Top 639 Billy Pilgrim Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Next to the Bible, the book I value most is John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. I believe I have read it through at least a hundred times. It is a volume of which I never seem to tire; and the secret of its freshness is that it is so largely compiled from the Scriptures.

The whole film business was built on immigrants: Billy Wilder and Michael Curtiz and all these hefty lads.

For me, '52nd Street' is quintessential Billy Joel. I bought that record as a kid and listened to it so much.

'Billy Elliot' embodies the idea that anyone can achieve anything regardless of their socio-economic background.

I am back in Los Angeles after a very successful run in Chicago as Billy Flynn.

One of my favourite movies is Billy Wilder's 'The Apartment.' It's shot in super wide screen, and it's beautiful.

Our pop cultural likes and dislikes are still very segregated, and that is not true of 'Billy on the Street.'

For me, people in Ireland who became actors would have to go through the Billy Barry's in Dublin.

I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy.

Elton John and Billy Joel, I find them both to be huge inspirations, those guys are so talented.

If there's anyone in my lifetime who deserves honor it is Billy Graham. I think he is the most significant figure since the apostles.

Montana was naked, and so was Billy, of course. He had a tremendous wang, incidentally. You never know who'll get one.

I went through a Billy Idol phase. I had white hair when Peter Rizzo hired me at Barneys.

I've been to London twice. I saw the Broadway show 'Billy Elliot' there - phenomenal. I was crying through the entire thing.

Growing up on Long Island, I think Billy Joel albums come with your driver's license.

Nobody wanted to run back kicks until you saw Billy 'White Shoes'' Johnson.

There is a ceiling to it and there's a stigma. Billy Crystal as brilliant as he is, he's never going to be thought of as a contemporary like Alan Arkin.

I'm a student of comedy in general, so I've always loved Billy Crystal. But I'm a different type of showman. I'm a clown and a jester.

I was on vacation in New York when my agent called asking if I wanted to go right in and audition for 'Billy Elliot,' so I was lucky to be there.

If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination.

President Bush was widely ridiculed for consulting the Reverend Billy Graham before the Gulf war.

The weakness of so many modern Christians is that they feel to much at home in the world. In their effort to achieve restful 'adjustment' to unregenerate society they have lost their pilgrim character and become an essential part of the very moral order against which they are sent to protest.

The libertarian thinks that this world is chiefly a stage for the swaggering ego; the conservative finds himself instead a pilgrim in a realm of mystery and wonder, where duty, discipline, and sacrifice are required-and where the reward is that love which passeth all understanding.

It certainly is the duty of every true Christian, to esteem himself a stranger and pilgrim in this world; and as bound to use earthly blessings, not as means of satisfying lust or gratifying wantonness, but of supplying his absolute wants and necessities.

It seems to be expected of every pilgrim up the slopes of the mathematical Parnassus, that he will at some point or other of his journey sit down and invent a definite integral or two towards the increase of the common stock.

I like old tunes when I'm driving. They're fun and uplifting. Billy Ocean, that kind of thing.

From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. Pleased with the 'Pilgrim's Progress,' my first collection was of John Bunyan's works in separate little volumes.

As far as directors, I'm a big fan of any kind of Billy Wilder stuff. Anything he does.

I listen to Billy Joel. He is fabulous. I saw him with Elton John when they toured together, it was so great.

Tony Williams, Billy Cobham and Lenny White; some of those guys were big influences on me.

The three people I've always wanted to meet are Stephen Fry, Billy Connolly and Steven Gerrard.

Society would be better off if Billy Eichner started getting more dramatic work.

I happen to be a guy who also plays the piano and sings, so people automatically associate me with Billy Joel.

Playing for Billy Martin is like being married to him. Right now, we're all sleeping on the couch.

The 'Billy On The Street' persona is truly inspired by who I was as a child - obviously not having an adult perspective on the world.

I'm influenced by those '40s, '50s, and '60s films: things like 'The Apartment' - I was a big fan of Billy Wilder.

And what is the problem? It is the old problem of the anxious searcher - the mythic in the interior castle, the poet-pilgrim in a dark wood not sure how to proceed. Which way is the right way?

Billy (Martin) was a great one for jokes. He liked to play a joke more than anyone I ever knew.

Terry Funk. Any time I got to wrestle with him, it was cool. Superstar Billy Graham was another one.

I think this whole Billy Bush thing just pushed women over the edge because it's so visceral.

I'm a huge fan of Billy Idol. I spiked my hair every day like him in 7th and 8th grade.

In a way, 'Billy Elliot' was autobiographical. I can't dance, but I think his dancing was me discovering about writing and literature.

3 years ago I was stocking shelves at Target, living on Ramen noodles, and crashing at Billy's house. Now I'm on tour

Many of the stranger but most frequently quoted scenes in 'Billy Madison' were unplanned.

I am not a politician or a public servant. I am still a journeyman actor and a peace and justice activist. I'm a pilgrim trying to win my freedom and serve as best I can in the time I have, with this gift I've been given.

If done correctly, these techniques can allow the Bobo pilgrim to have 6 unforgettable moments a morning, 2 rapturous experiences over lunch, 1,5 profound insights in the afternoon (on average), and .667 life-altering epiphanies after each sunset.

My favorites growing up were always Billy Joel, Michael Jackson... and Placido Domingo.

The early Billy Joel stuff I fell in love with, like Glass Houses, is a real rock record.

The Pilgrim and the Puritan whom we honor tonight were men who did a great deal of work in the world. They had their faults and their - shortcomings, but they were not slothful in business and they were most fervent in spirit.

Watching Billy Connolly at the Hammersmith Apollo in the late 90s was a masterclass of long-form comedy.

You will have no test of faith that will not fit you to be a blessing if you are obedient to the Lord. I never had a trial but when I got out of the deep river I found some poor pilgrim on the bank that I was able to help by that very experience.

Billy [Corgan] and I used to spend quite a lot of time together in Los Angeles, when I first moved there.

If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination

Lots of people look up to Billy Martin. That's because he just knocked them down.

Truth should be the very breath of our life. When once this state in the pilgrim's progress is reached, all other rules of correct living will come without any effort, and obedience to them will be instinctive.

I figured that I'm going to bring my own version of Billy Flynn and do my very best with it and let it go.

My older brother Billy was really into video games, and of course I followed suit. I was such a dork - I was so geeky!

A spiritual pilgrim needs to discern when his or her life is stunted in an old field and find the courage and determination to go to a "new land" that the Lord will show. (Abraham-Journey) ...so that you can find the wholeness you seek.

All of those faeries and duels and mad queens and so on, and no one quoted old Billy Shakespeare. Not even once.

My trainer, Marty Jones, was trained by Billy Robinson, so was Johnny Saint and a lot of great British wrestlers.