Phil Keaggy Quotes

#1. If you're suddenly doing something you don't want to do for four years, just so you've got something to fall back on, by the time you come out you don't have that 16-year-old drive any more and you'll spend your life doing something you never wanted to do in the first place.

Ewan McGregor

#2. I talk of love, a scholar's parrot may talk greek, but, self-imprisoned, always end where I begin.

Phil Keaggy

#3. Are you introducing young children to the occult? said Madam Frout suspiciously. This sort of thing caused a lot of trouble with parents, she was well aware.

Terry Pratchett

#4. If you can have a couple of tight friends that you can tell things to, that you can say, 'Hey, this is what I'm struggling with,' and then pray and talk about it, then that's an incredible thing.

Jon Foreman

#5. Madhouses are houses made on purpose to cause suffering ... I cannot stand any longer the screams of these creatures.

Camille Claudel

#6. I'm here, I said, but I knew, increasingly, I wasn't here, and I felt that able-to-weep-and-be-seen version of myself that I'd been with Ruth hardening again, like warm caramel left to cool.

Catherine Lacey

#7. I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn't matter.

Adam Rapp

#8. I know Eric Engerbretson to be a man of integrity who is firmly committed to the artful balance of music and ministry.

Phil Keaggy

#9. Reading texts is no substitute for meditation and practicing Zen. If you read a book about a place, and you want to go there, you don't keep reading the book. You have to travel. That's what practice is about. Traveling. Walking the path.

Bill Porter

#10. The BAFTAs give the British point of view, and the Oscars give the American point of view, but the truth is we're all working in an international industry.

Ian McKellen

#11. Nature is only another chimera.

Julien Torma

#12. What's the point of being a magician if you can't wave your wand and make the people you care about feel better?

Rick Riordan

#13. Disasters are funny to me. As a comedian you learn from failure, so I'm always trying to put myself in a situation that does not seem ideal for my comedy and see how it works.

Anthony Jeselnik

#14. Meditation may also be thought of as a technique by which we diminish the force of old thought habits and develop new ones.

Dalai Lama

#15. I passed that day in pleasure, which is to say, in the sort of work I wanted to do rather than the work that I thought I ought to be doing.

Robin Hobb