. I read through the phone book once, never mind when, and it satisfied a deep need in me to realize how many people aren't called Smith. — Sylvia Plath

Wisdom, then, is how to live in God's world in God's way, — Tremper Longman III