Phil Donahue Quotes

Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake.

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

To ride two horses at the same time is difficult.

It's very hard to do that many things at the same time - having to dance and sing and be on a horse with a sword. It does get quite confusing.

Most of my life, I feel I have been Unicycling at the Edge of the Abyss! If fact, this will be the name of my book if I ever write one, or a one man stand up routine. I have used it as the name of a collection of my musical compositions written during the '90s. It fits the scary journey I feel I've been on.

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.

It's like trying to pin down a kangaroo on a trampoline.

In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.

Fragility is the quality of things that are vulnerable to volatility.

If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to another - and always into a better set - things might be easier, but the trouble is that there is no one to prepare the new rooms. The future is worse than the ocean - there is nothing there.

It's really impossible to project ahead even six months in this business.

Managing the House of Representatives is like herding cats.

The world is unpredictable.

Pommel horse is probably the most nerve-wracking because it's one of the events that is easiest to fall off, and then you lose the momentum of the whole routine.

I treat my life as though I am on a tightrope.

Puppets interacting with other puppets is super complicated. You're juggling ten balls instead of three.

Juggling a huge cast is a bear.

We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern recognition.

At the edge of chaos, unexpected outcomes occur. The risk to survival is severe.

It is difficult to whistle and drink at the same time.

Prediction is difficult - particularly when it involves the future.

Life can be like walking on a high wire. Falling seems a tiny misstep away.

Golf is deceptively simple, endlessly complicated. A child can play it well and a grown man can never master it. It is almost a science, yet it is a puzzle with no answer.

It's a miracle when something actually turns out well because there are so many ways for it to go wrong.

On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.