Quotes and Sayings About Phoenix
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Phoenix, n. The classical prototype of the modern 'small hot bird.'
-- Ambrose Bierce -
It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.
-- Anne Baxter -
My tattoo is a phoenix. I got the first when I was 16. I hid it for years.
-- Ashley Scott -
I feel like after Money in the Bank in Phoenix, I almost took a nose dive, career-wise. I couldn't get the reigns on it, but I feel like I finally got the reigns on my career again, and that happens in entertainment.
-- Bret Hart -
Pat Phoenix kept that amazing sassy look. I always wonder, was that because she was thrilled with that look, and thought it looked marvellous, or was it because she was too scared to change it? It's a double thing. Security and insecurity.
-- Celia Imrie -
I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.
-- Dan Quayle -
James Dean taught me not to speed, River Phoenix taught me not to DO speed, and Marlon Brando taught me to slow down on the cheeseburgers.
-- Emile Hirsch -
Dead news like dead love has no phoenix in its ashes.
-- Enid Bagnold -
Myths that need clarification: "No matter how many times you see the Grand canyon, you are still emotionally moved to tears." False. It depends on how many children the out-of-towners brought with them who kicked the back of your seat from Phoenix to Flagstaff and got their gum caught in your hair.
-- Erma Bombeck -
I know Dark Phoenix is a huge part of the X-Men saga, so I'm assuming they're at least going to want to touch on it, but I don't know and I don't know whether I would want to be involved. That depends on many different things.
-- Famke Janssen -
Jean Grey, the Phoenix … she finds a way to reincarnate herself constantly, so one never knows.
-- Famke Janssen -
Who has not been amazed to learn that the function y = ex, like a phoenix rising from its own ashes, is its own derivative?
-- Francois Le Lionnais -
I'd love to talk to Joaquin Phoenix because he's a very private guy. Also, he's creating a new kind of sexy leading man. To me, his face is new and might be legendary someday.
-- Isaac Mizrahi -
I seem to be one of the few people in journalism who never worked or wrote for the 'Boston Phoenix.' I certainly read and admired it, and feel the same general malaise at news that it is gone.
-- James Fallows -
Don't hoard the past. Don't cherish anything. Burn it. The artist is the phoenix who burns to emerge.
-- Janet Fitch -
I had a very good package for Phoenix, but at other tracks we do not have the power. The Brazilian Grand Prix was maybe closer to the reality.
-- Jean Alesi -
There is no best anything in art. Phillip [Hoffman] isn't better than Heath [Ledger]; Joaquin [Phoenix] isn't better than David [Strathairn] or Terence [Howard]. They aren't better than me. We all do different things. It's more of a celebration of a lot of great work than to give the gold to somebody. The underappreciated factor certainly has gone away.
-- Jeff Daniels -
I don't follow sports that much now, but I was a Phoenix Suns fanatic in the early '90s.
-- Jesse Eisenberg -
Definitely River Phoenix is somebody that I thought, 'This guy is very cool.' I wanted to be like him when I was a kid.
-- Jim Sturgess -
Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Why can I write 'South' with some assurance that you'll know I mean Richmond and don't mean Phoenix? What is it that the South's boundaries enclose?
-- John Shelton Reed -
There is an inability to sustain the tragic mood, a phoenix quality of the mind. It may be helpful or harmful, it is just a part of the will to survive—yet, also, it has made it possible for us to engage in one weakening war after another. But it is a necessary part of our mechanism that we should be able to cry only for a time over even an ocean of spilt milk—the spectacular must soon become the commonplace if life is to be supportable.
-- John Wyndham -
What I love about the way they both [Paul Thomas Anderson and Joaquin Phoenix] work is that all of the monkey business is on film. There's no monkey business outside of the monkey business of making the movie. There's no ego bullshit, there's no wasted energy. It's all directed at the story and that's rare.
-- Katherine Waterston -
Phoenix is great. I love Phoenix, .. I love Scottsdale. I love the James Hotel. I have a Kathy Griffin suite. I love -what's that place called? AZ 88. I had never had a cheese crisp, so I went to - oh, can't remember. We went to the State Fair, where I was all about the deep-fried Twinkie. I ate every deep-fried thing - oh, it was heavenly. I ate until I got sick.
-- Kathy Griffin -
I like Joaquin Phoenix. He's an amazing actor and he's so buff.
-- Katie Leung -
Metallica is like the phoenix rising from the ashes. We set everything on fire, and this is what has risen from it - St. Anger being the fire and Death Magnetic being the phoenix.
-- Kirk Hammett -
This 51 Phoenix Racing team, I love them to death. They've got my back, I've got theirs.
-- Kurt Busch
