Top 100 Quotes About A Phoenix
#1. He had tried to shed his pain, to rise from the ashes like a drab phoenix with no hope except the cold peace of indifference. Now that events forced him to open himself to the world again, he was swamped by emotion as a novice surfer was overwhelmed by each cresting wave.
Dean Koontz
#2. It was completely insane, made absolutely no sense, but then, when did emotions ever give a flying crap about logic?
John Dixon
#3. I know I don't show it often, but I do have a heart. It beats and everything.
Cat Phoenix
#4. Goodreads sports some of the social awkwardness of middle school. If you are looking for a friend, I promise no matter your background or book preferences I will be your friend.
Red Phoenix
#5. Who hears the wishes and goodbyes? The speaker does ... And you hope that what you say from the heart has power. Power to protect, power to reach the ears of the dead. A spoken thing or a whished-hard thing takes a shape within the heart, man. Takes shape. Becomes real.
Adrian Phoenix
#6. I have always been a fire, and everyone I loved walked away as ashes, until I met a phoenix who was born to love flames.
Jenim Dibie
#7. heart of mine has been shattered in a million pieces - but even during the worst of times, I had you. One of God's tender mercies. Love, Phoenix
Brenda Novak
#8. He didn't know what the feeling was, but it was like a Phoenix rising from the ashes of his almost-dead soul. How dramatic. Take that, Shakespeare.
Carly Fall
#9. Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace.
River Phoenix
#10. I remember getting a Phoenix Suns T-shirt. I had that Phoenix Suns T-shirt forever. It's the funny things you remember as a kid, but it was a blast.
Jonathan Lipnicki
#11. Truth has a resonance to it that fills the cracks where falsehoods lie.
Rick DeStefanis
#12. I grew up around the corner from my grandparents' dairy farm, which was three miles outside of a small town called Phoenix.
Bruce Coville
#13. Who needs to be a Phoenix for rebirth? One simply requires themselves and an instrument to clean the slate and start over, perhaps create their own world where everything is better..
TheBakaViolinist
#14. On 'Phoenix,' I talk about thoughts of suicide and my whole life. It's called 'Phoenix' because it's talking about dying - but when a phoenix dies, it's reborn from its own ashes. I related to that.
ASAP Rocky
#15. I don't have the slightest desire to speak over my dead brother. It gets on my nerves to always be compared with him. My brother was a magnificent person and an outstanding actor.
Joaquin Phoenix
#16. The desire for revenge rises within him, resplendent and gauche, like the phoenix on the hood of a Trans Am.
Jeremy Bushnell
#17. I don't walk around like I'm a movie star because I don't think of myself as a movie star. People usually don't even notice me.
Joaquin Phoenix
#18. I revised my opinion that the girl was timid. She appeared to have her giant well under control and a disturbing ability to know what I was feeling.
Joss Stirling
#19. Which came first, the phoenix or the flame?"
" ... I think the answer is that a circle has no beginning."
"Well reasoned.
J.K. Rowling
#20. The Human brain is a hotbed of imagination, capable of taking a simple stimulus and magnifying it many times greater than it is ... let your mind run wild!
Red Phoenix
#21. Sirius was a brave, clever, and energetic man, and such men are not usually content to sit at home in hiding while they believe others to be in danger.
J.K. Rowling
#22. Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.
River Phoenix
#23. I don't want to risk my personal sanity or happiness, or my family, or the love of my life. That's a mistake. And I think a lot of people make that mistake, they're always kind of, like, seeking out the next thing that's gonna happen.
Summer Phoenix
#24. Avoid any Dom with a large ego. Do not mistake arrogance for confidence.
Red Phoenix
#25. I'm a phoenix. Burn me, I will keep rising.
Ksenia Anske
#26. Do I have a large frog in my hair? I have the sensation that something is eating my brain.
Joaquin Phoenix
#27. We are like the phoenix," said Abuelita. "Rising again, with a new life ahead of us.
