Phil Olivetti Quotes

Marines and soldiers don't issue themselves orders; they don't send themselves overseas. United States citizens elect the leaders who send us overseas. ~ Phil Klay

Unlike adults, Phil said, children had an innocence that was refreshing. However, the human world had started to pollute them - like they did with oceans. ~ Alana Ankh

Be funny on a golf course? Do I kid my best friend's mother about her heart condition? ~ Phil Silvers

Mike [Mann], can you delete an e-mails you may have had with Keith [Trenberth] re AR4? Keith will do likewise ... Can you also e-mail Gene and get him to do the same? I don't have his e-mail address ... We will be getting Caspar to do likewise. ~ Phil Jones

I always thought I'd be the one to go first. The world might be mourning an Everly Brother, but I'm mourning my brother Phil. ~ Don Everly

I think that's what keeps you grounded - having your own life that's not directed by your job. ~ Phil Daniels

He was easy to talk to, and easy not to talk to-equally important qualities in a friend. Essential in a travel companion. ~ Phil Knight

There's a wide spectrum between a Navy SEAL hero-killer and a traumatized victim, but those are the archetypes - hashed and rehashed in the media, in popular culture, in the minds of people with a lot of preconceived notions but not much else. ~ Phil Klay

Creating any type of art is all about mood. I've been making extreme music in one fashion or another for decades. And truthfully, Down has a big enough fan base to where I could remain content to do only that, but music is a vast territory and I am an explorer. And I'm a lover of all things considered extreme in music. ~ Phil Anselmo

Those first few years of marriage, before the war interrupted all our lives, Phil and I had a very happy time. I grew up considerably, mostly thanks to him. ~ Katharine Graham

Write poetry as if you were in love. If you are always in love you will not always write the same poem, but if you are never in love, you may.
- from My Olivetti Speaks ~ Kenneth Koch

If I brought groceries the way I buy health insurance, I'd eat a lot better - and so would my dog. ~ Phil Gramm

success is an enemy to the losers of the day ~ Phil Ochs

I know it shouldn't make a difference, but crossing the dateline, we weren't sure what day it was - it was very strange. Now, I seem to cope with it better. ~ Phil Collins

Every Child Deserves A Chance To Live Their Own Dream ~ Phil Mitchell

Our state's strategy on methamphetamine, and any other issue, is going to be a moving target. ~ Phil Bredesen

Love is the force that ignites the spirit and binds teams together. ~ Phil Jackson

He taught me to be a Da Vinci
and I sit here, with his portraits
waiting for him to return
I do not think he will
Is that what it means to be human
to be all powerful,
to build a temple to yourself
and leave
only the walls to pray ~ Phil Kaye

It was 1988, and I was just finishing a D.Phil at Oxford University on the topic of 'Nietzsche and German Idealism.' ~ Matthew Stewart

Basically, I don't ever move too far past the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus, because it's of first importance. And I make sure it's of first importance with anyone I'm talking to. It all comes down to that, really, when you get right down to it. So it's not complex. Jesus removed our sins and guarantees we can be raised from the dead. ~ Phil Robertson

Don't ever feel like your best days are behind you. Reinvention is the purest form of hope. Make today your best yet! ~ Phil Wohl

You can do right or you can do what you are told. And the prize of the victory will belong to the bold. ~ Phil Ochs

Looking back on it, Sloat wasn't sure how he had tolerated Phil Sawyer for as long as he had. His partner had never played to win, not seriously; he had been encumbered by sentimental notions of loyalty and honor, corrupted by the stuff you told kids to get them halfway civilized before you finally tore the blindfold off their eyes. ~ Stephen King

The meat market itself was probably a greater influence on Spare than his first school. It offered a spectacle of thousands of animal carcasses, which arrived under the market by a specially built railway before being displayed and disposed of at ground level. ~ Phil Baker

Perception can be changed ~ Phil Knight

With any good story, you need the adversary, the heroes and villains. You need a good mixture to make it work. ~ Phil Keoghan

I have bitten down or swallowed a few pellets through the years. My uncle had his appendix removed and there were over 100 lead pellets in it. He might have died of lead poisoning. Now that is eating a lot of game! ~ Phil Robertson

When talking apes from the future land on the beach, slay them. ~ Phil Elmore

I'd tell men and women in their midtwenties not to settle for a job or a profession or even a career. Seek a calling. Even if you don't know what that means, seek it. If you're following your calling, the fatigue will be easier to bear, the disappointments will be fuel, the highs will be like nothing you've ever felt. ~ Phil Knight

Your problems never cease. They just change. ~ Phil Jackson

I was a linear thinker, and according to Zen linear thinking is nothing but a delusion, one of the many that keep us unhappy. Reality is nonlinear, Zen says. No future, no past. All is now. ~ Phil Knight

The stereotypical rock-star-trashing-a-hotel-room thing? Those days had passed by the time I was in a band big enough to do it. ~ Phil Collins