John Phillips Quotations

The other team played pretty well. If we eliminate that one inning, we could've had the game.

Mainly 90-percent of my customers are here for speeding tickets and the reason is they're in a hurry.

My first impression, as compared to four years ago, is that there's a lot more stuff and more lab equipment here. Plus there's also been an accumulation of spare parts, as well as trash, that hasn't been able to come back.

Because we're a melting pot, people bring their bad driving habits. And bad habits are contagious.

If I told you the tragedy parts, we'd all sit here and cry.

I was drinking tequila and I woke up in the morning and there was no one there, except the worm and myself were still there.

It has really been a pleasure and, no, we are not glad to see you go. We would love to have you stay a little longer. Have a good flight.

We hope to be able to provide enough for all the school buses by May 1.

Well, one doesn't try to hold Cass and Denny and Michelle together. It's a useless task to start with. You just sort of stay out of the way and let things roll as they can.

We're loving something to death in a way, which Americans tend to do a lot.

To the crew of Columbia, as well as the crews of Challenger, Apollo 1 and Soyuz 1 and 11, and to those who have courageously given so much, we now offer our enduring thanks,

We were doing the Monterey Pop Festival, which I produced with Lou Adler, and the town of Monterey was sort of frightened by the thought of two hundred and fifty thousand hippies coming.

You have to think of staffing in terms of the mission. And if the mission is working within the community, those positions are justified.

We hit the ball hard all day, but late in the game we were hitting it right at people, and they made some plays. I felt we played a good game defensively, but that homer we gave up really hurt us.

We saw Rita barreling toward the west, ... The thing that was most on my mind was family safety.

Ever since I've been an astronaut I knew I wanted to do a spacewalk, and it's really comforting to go out with a guy who's done it a lot of times.

The trend is positive, ... Four more points this year and 55 points over the last five years, which is remarkable, a testament to our teachers and students. When you look at a five-year period, you see the difference that is being made.

Of course, we have a lot of people who want to do that.

The most important thing up here is that we are the experiment; we are learning how to fly in space,

Any kind of agriculture is hard to get into and this is no exception. The margins tend to be low, although they can get higher when you are farming thoroughbreds.

This is excellent news. It's good to have the government totally acknowledging the validity of the claim and joining us in it.

Eventually we want to have six or seven people up there, and as soon as we get a third person up there we can multiply the amount of science up there.

Not being truthful a second time, that would be bad. That would make me suspicious.

The last couple of months have been very difficult for me, my family and the players, ... Sometimes, change can bring about growth.

I'm really looking forward to this great adventure of going to a place halfway around the world and launching on a Russian rocket.

His first two innings (the third and fourth) were pretty good. In his third inning, the top of their lineup, their good hitters came up.

Canned and dried foods, ... Unfortunately, there's no ice cream.

I am not a wealthy man. Yes, I am privileged, I do own a lakefront home. But I'd like to know where this mitigation fee comes from. I cannot afford it.

It's been a great adventure, everything I hoped for. But it's time to go home. I miss my family. I miss the Earth.

When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant.

My galligaskins, that have long withstood The winter's fury, and encroaching frosts, By time subdued (what will not time subdue!), A horrid chasm disclosed.

Technology makes things faster and more cost-effective, but it's not perfect. It requires you to be as flexible as you can be.

It's thrilling. There's birth and death and frustration and victory in raising horses. It's like a little microcosm of life is built into the short lives of these creatures.

Little pains In a due hour employ'd great profit yields.

When the sappy boughs Attire themselves with blooms, sweet rudiments Of future harvest.

It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry.

We constantly learn new lessons up here. The experiences we gather will enable us to establish a long-term station on the moon and to go on to Mars.

Happy the Man, who void of Cares and Strife, In Silken, or in Leathern Purse retains A Splendid Shilling: He nor hears with Pain New Oysters cry'd, nor sighs for chearful Ale

When you finally realize that peace is your natural state of being then you will know that any form of non-peace is a belief in illusion. Illusion that anything should be something other than what it is which can never be so. What if instead of waiting for what isn't to become your version of what is, why don't you be peaceful right now while you alter what isn't for you if you so choose? Is it ever worth it to wear a cloak of non-peacefulness over God Brilliance?

Ultimate stupidity: Mistakenly thinking you will get what you want by complaining about and focusing on exactly what you don't want.

No amount of anxiety or worry is going to make any difference to anything that's going to happen anyway, so why let yourself feel so heavy?

Should and should not's are the furthest form or non-reality there is even the best scientists can't track what does.

Traditionally, songwriters can't sing. And that holds true in my case, also.

The way you can recognize to what you are committed to is by your actual results. What you have gotten in life is a direct result (good or bad) to what you have been committed to.

If you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair, if you're going to San Francisco, you're gonna meet some gentle people there.

Faith is a reality and it reaches out to facts that are more solid, more real, more substantial, and more eternal than anything registered by our physical senses.

We will continue to see a convergence of the digital and physical world. Those who conquer that trend will be market leaders.

There is a certain phase in the life of the aged when the warmth of the heart seems to increase in direct proportion with the years.

The trouble right now is there's pressure to answer calls. If an officer is spending time hanging around a neighborhood and getting to know everyone, he's not answering calls.