Phases famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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They're different kinds of challenges depending upon what phase of life I'm in.
-- Alanis Morissette -
You see, Greg, my mother is going through a feline phase. Blinky is a Persian,' Hale said simply, as if that should explain everything. 'Binky has a nasty habit of shedding all over the living room furniture, you see.' Gregory Wainwright nodded as if he understood perfectly. 'And so we had to get new living room furniture, which, unfortunately, does not go with the Monet.' Kat stood there for a moment, staring into that small window of the world where someone would tire of a Monet simply because it clashed with the couch.
-- Ally Carter -
The Cold War may be 'over' for the West. For the Soviets it has entered a new, active and promising phase.
-- Anatoliy Golitsyn -
Every comic went through their Mitch Hedberg phase - the glasses, the hair in the face - and you knew immediately when they were doing it.
-- Anthony Jeselnik -
I had a gothic phase, and now I'm more edgy chic.
-- Ashley Benson -
A more significant phase should mean serious political dialogue.
-- Aung San Suu Kyi -
Our crisis is a birth. We are one living system and we have come to the limit of one phase of natural growth on a finite planet We must learn ethical evolution quickly As we seek to facilitate a gentle birth, a graceful and nonviolent transition to the next stage of our evolution, we will discover a natural pattern, a design of our birth transition, and develop a plan to cooperate with this design.
-- Barbara Marx Hubbard -
I think that I used to love Hollywood movies. I remember great phases and moments. But, unfortunately, now is not the moment.
-- Bernardo Bertolucci -
I've had a wordless phase, and that's still not entirely over: what I sing is not always literally meant that way, and you can hear that in the way it is sung.
-- Beth Gibbons -
For in grief nothing 'stays put.' One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats. Am I going in circles, or dare I hope I am on a spiral?
-- C. S. Lewis -
It's not until the very last phase that you know how good the works are going to be.
-- Caio Fonseca -
The most important phase of a child’s life was the beginning of it. He must be started right.
-- Caroline Pratt -
Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse.
-- Cassandra Wilson -
I went through a mod and goth-phase when I decided that I wouldn't ever be the bronzed beach-bunny. I started going as pale as I possibly could.
-- Cate Blanchett -
Publishers give you deadlines for those last phases of production that are perfectly comfortable for them. So, to whatever extent I can, I like to push those to give me a little more time, and make it so that they're as uncomfortable as I am.
-- Charles Frazier -
And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe
-- Clifford D. Simak -
We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954.
-- Constance Baker Motley -
I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing.
-- Dario Argento -
I'm totally not a nostalgic person. I always look to the future and as much as I've enjoyed the ride until now and the different phases, I'm more excited about the next music.
-- David Guetta -
The driving forces of the universe, the framework upon which it is built up in all its parts, belong to another phase of manifestation than our physical plane, having other dimensions than the three to which we are habituated, and perceived by other modes of consciousness than those to which we are accustomed.
-- Dion Fortune -
I have said consistently both in my papers and in my speeches - which you heard in the primary campaign - that I will continue to phase out the Capital Stock and Franchise tax.
-- Ed Rendell -
If I do not seem to be mentioning anything I’ve read lately, it is because I am in one of those periods of undifferentiated flux or something in which I am reading about fifty, at a minimum, books at once, so of course I seldom finish one. Eventually this phase will pass, and I’ll discover I have about ten pages to go in all of them, and will sit down and systematically finish them, one after another.
-- Edward Gorey -
Welcome any change that comes into any phase in your life; insist that it is going to turn out for the better - and it will. See the Angel of God in it, and the Angel of God will make all things new.
-- Emmet Fox -
Chaos reigned, and the survivalists eagerly unwrapped the kidskin from their crossbows. Phase one of Opal's plan was complete.
-- Eoin Colfer -
When I was a kid, I went through a lot of musical phases, and one was when I'd learn everything that The Beatles ever recorded. After I started drums, I fell in love with their music so much that I just wanted to learn everything.
-- Eric Carr -
I would rather instill in my amateur students love, than knowledge, of music. Left with only knowledge, they will at the end close their books and consign the course to forgetfulness. But if they have learned to love but the smallest part of the art, they are likely to pursue some phase of it the rest of their lives.
-- Ernst Bacon -
The cybernetics phase of cognitive science produced an amazing array of concrete results, in addition to its long-term (often underground) influence
-- Francisco Varela -
Social psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience.
-- George H. Mead -
Either the Earth System would undergo major phase transitions as a result of unchecked human pressure on nature's capacities and resources or a "Great Transformation" towards global sustainability would be initiated in due course. Neither transitions nor transformations will be manageable without novel forms of global governance and markets...
-- Hans Joachim Schellnhuber -
Fairness is a concept that holds only in limited situations. Yet we want the concept to extend to everything, in and out of phase. From snails to hardware stores to married life. Maybe no one finds it, or even misses it, but fairness is like love. What is given has nothing to do with what we seek.
