Phyllida's Quotes

#1. Phyllida's hair was where her power resided. It was expensively set into a smooth dome, like a band shell for the presentation of that long-running act, her face.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#2. The ladies of St. James's! They're painted to the eyes; Their white is stays for ever, Their red it never dies; But Phyllida, my Phillida! Her colour comes and goes; It trembles to a lily,
It wavers to a rose.

Henry Austin Dobson

#3. Playing to bigger audiences at festivals got me in the mindset of writing music that I would sing to a crowd.

Caroline Polachek

#4. I just realized that we're facing here is an empathy gap. And this was just another way to generate conversation about something that nobody wanted to look at.

Teju Cole

#5. The lack of closeness among friends is a fault that cannot be reprimanded without becoming incurable.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#6. the Cameron Highlanders were ordered to muddy their spats because they were a dazzling white target for the Hun. Within 24 hours the order was countermanded by the Big Chief Cameron of Lochiel who presumably didn't want his Highlanders to look slovenly when dead.

Phyllida Law

#7. If you've got kids who aren't being looked after by their parents, there's only so many times you can try and intervene to get that right.

Adam Giles

#8. I once worked with Emma Thompson's mother, Phyllida Law. I worked with her on a BBC drama, and she was hilarious. I loved her so much, and she was great to work with.

Thomas Sangster

#9. In the US everybody is about what's new and what's next and they don't really build a real loyalty as much as in Europe - if you were ever good and they liked you, they will treat it with the respect that it still matters.

Rob Zombie

#10. I crack the other egg.
Surely we have diminished one another.

Raymond Carver