Utah Phillips Quotes

Oh, mercy, I think we're all storytellers, you know. You think of the excuses you told your parents for why you got home late. I just never gave it up.

Utah Phillips

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: activist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 15, 1935 - May 23, 2008

Topics

HomeParentsThinkExcusesYouLate

They were without clothes before I got there, and they were without clothes when I left.

Jock Sturges

ClothesWithoutLeftGotBefore

Sometimes when I'm really enjoying a book, I'll read a sentence or paragraph and just think - how can someone's head be wired in such a way that they'd come up with that?

Joe Abercrombie

BookThinkSomeoneSometimesWayUp

I figure it's a European thing to eat cheese and crackers before a meal - that's my afternoon snack, or I do it before dinner.

Andrew Luck

DinnerCheeseSnackEatMealFigure

I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.

Maya Angelou

CourageEmpathyThinkEnoughMay

In many regions, war and terror prevail. States disintegrate. For many years, we have read about this. We have heard about it. We have seen it on TV. But we had not yet sufficiently understood that what happens in Aleppo and Mosul can affect Essen or Stuttgart. We have to face that now.

Angela Merkel

WarFaceNowYearsPrevailAffect

There will be no more fighting from me. The only things you will see me doing from here on in is trying to act sensible and behave myself.

Tony Bellew

MyselfMeFightingDoingTryingYou

Our style, in one word, the Image guys, our approach to the page was bold.

Rob Liefeld

StyleBoldPageOne WordImageWord

I am a very conscientious golfer. I count every stroke. I learned to play that way. That is the only way I can play. It taught me to be honest. There is no greater virtue than honesty.

Martin Sheen

HonestyI AmMeI CanPlayWay

You should laugh everywhere you can find even the slightest glimmer of humour.

Doug Stanhope

LaughYouFindHumourEvenShould

Never lie to your mother. That's like the biggest lesson that I learned, learned throughout my life, you know?

Bristol Palin

LifeMotherLieMy LifeYouLesson

One thing I learnt early on my career is that personal gratification takes second place.

Brian O'Driscoll

EarlyCareerPlacePersonalSecond

There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel; there is only one home to the life of a tortoise; there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void, whose world will give us shelter?

Wole Soyinka

LifeHomeGreatSoulManWorld

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