Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cab Calloway

A phoenix ain't nuthin' but a burd.

Bess Myerson

I'm like a phoenix. I rise from the ashes.

Ann Coulter

Six imams removed from a US Airways flight from Minneapolis to Phoenix are calling on Muslims to boycott the airline. If only we could get Muslims to boycott all airlines, we could dispense with airport security altogether.

Phoenix is a tough team. It'll be a tough game. They're ranked second in the nation, so we're going to have to work.

I don't know my situation right now. I'll find out when I get to Phoenix or when I get back from Phoenix.

Ambrose Bierce

Phoenix, n. The classical prototype of the modern 'small hot bird.'

Dan Fogelberg

Phoenix was a tougher record, a little more commercially accessible record.

Billy Corgan

You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That's the American story, again and again.

Lord Byron

Glory, like the phoenix 'midst her fires, Exhales her odours, blazes, and expires.

Octavia Butler

In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn.

Emile Hirsch

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.

Famke Janssen

Jean Grey, the Phoenix … she finds a way to reincarnate herself constantly, so one never knows.

Sometimes, we give them a ride from Phoenix over here, but we never smuggled them.

Kirk Hammett

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.

Hunter S. Thompson

If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix.

Jodi Picoult

she told me she'd be a phoenix." The image of the mythical creature rising from the ashes glitters in my mind. "They don't really exist." "She said that depends on whether or not there's someone who can see them.

Katie Leung

I like Joaquin Phoenix. He's an amazing actor and he's so buff.

J. K. Rowling

I was supposed to be waiting up here when you got back, only your Phoenix lot got in the way...” “Yes, they do that,” said Dumbledore.

Katherine Waterston

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.

Kathy Griffin

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.

Neil Gaiman

Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.

Enid Bagnold

Dead news like dead love has no phoenix in its ashes.

River Phoenix

I would never, never do anything unless I believed in it.

River Phoenix

Music is a whole oasis in my head. The creation process is so personal and fulfilling.

River Phoenix

I would rather quit while I was ahead. There’s no need in overstaying your welcome.

River Phoenix

It still strikes me as strange that anyone could have any moral objection to someone else's sexuality. It's like telling someone else how to clean their house.

William Butler Yeats

I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.

Rush Limbaugh

So you have the ownership of the Phoenix Suns, the Los Suns, and whoever - "We don't want to offend the portion of our fan base. We want to appear to be politically correct. We want to appear to be all-inclusive" and so forth. Well, fine and dandy, but what happens when that contributes to the overall deterioration of the culture of this society?