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Quotes About Philip

Language construction will BREED a mythology. J.R.R. Tolkien
~ Philip Zaleski
Suddenly, I was reading these comics. I was looking at those bubbles, those dialogue bubbles, and suddenly there were words... recognizable words.
~ Philip Schultz
in Plutarch's account of the birth of Alexander the Great, mother Olympias got pregnant from a snake; it was announced by a bolt of lightning that sealed her womb so that her husband Philip could not have sex with her.
~ James D. Tabor
Among the disciples of Jesus, it seems most likely that at least Philip was bilingual in Aramaic and Greek.
~ Jay Parini
As an actor, I really like Philip Seymour Hoffman. I think he's a genius.
~ Simon Cowell
I'm really enjoying the character now, but I don't want to just be Philip Marlowe. I wouldn't mind playing him every couple of years, perhaps, as a kind of open franchise - you know?
~ Powers Boothe
The most interesting legal philosophy is German, so naturally I went to Germany, particularly to Berlin, quite a bit.
~ Philip Kerr
His aim was the glory of God, but the glory of Philip pleased him too.
~ Ken Follett
I shall not want Honor in Heaven For I shall meet Sir Philip Sidney And have talk with Coriolanus And other heroes of that kidney.
~ T. S. Eliot
at the southern base of Mount Hermon. This was Cesarea Philippi, formerly called Paneas, from the heathen god Pan, who was worshipped by the Syrian Greeks in the limestone cavern near by, in which Jordan's fountains bubble forth to light. Its present name was given to it by Philip, tetrarch of Trachonitis, in honor of Cesar Augustus; his own name being appended (Cesarea Philippi, or Philip's Cesarea) to distinguish it from the other town of the same name on the Mediterranean coast.
~ Alexander Balmain Bruce
But these words of Philip, and all that we elsewhere read of him, rather suggest to us the idea of the earnest inquirer after truth, who has thoroughly searched the Scriptures and made himself acquainted with the Messiah of promise and prophecy, and to whom the knowledge of God is the summum bonum.
~ Alexander Balmain Bruce
I was quite pleased that Prince Philip didn't say anything like, I hate queers! He was quite well behaved.
~ Allan Carr
The 65,536 processors were inside the Connection Machine.
~ Philip Emeagwali
His aim was the glory of God, but the glory of Philip pleased him too.
~ Ken Follett
Philip couldn't fornicate if you put him in a barrel with three whores.
~ Ken Follett
When Philip relived that day in his nightmares, and woke up sweating and screaming in the dark, he would always be able to calm himself, and eventually relax into sleep again, by bringing to mind that final tableau, and the way the screaming and the wounds had been swept aside by the unarmed man with the cross.
~ Ken Follett
In certain systems, receivers are just an X receiver or a Z receiver, and they just have to learn this route on this play.
~ Philip Rivers
If you tell a novelist, 'Life's not like that', he has to do something about it. The poet simply replies, 'No, but I am.'
~ Philip Larkin
I was lucky enough to know Prince Philip in his prime - the most dynamic man I have ever met. And I was privileged to know him almost to the end.
~ Gyles Brandreth
No, the missionary efforts of Peter, Stephen, Philip and Paul never urge lost men to do anything other than to repent of sin and bow in faith before Jesus Christ. When they debate, they draw their arguments from the Scriptures (Acts 17:2;
~ Robert L. Reymond
Hamilton induced Philip Schuyler to renege on his pledged support for Duane in favor of King.
~ Ron Chernow
Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it is as unfair as only sport can be.
~ Philip Guedalla
Late in the 16th centurt, William Cecil's son, Thomas reortedthat Philip had said that 'whatever he suffered from Queen Elizabeth was the judgement of God because, being married to Queen Elizabeth, whom he though a most virtuous and good lady, yet in the fancy of love he could not affect her; but as for the Lady Elizabeth; he was enamored of her, being a fair and beautiful woman.
~ Alison Weir
The previous year, Philip had married for the seventh time
~ Roderick Beaton