John Phillips
John Phillips
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth30 August 1935
CountryUnited States of America
writing character past
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.
time winter long
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 perfect cost
Technology makes things faster and more cost-effective, but it's not perfect. It requires you to be as flexible as you can be.
life horse frustration
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.
pain yield littles
Little pains In a due hour employ'd great profit yields.
sweet harvest attire
When the sappy boughs Attire themselves with blooms, sweet rudiments Of future harvest.
hard-work ancestry generations
It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry.
moon long goes-on
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.
money pain men
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
waiting peaceful what-if
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?
thinking stupidity want
Ultimate stupidity: Mistakenly thinking you will get what you want by complaining about and focusing on exactly what you don't want.
differences worry anxiety
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?
reality track doe
Should and should not's are the furthest form or non-reality there is even the best scientists can't track what does.
cases songwriters
Traditionally, songwriters can't sing. And that holds true in my case, also.