Top 263 Philip Quotes & Sayings

I, Philip Kearny, an old soldier, enter my solemn protest against this order for retreat.

It's unthinkable not to love - you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Do you know why I married you, Philip?" "Presumably you wanted the financial security and social prestige I could offer." She chuckled at that and shook her head..."I believed," she confessed somberly, "I honestly believed that I had something to offer you too--something you needed. Do you know what it was?" "I can't imagine." "I thought I could teach you how to laugh and enjoy life." Philip and Caroline

Aristotle dines when it seems good to King Philip, but Diogenes when he himself pleases.

I've always liked authors such as Philip K. Dick and Ray Bradbury.

I do like Philip Pullman.And that's an exception because Philip Pullman's books allow magic.

A lot of deaths feel sad. Philip Seymour Hoffman's feels like a robbery.

To be very fair, it was Ian Marsh and Martyn Ware who started The Human League. They brought Philip Oakey in to sing, primarily because Philip was very tall. So it started out as their vision. I don't think anyone ever thought it would be as big as it became. Music evolves and people were looking for something different. We came out at the right time and were just very lucky.

I'm very grateful to all the people of Fresno, to Philip Levine and all the poets before me, and all the farmworkers. I didn't get here by myself.

My father Philip was an actor and appeared in everything from 'The Onedin Line' to 'Hedda Gabler' with Dame Diana Rigg.

Philip says to fear me. Do you have any idea how afraid I am of him?

To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth. Ivory is the soap that floats; Rice Krispies the breakfast cereal that goes snap-crackle-pop; Philip Roth the Jew who masturbates with a piece of liver.

Among the disciples of Jesus, it seems most likely that at least Philip was bilingual in Aramaic and Greek.

I think it's really difficult for a young team to beat an experienced quarterback like Philip Rivers twice in one season.

He was seized and dragged off to King Philip, and being asked who he was, replied, "A spy upon your insatiable greed."

Reality, by itself, becomes a story by Philip K. Dick.

Why did you look at the sunset?' Philip answered with his mouth full: Because I was happy.

Philip Martin has written a wise, compassionate, and nurturing guide through the self-oppression of depression.

Throughout his work, Philip Levine's most powerful commitment has been to the failed and lost, the marginal, the unloved, the unwanted.

I was obsessed with Philip K. Dick.

Philip Sharpe was a soldier in God's army," says the minister. "Now he marches with the angels.

I always wanted to be an actor, but my top three favorite actors of all time are Al Pacino, James Dean and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

One of the advantages of having gone to Penn State was having had a scholar for a mentor - Philip Young. Also, a professional writer named Philip Klass taught there. He was a science fiction writer whose pseudonym was William Tenn. As a professional writer, he brought wisdom to teaching because he'd done it for a living.

Empire may be gained by gold, not gold by empire. It used, indeed, to be a proverb that "It is not Philip, but Philip's gold that takes the cities of Greece.

So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb.

Philip's story is the most interesting in the royal family - his background is the opposite of what you'd think. Everyone has this idea that Philip is this bumbling, deliberately posh sort of man who says the wrong thing.

Prince Philip prides himself on being a realist. He knows he is not going to live for ever.

Prince Philip is very contrary. He challenges everything.

Philip Rivers, I think he's pretty good.

A friend of mine gave me a Philip Glass record. I listened to it for five hours before I realized it had a scratch on it.

Philip Seymour Hoffman - I just think he's incredible.

To me Prince Philip was a hero and a role model - and a friend.

The only good Philip K. Dick film is 'Total Recall.' It's faithful to the book. Arnie gets it.

As an actor, I really like Philip Seymour Hoffman. I think he's a genius.

I like Philip Roth, John Updike, and Richard Yates.

A room containing Philip Roth, I have noticed, begins hilariously to whirl and pulse with a mix of rebelliousness and constriction that I take to be Oedipal.

Wild Turkey whiskey and Philip Morris cigarettes are essential to the maintenance of human life!

Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.

Race pride, socialist ideals, and a sincerity as exalted as that of Carlyle's visionaries coalesced in Asa Philip Randolph.

It was really great to be part of the Philip Roth story as a woman in a very complete way.

I told Prince Philip that, having met them both, I was struck, not by the differences between him and Charles, but by their similarities.

I like to try to change things up a bit in the way that actors such as Philip Seymour Hoffman or Michael Fassbender did and do.

I've got a better background than anyone else who married into the royal family since the war, excepting Prince Philip.

Philip Oakey went to Target this morning to have a wander 'round and a guy ran up to him and said, "I went to see you last night and you were fabulous!" It made Philip's day! Whoever says it to us, we're always happy.

On the way out to the car, Philip turns to me. “How could you be so stupid? I shrug, stung in spite of myself. “I thought I grew out of it.” Philip pulls out his key fob and presses the remote to unlock his Mercedes. I slide into the passenger side, brushing coffee cups off the seat and onto the floor mat, where crumpled printouts from MapQuest soak up any spilled liquid. “I hope you mean sleepwalking,” Philip says, “since you obviously didn’t grow out of stupid.

I try to make Play Cloths really representative of me and my designers they look at my evolution as an artist and in fashion and they [zero] in to different details. I come into the office some days and they're like, 'What are those?" [I say,] "[These] are Philip Lim...[I'll] have on Philip Lim sweats and they go and put their spin on it.

Philip Roth is a good writer, but I wouldn't want to shake hands with him.

Philip Roth has been a huge influence on me. The early books I read in my teens and twenties.

There are two trilogies I admire: Robertson Davies's 'The Deptford Trilogy' and Philip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials.'

I'm a huge fan of Philip K. Dick.

There are some novelists who can get away with writing about sex - Philip Roth, Ian McEwan - but they are rare.

My focus is to grow, have fun, and work with people who inspire me, like Philip Seymour Hoffman.

In many ways, Prince Philip was remarkably good-humored and long-suffering.

Prince Philip is conscious of his place in the heritage of the Royal Family.

Like so many of us, I'm brokenhearted about the death of the remarkably talented actor Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Of all Prince Philip's respected biographers, only Sarah Bradford is adamant that Philip has had affairs.

The quantum death of Philip Seymour Hoffman. 24 hours before he was "officially" declared dead it was announced on the internet that he had already died. Many people were shocked to hear of his "official" death, especially those who had believed he was already dead. Philip Seymour Hoffman was both dead and alive in the minds of millions simultaneously. A rare death for a rare actor.

I didn't speak English until I was ten, when Philip Burton, the schoolmaster who became my guardian, took me under his wing.

Prince Philip protected the Queen and made her laugh.

She [Mary I] married Philip King of Spain, who in her sister's reign, was famous for building Armadas.