-- Haruki Murakami -
Look in the mirror every day and say, I am in charge. You might not have control over every phase of your life, but you have more control than you realize, and you are responsible for your own happiness and success.
-- Harvey Mackay -
It is interesting to note that in every phase of life feminine masochism finds some form of expression.
-- Helene Deutsch -
The first phase of American political history was characterized by the conflict between the Federalists and the Republicans, and it resulted in the complete triumph of the latter.
-- Herbert Croly -
It follows that if you are not a mother you are not a grandmother. Your life has become unpunctuated, whereas the lives of other women around you have these distinct phases.
-- Hilary Mantel -
Read as much as you possibly can. Nothing will help you as much as reading and you'll go through a phase where you will imitate your favorite writers and that's fine because that's a learning experience too.
-- J. K. Rowling -
I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.
-- Ja Rule -
No serious-minded man should have time for the mediocre in any phase of his living.
-- James Cash Penney -
I went through phases of odd hairstyles and tank top-over-tee outfits and stuff like that.
-- Jamie Lynn Sigler -
First there is the search and rescue phase that is now ending. It is a cruel reality.
-- Jan Egeland -
We are very definitely in a new phase in the global terrorist threat where the so-called lone wolf could strike at any moment.
-- Jeh Johnson -
I went through a big Alice Cooper phase, which was probably a major influence on my writing style later, especially after Plastic Surgery Disasters.
-- Jello Biafra -
We are entering a new phase in human history - one in which fewer and fewer workers will be needed to produce the goods and services for the global population.
-- Jeremy Rifkin -
In L.A., I like to surf. I went through a phase - I was surfing four days a week. I'm still not good at it; I still spend most of my time falling.
-- Jess Weixler -
Man is completely out of phase with nature. Nature is woman. Man is the intruder. The man who re-attunes himself with nature is the man who de-mans himself or eliminates himself as man.
-- Jill Johnston -
Every subject at some phase of its development should possess, what is for the individual concerned with it, an aesthetic quality.
-- John Dewey -
There is a certain phase in the life of the aged when the warmth of the heart seems to increase in direct proportion with the years.
-- John Phillips -
We all went through that teen phase of wearing that really soft fragrance. As I got older, I started loving men's fragrances and cologne. I was so attracted to men's cologne; I would spray it all over me.
-- John Slattery -
Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.
-- John W. Gardner -
Bill Hanna and I owe an awful lot to television, but we both got our start and built the first phase of our partnership in the movies.
-- Joseph Barbera -
I went through this very serious Woody Allen phase in college and a little bit after college. I still see his movies.
-- Josh Radnor -
Even through the darkest phase Be it thick or thin Always someone marches brave Here beneath my skin
-- K. D. Lang -
When every fact, every present or past phenomenon of that universe, every phase of present or past life therein, has been examined, classified, and co-ordinated with the rest, then the mission of science will be completed. What is this but saying that the task of science can never end till man ceases to be, till history is no longer made, and development itself ceases?
-- Karl Pearson -
Childhood is not a state which only applies to the first phase of our lives in the biological sense. Rather it is a basic condition which is always appropriate to a life that is lived aright.
-- Karl Rahner -
There are two phases to a movie. First you shoot the movie, and then you make the movie. Generally, post-production is longer than filming.
-- Keenen Ivory Wayans -
Aerobic dancing is already adjusting to injury problems and will probably phase out to some extent.
-- Kenneth H. Cooper -
I went through awkward, chubby, total weirdo phases.
-- Kesha -
Being a grandparent is whole new phase in your life.
-- Kevin Whately -
Once again she would arrive at a foreign place. Once again be the newcomer, an outsider, the one who did not belong. She knew from experience that she would quickly have to ingratiate herself with her new masters to avoid being rejected or, in more dire cases, punished. Then there would be the phase where she would have to sharpen her senses in order to see and hear as acutely as possible so that she could assimilate quickly all the new customs and the words most frequently used by the group she was to become a part of--so that finally, she would be judged on her own merits.
-- Laura Esquivel -
I'm really happy to be a mom, and I'm proud of the phase I'm in.
-- Liz Phair -
I expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.
-- Lucy Stone -
We are sorry to confess that biological hypotheses have not yet completely got out of the second phase, and that ghost of ‘vital force’ still haunts many wise heads.
-- Ludwig Buchner -
We welcome the Election Commission's announcement of a five-phase poll in the state. We will abide by all the guidelines and directives issued by the Commission.
-- Mamata Banerjee -
No phase of life, whether public or private, can be free from duty.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
This change to a higher phase of alert is a signal to governments, to ministries of health and other ministries, to the pharmaceutical industry and the business community that certain actions now should be undertaken with increased urgency and at an accelerated pace.
-- Margaret Chan -
After Ive sent my revised draft to my agent and editor, they suggest more improvement sand again, this revision phase can take anywhere from a few hours to a few months.
-- Margaret Haddix -
When virtue is pictured as innocence and innocence equated with childlikeness, the implication is obviously that knowledge and experience are no longer media of goodness, but have become in themselves contaminating. This is a very despairing outlook, in its way as black as Augustine's original sin, for it supposes that original goodness will in all likelihood be defiled...It surrenders the attempt to represent virtue in a mature phase.
