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Philip Wylie Quotes

Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: May 12, 1902 - October 25, 1971

Topics

Blessings Beyond Need Pay Headache

I don't know if it's the way I've been brought up or if it's because I spend so much time away that I appreciate being at home so much.

Home Time Appreciate Know Way Up

Everyone wants to write a book. Very few people are able to do it.

People Book Write Everyone Able Few

The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.

Power Best Effort Try Within Our

We all want to make money.

Money Want Make

Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.

Michel de Montaigne

Way Virtue She Her Companion Rough

A great song is a great song, whether it's on vinyl or CD or cassette or reel to reel or mp3. Then again, that might be an overly optimistic view, but I do think that great music will transcend the medium in which it is delivered.

Music Great Song Think View Will

Look at the evidence and to be willing to question your own truths, and to be willing to scrutinize things that you hold dearly because that way, that transparency, that self-awareness, will protect you from ever becoming somebody that whose beliefs somehow make them have myopic vision about what could be.

Vision You Look Transparency Way

I only dance when I go out.

Dance Go Out Only

You can get a subjective and highly factual dossier on most anyone in the public realm almost instantly. It's why publishers don't worry about author photos any more; people just Google a person and get on with things.

Douglas Coupland

People Worry You Person Why Google

I don't have time to celebrate accomplishments. When good things happen, it's great, and obviously I get excited inside. But soon I gotta do something else; I gotta keep doing more stuff. The whole world will never be familiar, so I'm constantly going to be on a quest to get familiar.

Good Great Time Good Things World

I would rather have one minute at this age than a month at 21.

Age Month Minute Would Rather Than

If we can take Harry Reid out, we can take our country back. I'm not here to preach to the choir. I'm here to organize the army.

Army Back Country Choir Out Preach

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