Whitmill Phillips Quotes & Sayings

Most would only ever guess at who and what was most precious to them-up until the day of loss: then they'd know-and most would also have to guess at why and how, or what might have been. They could never truly know, not as one who'd lived both paths, seen two lives. That crazed noise was his own laughter. — Kai Ashante Wilson

You are a spirit, bearing the weight of a dead body, as Epictetus used to say. — Marcus Aurelius

Most damning of phrases: He meant well. — Laurie R. King

To my generation no other English poet seemed so perfectly to express the sensibility of a male adolescent. If I do not now turn to him very often, I am eternally grateful to him for the joy he gave me in my youth. — W. H. Auden

In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tail is wagging the dog. We've got to make a change there and get it back to where the teachers have control of the classrooms. — Chuck Norris

Radio listeners are voyeurs: lurking, invisible, eavesdropping. — Paul Fleischman

Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life. — Russell Baker

It is hard to put a price on some things. What is the value of having prevented nuclear weapons from getting into the hands of a dictator like Saddam Hussein - or of Gadhafi ? — Donald Rumsfeld