K.J. Parker Quotes

But I don't give up; I forget why not.

[On Katharine Hepburn's stage performance:] She ran the whole gamut of emotions, from A to B.

Democracy means not "I am as good as you are" but "You are as good as I am.".

If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.

I will always have fears, but I need not be my fears, for I have other places within myself from which to speak and act.

To live is to change, and to obtain perfection is to change often.

Where's the man could ease a heart Like a satin gown?

I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.

For us there is but one crime: to be untrue to ourselves.

Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common.

I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That's when I was born.

There are no pure styles of karate. Purity comes only when pure knuckles meet pure flesh, no matter who delivers or receives.

It is not the aim of Kenpo to merely produce a skillful as well as powerful practitioner, but to create a well integrated student respectful of all.

To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary

Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.

Each time a door closes, the rest of the world opens up.

Speak to the suffering, and you will never lack an audience. There is a broken heart in every crowd.

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.

If Americans want prosperity, we need a grand reawakening to the incontrovertible fact that its source is entrepreneurs unfettered by meddling politicians.

I think people that have a brother or sister don't realize how lucky they are. Sure, they fight a lot, but to know that there's always somebody there, somebody that's family.

Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.

Hollywood views regular people as children, and they think they're the smart ones who need to tell the idiots out there how to be.

Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon

The Monte Carlo casino refused to admit me until I was properly dressed so I went and found my stockings, and then came back and lost my shirt.

It seems like the right thing to do is tackle problems other people aren't working on.

Most people are not for or against anything; the first object of getting people together is to make them respond somehow, to overcome inertia.

While leadership depends on depth of conviction and the power coming therefrom, there must also be the ability to share that conviction with others.

If I didn't care for fun and such, I'd probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.

People go to casinos for the same reason they go on blind dates - hoping to hit the jackpot. But mostly, you just wind up broke or alone in a bar.

The transition strategies are more important than understanding what the outcome state will be.

I got to thinking about relationships and partial lobotomies. Two seemingly different ideas that might just be perfect together - like chocolate and peanut butter.

Condition and guts take over where knowledge and skill end.

I definitely wanted to earn my freedom. But the primary motivation wasn't making money, but making an impact.

I don't judge others. I say if you feel good with what you're doing, let your freak flag fly.

we should think not only of what the leader does to the group, but also of what the group does to the leader.

Today I know that there is still work to be done, but along the way I am achieving my dreams.

Liberalism can only be defined negatively. It is a mere critique, not a living idea

The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.

I always argued against the auteur theory; films are a collaborative art form. I've had some fantastically good people help me make the movies.

I love being under pressure. Even the pressure put on me by the media. That is how you outdo yourself.

Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

Humility and self-restraint is the True Objective of Kenpo

Time and space may separate us, but not the thoughts and memories that bind us.

If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised.

Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.

Part of the challenge of being an entrepreneur, if you're going for a really huge opportunity, is trying to find problems that aren't quite on the radar yet and try to solve those

What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.

The man who knows how will always be the student, but the man who knows why will continue to be the instructor.

They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.