-- Marina Warner -
until you learn that an artist cannot afford to scorn any phase of life that is human, you will never do great work.
-- Marjorie Benton Cooke -
I had a girlfriend before I ever had a boyfriend, but it was just a phase.
-- Mark Gatiss -
The Obama administration deserves credit for quickly ending the housing free fall. In particular, Obama empowered the Federal Housing Administration to ensure that households could find mortgages at low interest rates even during the worst phase of the financial panic.
-- Mark Zandi -
Your home should be a reflection of how you want to live right now, and for the next phase of your life.
-- Martha Stewart -
Any great organization can go through sectarian phases.
-- Mary Douglas -
There is a phase in the life of every copy editor when she is obsessed with hyphens.
-- Mary Norris -
I thought I wanted to be a lawyer and was going through this growth phase.
-- Matthew McGrory -
The artist is a spectator, indifferent or impassioned, at the birth of his work, and observes the phases of its development.
-- Max Ernst -
Young people who learn the arts do better in every phase of their lives.
-- Meryl Streep -
Racism is essentially natural, it's old fashioned it's an evolutionary phase that we're going through. Ultimately it wont exist
-- Michael Hutchence -
The most important phase of living with a person: the respect for that person as an individual.
-- Millicent Carey McIntosh -
Kids should be naughty and go through that rebellious phase I didn't have.
-- Naomie Harris -
Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.
-- Napoleon Hill -
The research phase was really fascinating - I'm not a closeted nerd, I'm an out-of-the-closet nerd.
-- Natalie Merchant -
Most certainly, some planets are not inhabited, but others are, and among these there must exist life under all conditions and phases of development.
-- Nikola Tesla -
I definitely divide my life into decades. Almost every ten years, something in my work life has changed. My twenties were my journalistic phase, then there was my screenwriting phase, then I became a director, then I started doing some plays...
-- Nora Ephron -
When something's ending, you go through so many phases, and it can be frustrating. But once you're out on the other side, it's like you can really see all the crazy phases you went through.
-- Norah Jones -
A painter like Picasso, who runs through many periods and phases, ends up by saying all those things which are on the tip of the tongue of the age to say, and finally sterilizes the originality of his contemporaries and juniors.
-- Norbert Wiener -
We are entering a new phase of European politics. What is decisive is not only do we have a single currency area, but also that it is accompanied by a co-ordinated economic and financial policy. We must drive forward tax harmonisation in Europe.
-- Oskar Lafontaine -
You cannot move on to a new phase in life if you bring your old baggage with you, let the bad go, and move onto the new.
-- Patrick Read Johnson -
Indeed, I find it illuminating to consider to what extent our "classical conditions" for economic growth are satisfied in the current, monopolistic phase of capitalism.
-- Paul A. Baran -
Astronauts have been stuck in low-Earth orbit, boldly going nowhere. American attempts to kick-start a new phase of lunar exploration have stalled amid the realisation that NASA's budget is too small for the job.
-- Paul Davies -
It's like there was me, then the Beatles phase, and now I'm me again.
-- Paul McCartney -
Purposeless activity may be a phase of death.
-- Pearl S. Buck -
Being the first to cross the finish line makes you a winner in only one phase of life. It's what you do after you cross the line that really counts.
-- Ralph Boston -
Genocide has two phases: one, destruction of the national pattern of the oppressed group; the other, the imposition of the national pattern of the oppressor. This imposition, in turn, may be made upon the oppressed population which is allowed to remain or upon the territory alone, after removal of the population and the colonization by the oppressor's own nationals.
-- Raphael Lemkin -
I've given it my all. I've done my best. Now, I'm ready with my family to begin the next phase of our lives.
-- Richard M. Daley -
Look at Paul McCartney, look at Elton John. They're jealous of Justin Timberlake. I'm sure they were jealous of me when I was in my imperial phase.
-- Robbie Williams -
Study your reader first - your product second. If you understand his reactions, and present those phases of your product that relate to his needs, then you cannot help but write a good letter.
-- Robert Collier -
Carbon dioxide is unusual because it doesn't go through the usual three phases of matter, from solid to liquid to gas, but it goes straight from solid to gas. The volume of the gas is much greater than the volume of the solid. When a solid turns into a gas, we say it sublimes. The process is sublimation.
-- Robert Winston -
Not that my arms are getting tired or anything, but... how much longer is the hugging phase going to last?
-- Robin Wasserman -
I went through the standard scientific atheist phase when I was about 14. I bought into that package deal of science equals atheism.
-- Rupert Sheldrake -
By playing slowly during the early phases of a game I am able to grasp the basic requirements of each position. Then, despite being in time pressure, I have no difficulty in finding the best continuation. Incidentally, it is an odd fact that more often than not it is my opponent who gets the jitters when I am compelled to make these hurried moves.
-- Samuel Reshevsky
