Phoenix Quotes - Page 4

• By 2040, the Sahara will be moving into Europe and Berlin will be as hot as Baghdad. Atlanta will end up a kudzu jungle. Phoenix will become uninhabitable, as will parts of Beijing (desert), Miami (rising seas) and London (floods). Food shortages will drive millions of people north, raising political tensions.

  James Lovelock

  Moving, Atlanta, Europe

  "James Lovelock, the Prophet" by Jeff Goodell, www.rollingstone.com. November 1, 2007.

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• Then people ask me if I'm worried about the effects of global warming on my kids. Well, obviously I love my kids and I want them to live to be a 100. So that's another 1.8. My kids' kids? Three point six. I'll just tell them we moved to Phoenix.

  Dennis Miller

  Funny, Humor, Kids

  "When Did Nature Get So Whiney?". www.foxnews.com. September 12, 2003.

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• He caught me stealing his golden phoenix.' Tithonus closed his eyes briefly. 'Good grief!' He opened them again. 'I was half hoping it wasn't true. Have you any idea of the implications?' 'He was mistreating it!' Pyrgus protested. 'Of course he was mistreating it. This is Black Hairstreak we're talking about. He mistreats his own mother. I don't suppose you stole her as well?

  Herbie Brennan

  Mother, Grief, Eye

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• I love using unique names, so I go to a baby names site on the Internet and use the unique names. Sometimes my names have meanings such as 'strong', 'fire', and Phoenix which means dark red and is Greek. It's fun to think of a name meaning and matching it with a name. Even Frances means Victory.

  Franny Armstrong

  Baby, Strong, Fun

  Source: romancing-the-book.com

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• 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?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Deterioration, Want, Sun

  "Professional Sports Should Man Up". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. May 5, 2010.

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• It may be said of happy marriages as of the phoenix - there is but one a century.

  Elisabeth Charlotte d'Orleans

  Marriage, May, Century

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• 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

  Bullshit, Ego, Energy

  Source: collider.com

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• Dig a trench through a landfill and you will see layers of phone books like geographical strata or layers of cake.... During a recent landfill dig in Phoenix, I found newspapers dating from 1952 that looked so fresh you might read one over breakfast.

  William Rathje

  Book, Cake, Phones

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• 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.

  J. K. Rowling

  Waiting, Way, Draco Malfoy

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• I remember every wand I’ve ever sold, Mr. Potter. Every single wand. It so happens that the phoenix whose tail feather is in your wand, gave another feather — just one other. It is very curious indeed that you should be destined for this wand when its brother — why, its brother gave you that scar.

  J. K. Rowling

  Brother, Tails, Potters

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

  Famke Janssen

  Way, Grey, Knows

  "Hugh Jackman Says 'The Wolverine' Features A Previous 'X-Men' Character, Christoph Waltz Might Appear in 'The Muppets 2' After All" by Charlie Schmidlin, www.indiewire.com. December 27, 2012.

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• What if River Phoenix had lived?

  Drew McWeeny

  Rivers, What If, Ifs

  "What if River Phoenix had lived?" by Drew McWeeny, uproxx.com. August 19, 2013.

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• 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

  Rivers, Taught, Speed

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Someone's dead," said Malfoy, and his voice seemed to go up an octave as he said it. "One of your people...I don't know who, it was dark...I stepped over the body...I was supposed to be waiting up here when you got back, only your Phoenix lot got in the way.

  J. K. Rowling

  Dark, Voice, People

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• The Phoenix Project is a must read for business and IT executives struggling with the growing complexity of IT.

  Jim Whitehurst

  Struggle, Growing, Projects

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• My mother took us to services at the Episcopal church. Yet she always said that God was not just inside the four walls of a house of worship, but everywhere - in the rising sun over Camelback Mountain in Phoenix, a splash of water along the nearby Salt or Verde rivers, or clouds driving over the Estrella Mountains, south of downtown. I've always thought of God in those terms.

  Barry Goldwater

  Mother, Wall, Clouds

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• The air is full of a farewell- deserted by the silver lake lies the wild world, overturned. Cities rise where the mountains fell, the furnace where the phoenix burned

  Kathleen Raine

  Lying, Farewell, Lakes

  Kathleen Raine (1989). “Selected Poems”, p.20, SteinerBooks

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• So, the Phoenix Suns are wearing jerseys written in Spanish, made in China, modeled after their best player, Canadian Steve Nash. There you go. That is America.

  Jay Leno

  Player, America, Jersey

  "Cnn Newsroom" with Kyra Phillips, www.cnn.com. May 6, 2010.

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• I mean it was weird. But Phoenix watched us every night. But it's like they're not even a band, they're like a corporation. They bring a staff of like 40 people.

  Mac DeMarco

  Mean, Night, People

  Source: www.quipmag.com

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• I remember getting a Phoenix Suns T-shirt. I had that Phoenix Suns T-shirt forever. It's the funny things you remember as a kid, but it was a blast.

  Jonathan Lipnicki

  Kids, Funny Things, Forever

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When an elder turns to face the dead, that means he turns away from facing the future and his own retirement in Phoenix, let's say. He turns and finds himself facing the children.

  Robert Bly

  Retirement, Children, Mean

  Source: www.utne.com

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• Their [Phoenix] audience wasn't into us at all. The way most of the venues worked was there was no alcohol on the floor so usually during our set most people were in the lobby getting their drink on.

  Mac DeMarco

  People, Alcohol, Way

  Source: www.quipmag.com

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• Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Phoenix arrested three people. As soon as he arrested those three people, everybody else immediate left.

  Donald Trump

  People, Three, Sheriffs

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• We had a great rally right next to Phoenix, and it was an amazing, 21,000 people. But the protesters block the road. So you had thousands of people that couldn't get in.

  Donald Trump

  Block, People, Next

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• If [Hillary] Clinton can come close in those two traditionally red states, it will be because of the diverse, educated populations around Atlanta and Phoenix. And it will be a sign that Arizona and Georgia are on their way to becoming the new battleground states.

  Mara Liasson

  Atlanta, Two, Population

  Source: www.npr.org

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