Philip Philip Estrin:  

Philip is from Far Rockaway, New York. His schools include Grant High School. He later attended UCLA and studied 7 mL Cobalt per 0.001204 moles of schmaltz and attended Jean Shelton Actors Lab and attended Shelton Studios. He works(ed) at State of California. Philip's interests include Poetry, boxing, science, Los Angeles Dodgers, LA Lakers, The Los Angeles Dodgers Block on Yardsellr, Don Drysdale, Tommy Loughran, Jimmy McLarnin. Music he likes includes Yo-Yo Ma, Bach, Ella Fitzgerald. Books he likes include Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece, War and Peace, Franz Kafka. Movies he likes include The Wild Bunch (Official), The Best Years of Our Lives (WB), A Face In The Crowd. TV shows he likes include The Newsroom, The Big Bang Theory, Breaking Bad. One of Philip's favorite quotes is:""Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence."-- Santayana "Take my wife... please, someone."--Youngman "My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met."-- Rodney Dangerfield "The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. If it were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if it were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living."-- J. H. Poincare "Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it."-- Richard Feynman "Next to boxing, everything else is boring."-- M. Tyson "That Sinatra. Nobody can touch him."-- Jim Morrison "Kafka is the author who comes nearest to bearing the same kind of relationship to our age as Dante, Shakespeare, and Goethe bore to theirs." --Auden "Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people."-- W.C. Fields "Well, I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it."-- Elwood P. Dowd in "Harvey" "Football is like calculus. Someone has to show you how to do it, but once you've got 'er figgered, why, she's easy."-- Bert Jones, Baltimore Colts Q-back and college math major "Far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined! Why do the poets of the present not speak of it? What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were like a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent?"-- Richard Feynman "To those who curse me, let my soul be silent; and let my soul be like dust to everyone."-- Shemoneh Esrei "What, me worry?"-- Alfred E. Neuman "Nothing is funnier than misfortune, I grant you that."-- Sam Beckett "Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower."-- Albert Caums "The higher your station, the less your liberty."-- Sallust "No matter how fast a herring can swim, it will always wind up in the belly of a Litvack."-- my father "As I see it, there are two kinds of people in this world: people who love delis and people with whom you should not associate."-- Damon Runyon "Any time someone goes into a Jewish delicatessen and orders pastrami on white bread, somewhere a Jew dies."-- Milton Berle "Ever since puberty I have believed in two things: kindness and clear thinking. At first these two remained more or less distinct; when I felt triumphant I believed most in clear thinking, and in the opposite mood I believed most in kindness. Gradually, the two have come more and more together in my feelings. I find that much unclear thought exists as an excuse for cruelty, and that much cruelty is propmted by superstitious beliefs."-- Bertrand Russell "Express compassion when you encounter the impoverished, the poor, and the diseased--with people who are outside the mainstream of society, who do not know how to improve their lot, who do not know how to conduct themselves, who are imprisoned by enemies, who have lost great fortunes, who regret having transgressed, and who weep for the consequences of their sins."-- Rabbi Bachya ibn Pakuda ("Duties of the Heart") "Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake."-- W.C. Fields "I find the pastrami to be the most sensual of all the salted cured meats."-- George Costanza "All virtues and duties are dependent on humility."-- Rabbi Bachya ibn Pakuda "If they move--kill 'em."-- William Holden (as Pike Bishop) in Sam Peckinpah's "The Wild Bunch" "When it comes to film directors, I prefer the old masters; by which I mean John Ford, John Ford and John Ford."-- Orson Welles "We are great fools. 'He has spent his life in idleness,' we say; 'I have done nothing today.' What, have you not lived? That is not only the fundamental but the most illustrious of your occupations. 'If I had been placed in a position to manage great affairs, I would have shown what I could do.' Have you been able to think out and manage your own life? You have then done the greatest task of all. To show and exploit her resources, Nature has no need of fortune; she shows herself equally on all levels and behind a curtain as well as without one. To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our conduct. Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately. All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most." -- Michel de Montaigne, "On Experience" "Some things are better than sex, some are worse, but there's nothing exactly like it."--W.C. Fields "Years ago my mother used to say to me, she'd say, 'In this world, Elwood. yo...Expand for more