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Quotes About Phyllis

There was a brass bedstead with a tan spread, on which slept a big, tiger-striped yellow cat.
~ Phyllis A. Whitney
When we were doing 'The Office,' there was an area backstage where they worked on hair and makeup, and I was sitting there waiting to get ready to go on, and one of the writers went, 'I want you to audition for 'Bad Teacher.'' I went, 'Okay!'
~ Phyllis Smith
Now grandfather Satan's wife was called Phyllis: and apart from having wings like a bat's, she was the loveliest little slip of devilishness that Jurgen had seen in a long while.
~ James Branch Cabell
The atomic bomb is a marvelous gift that was given to our country by a wise God.
~ Phyllis Schlafly
Now that judges embrace forcibly starving someone to death, Congress should use its appropriation power to starve the judicial budget.
~ Phyllis Schlafly
The rounded slopes, Phyllis said, indicated ancient water as clearly as the grain in petrified wood indicated the original tree. By the way she spoke Nadia understood that this was another of her disagreements with Ann; Phyllis believed in the long wet past model, Ann in the short wet past. Or something like that. Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Normally I will have five or six cups of tea a day, and if I can have them poured from a teapot, then all the better. I think tea tastes so much nicer from a pot.
~ Phyllis Logan
Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.
~ Phyllis McGinley
The one thing we do know is that after his death, all the legal papers on my case came up missing. Evelyn talked to Phyllis, Stanley's widow, and she gave her every legal paper she could find that had something to do with my case, but the bulk of the material was still missing. Finally, Evelyn found out that the New York City police had my legal papers. "How did they get them?" i asked her. "I don't even want to think about it," she answered.
~ Assata Shakur
Her legacy was not--would not be--this disease. Phyllis Marie Unold Avery told us stories...It is my promise to her that for as long as I am able, I will recognize, restory, and remember.
~ Nancy A. Dafoe
Are you sure you wouldn't like some toast, Phyllis? Toast is one of the triumphs of our civilisation. It must be made with very fresh bread, thickly cut; then toasted very quickly and buttered at once, so the butter is half-melted. Unsalted butter, of course; you sprinkle it with salt afterwards. Sea salt, preferably.
~ Fay Weldon
There's an amphora of old wine in the house of nine years' vintage. There is in the garden, Phyllis, laurel for braiding crowns and much ivy . . . I invite you to celebrate this day in mid-April— a festive one for me, dearer than my own birthday. (IV,
~ Carlo Rovelli
Maybe he was just a crazy guy who liked funerals." Phyllis was applying polish topcoat with all the care of Michelangelo painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. "Nobody goes to funerals for fun," said Lucy,
~ Leslie Meier
It did not have the makings of a cozy situation for anyone but Mordred, who seems to relish being hated for the love of being hated.
~ Unknown
Sistersville, which is halfway between Wheeling and Parkersburg. Used to be, my
~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Wally closed his eyes. He couldn't imaging dragging Eddie anywhere. A tiger, maybe, but not Eddie Malloy.
~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
RETORT "Thou art a fool," said my head to my heart, "Indeed, the greatest of fools thou art, To be led astray by the trick of a tress, By a smiling face or a ribbon smart;" And my heart was in sore distress. Then Phyllis came by, and her face was fair, The light gleamed soft on her raven hair; And her lips were blooming a rosy red. Then my heart spoke out with a right bold air: "Thou art worse than a fool, O head!
~ Paul Laurence Dunbar