Philomel Quotes

#1. By weaker accents, what's your praise
When Philomel her voice doth raise?

Henry Wotton

#2. One may explain water, but the mouth will not become wet. One may expound fully on the nature of fire, but the mouth will not become hot.

Takuan Soho

#3. What record companies do these days is drain the blood dry of an album, take six singles off it, and harm the longevity of artists' careers by doing it.

Elton John

#4. I rarely joke unless I'm in front of a camera. It's not what I am in real life. It's what I do for a living.

Christopher Guest

#5. It's not doing what is right that's hard for a President. It's knowing what is right.

Lyndon Johnson

#6. The schizophrenic is drowning in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight. Edgar Cayce made the same observation in his readings

Joseph Campbell

#7. No, it's not that they're bad. It's that they're obliged to pretend they're good. They've been brought up to deceive and be cunning, to protect themselves from our society. I don't want to be like that.

Carlos Fuentes

#8. If you ask why I do what I do - I want to make a difference. I don't just want to maintain the status quo. I want to help people, to work with institutions or create ones when they don't exist.

Eli Broad

#9. I can't get around this dilemma: I have a horror of troubles, but they whip me up, they make me talented. Peace and well-being, on the contrary, paralyze me. Either be a nobody, or everlastingly plagued.

Jules Renard

#10. Thin veneers can cover a mountain of problems around here when nobody's looking at the details.

Carol Plum-Ucci