Pam Munoz Ryan
#28. This estate is called a Phoenix. It's not a municipal venture, it's a social rebirth, a statement of a sincere belief that decent conditions make a decent community, and I'm
Margery Allingham
#29. Phoenix wouldn't stop looking at me like he was looking through a telescope. It was unsettling, being stared at like I was the most beautiful thing in space.
Briana Pacheco
#30. It's an amazing feeling to go into a studio and really be alone.
Joaquin Phoenix
#31. A heart filled with love is like a phoenix that no cage can imprison.
Rumi
#32. Man had gone through hell and back, and even though he rose like a phoenix from the ashes to become the man he is, that smoke still clings to him. I can smell it. And that's what scares me. It's the fear that it's not all over.
Karina Halle
#33. There was a time when I read a script and I just got excited about the possibilities.
Joaquin Phoenix
#34. I'm so pleased you're such a quick judge of character. You've got him tagged."
"Yep, toe-tagged, in the freezer, then buried six feet under.
Joss Stirling
#35. I feel like after Money in the Bank in Phoenix, I almost took a nose dive, career-wise. I couldn't get the reigns on it, but I feel like I finally got the reigns on my career again, and that happens in entertainment.
Bret Hart
#36. I never even thought of myself as deadpan until someone wrote an article about me about a year after I was doing comedy. There was a paper called the 'Boston Phoenix,' and someone wrote a description of what I was doing and that's where I first saw 'deadpan.'
Steven Wright
#37. With public figures involved in a relationship it seems that there is a machine behind their love so oftentimes.
Joaquin Phoenix
#38. This was what she had signed up for - a good man and minimal pleasure.
Red Phoenix
#39. He was a phoenix of blood, rising from the ashes of those who had fallen and suffered before him.
Nenia Campbell
#41. I've been wanting to go into music ever since I can remember. I mean even before I became an actor. I just thought it would be a tough field to break into, so I became an actor instead.
River Phoenix
#42. I want to drink you until there's nothing left. I want you to magically rematerialize so I can do it again. I want a phoenix that will rise from the ashes just so I can keep burning her. I thought I knew madness, but I didn't know it before you.
Kitty Thomas
#43. Phoenix was a tougher record, a little more commercially accessible record.
Dan Fogelberg
#44. For a phoenix to rise, it must first die
Karen Swart
#45. I don't think one should be comfortable standing on a stage with people applauding and laughing at every stupid thing you say.
Joaquin Phoenix
#46. A voice entered her mind. "Get up and run." "Who are you?" "The Phoenix. We must go now.
Lia Davis
#47. I'm good with accents and stuff; it's mostly that I have a really good Spanish accent, so it sounds like I speak a lot better than I do.
Summer Phoenix
#48. I did my best work in The Mosquito Coast. I know it wasn't such a big hit, but for me it was more meaningful than anything else I'd ever done.
River Phoenix
#49. But Rachel knows this isn't true. Nobody can stop anything. The people will always be humping next door. The burning cat will always be rocketing like a comet around every house in which they ever live. Nothing will ever be resolved.
Chuck Palahniuk
#50. His eyes were twin flakes of ember floating into the night from a roaring inferno. I won't let anything happen to you. No matter what I have to do, I will keep you safe.
Airicka Phoenix
#51. Telling a male lion not to be a lion wasn't exactly the easiest thing in the world.
Carrie Ann Ryan
#52. I've used the Phoenix Centrifuge to replicate what the body's going to go through on the flight up. I've also done some gravity tests with ZERO-G [a charter-flight service in Arlington, Va., that uses modified Boeing 727s to simulate weightlessness], which went great.
Richard Branson
#53. When I was in high school, I was a late bloomer. And just like all those supermodels who said they were gawky and no one liked them, that was me - metaphorically. And so I was ready to rise like a phoenix in later times.
Stephen Malkmus
#54. I didn't know much about him, and I wasn't a big country music fan. I listened to the Beatles and David Bowie, so I didn't know a lot about him.
Joaquin Phoenix
#55. You want me to say that when you grow, finally, all the changes will stop, but they don't. There will be another one, another opportunity to grow, to shed your skin, to rise like a phoenix from the ashes, to break out of your cocoon like a perfect new butterfly.
Shauna Niequist
#56. Socrates held up his hands, wiggling his fingers. God gave me these hands to change the world, one child at a time.
Red Phoenix
#57. Ask yourself: if I were a Chinese spy, why wouldn't I have flown directly into Beijing? I could be living in a palace petting a phoenix by now.
Edward Snowden
#58. Rich kids gave us their old clothes. They were the best clothes we ever had. We were these very pure, naive, poor children. The rich kids called us a lot of names but it never bothered us because we didn't know what the words meant.
River Phoenix
#59. It took a long while for me to even put out a record because there were so many options of how to do a song, and in some respects, I'm never totally happy with the outcome.
Rain Phoenix
#60. Definitely River Phoenix is somebody that I thought, 'This guy is very cool.' I wanted to be like him when I was a kid.
Jim Sturgess
#61. I really loved to sing all the time, and I was constantly entertaining. Finally, my dad saw an article in the local newspaper in Phoenix, and it was for a children's theater, an audition for 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.'
Kimiko Glenn
#62. she had shed her old skin that was raw and she has transformed into a person so different from the general. She was bold, well learned, and a phoenix that grew out of ashes.
Kavipriya Moorthy
#63. When I was old enough to realize all meat was killed, I saw it as an irrational way of using our power, to take a weaker thing and mutilate it. It was like the way bullies would take control of younger kids in the schoolyard.
River Phoenix
#64. You may kill a fire. And everything you know falls to dust and ash. Yet the remarkable treasure in this seemingly hopeless pile, is hidden deep within. The burning embers incarnate the perpetual desire to go from spark to flame.
Akilnathan Logeswaran
#65. I sent a silent prayer up to the Phoenix to keep her safe a little longer, because I would tear the shifters limb for limb until I got my baby sister back.
Katherine McIntyre
#66. The fiery tickle of outrage burned up her throat. "How the hell would you know that when you never gave me a chance?"
Something dark and scorching flickered behind his eyes. "Because no other girl has ever made me want to forget all my own rules for them.
Airicka Phoenix
#67. No one is born with a talent. Talent is something we create on our own with practice and dedication.
Airicka Phoenix
#68. He'd seen a phoenix waiting to rise from the ashes, and he still did. every time he looked into Zane, he saw something extraordinary.
Abigail Roux
#69. Regret is bringing the bad past to a good present. And nobody wants a bad present
Zion Phoenix
#70. Should we wait?"
"Yes! YES. Wait - I'm coming. Just give me some time to thaw, and I will rise from the ice and live again. I will be your frozen phoenix. Just give me a chance!
Beth Revis
#71. I think the world of Dave Griffin. I worked with him in Phoenix, got to know him very well, and consider him a friend.
Grant Hill
#72. Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#73. I am attracted to intelligence, a witty sense of humor, an adventurous outlook on life and spiritual awareness about one's self and the world.
Tanit Phoenix
#74. My mother didn't have a heart, Kreacher," Sirius snapped. "She kept herself alive out of pure spite" -Sirius Black to Kreacher, the Order of the Phoenix
J.K. Rowling
#75. I never prepare. I think that's completely overrated. It's a very simple job. All you have to do is hit this bright mark, stand in the right spot and say the line. So I don't really believe in preparation.
Joaquin Phoenix
#76. She cries,
I laugh,
She becomes numb,
I become filled with joy,
She slowly crumbles,
I feel on top of the world,
Yet somehow in the end,
Out of the ashes,
She rose like a Phoenix,
As if nothing had ever touched her
Tanzy Sayadi
#77. An outlaw gulch, a haven for draft resisters, struggling artists, and drug addicts ... a camp for semi-demented adults ... Venice is like the legendary Phoenix - it always seems to rise again from the ashes.
Sara Davidson
#78. I am a phoenix rising from the ashes of my pain and suffering. Today I am reborn, today begins my growth and change.
Kaitlin D.S. Cammie
#79. if Voldemort's possessing me, I'm giving him a clear view into the headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix right now! He'll know who's in the Order and where Sirius is . . . and I've heard loads of stuff I shouldn't have, everything Sirius told me the first night I was here. . . .
J.K. Rowling
#80. His words swirled around my head, and I heard the doctor at the hospital in Phoenix, last spring, as he showed me the X-rays. You can see it's a clean break, his finger traced along the picture of my severed bone. That's good. It will heal more easily, more quickly.
Stephenie Meyer
#81. Jean Grey, the Phoenix ... she finds a way to reincarnate herself constantly, so one never knows.
Famke Janssen
#82. Phoenix, Arizona: an oasis of ugliness in the midst of a beautiful wasteland.
Edward Abbey
#83. In Phoenix, they were called illegal aliens and pegged as criminals. They were alternately viewed as American, Mexican, or neither. Now, for a moment, they were simply teenagers at a robotics competition by the ocean.
Joshua Davis
#84. A distinctive appearance and a simple set of characteristics lead to an extremely flexible brand. (pg. 38)
Woodrow Phoenix
#85. If you plan to pass the pop quiz later, I'd advise it."
"It ain't a pop quiz if you warn people beforehand. Doofus."
"That's llygad-doofus to you, and did I say pop quiz? 'Cuz I meant ninja-quiz since you'll never see it coming.
Adrian Phoenix
#86. Who has not been amazed to learn that the function y = ex, like a phoenix rising from its own ashes, is its own derivative?
Francois Le Lionnais
#87. I've been in clubs. I don't like being in an enclosed place with really loud music, and a lot of drunk people. It's not my idea of a good time. It's just such a miserable life.
Joaquin Phoenix
#88. How have you always felt?" he wondered.
"Loved." Her eyes opened and met his. "Wanted, happy, excited. A little sad."
He felt himself stiffen. "Why sad?"
"Because it always feels like one lifetime with you just isn't enough.
Airicka Phoenix
#89. I hoisted myself onto my elbows. "Yeah, well, if I ever come back as a Grigori, then I'll kick your ass."
"You'll come back, and you'll be a Grigori." He spoke with such certainty it made me smile. "I doubt very greatly, however, that you'll kick my ass. But me and my ass will enjoy your efforts.
Jessica Shirvington
#90. I wouldn't eat a hamburger for 40,000 dollars.
River Phoenix
#91. I didn't ask to be born!"
"No, but I asked." He was breathing hard. His eyes hard and glinting with a fire that burned straight through me. "I asked for you every day of my life!
Airicka Phoenix
#92. If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix.
Hunter S. Thompson
#93. And it's Johnson, Johnson with the Quaffle, what a player that girl is, I've been saying it for years but she still won't go out with me - '
'JORDAN!' yelled Professor McGonagall.
'Just a fun fact, Professor, adds a bit of interest -
J.K. Rowling
#94. Inde fernut, titidem qui vivere debeat annos, corpre de patrio parvum phenica renasci' It's from Ovid. It means, 'A little phoenix is born anew from the father's body, fated to live the same number of years.
Ian Caldwell
#95. Grass isn't greener on the other side of the fence ... it's just a different kind of grass.
G.J. Phoenix
#96. It is, perhaps, a better thing to be valued only as an object of passion than never to be valued at all. I had never been so absolutely the mysterious other. I had become a kind of phoenix, a fabulous beast; I was an outlandish jewel.
Angela Carter
#97. A dark and towering shadow, rising like the phoenix from the ashes ... malevolent ... omnipotent ... The Phantom of the Opera!
Susan Kay
#98. Spider-Man: The Phoenix Force is a crazy powerful cosmic firebird entity that for some reason seems to be attracted to earthbound redheads (I can relate).
Jason Aaron
#99. Yes, but the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters,' said Sirius with a wry smile.
J.K. Rowling
#100. I wouldn't feel satisfied being on set every day doing a romantic comedy - I'd be bored to death.
Joaquin Phoenix
