K.J. Parker Quotes

I would never kill somebody, unless they pissed me off.

When someone says 'I'm so disillusioned', I say 'Congratulations! You've lost another illusion.'

Age before beauty, and pearls before swine.

In every story I have heard, good teachers share one trait: a strong sense of personal identity infuses their work.

Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.

What people often mean by getting rid of conflict is getting rid of diversity, and it is of the utmost importance that these should not be considered the same.

Fear of difference is fear of life itself.

Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I'll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!

Like Melrose Abbey, large cities should especially be viewed by moonlight.

I knelt, and with the fervor of a lip unused to the cool breath of reason, told my love.

His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.

I do wait in line, and I do take the subway, and I do my own grocery shopping, and I do take the kids to school. But it almost doesn't matter to a certain segment of the populace.

I think that parents only get so offended by television because they rely on it as a babysitter and the sole educator of their kids.

No true manhood can be trained by a merely intellectual process. You cannot train men by the intellect alone; you must train them by the heart.

The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.

Whatever the attitude, so is the response.

What we're always looking for is weird social issues and weird connections to make. Luckily for them, there's no shortage of material.

There's such a freedom about being an artist... You're not accountable - you're this renegade thing.

It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.

An ounce of logic can be worth more than a ton of tradition that has become obsolete through the weathering of time.

It's not just about filming, you go to awards and interviews too. I enjoy all of it, even learning my lines!

Traditionalists often study what is taught, not what there is to create.

Principles of motion take precedence over sequence of motion.

It is the month of June, The month of leaves and roses, When pleasant sights salute the eyes, And pleasant scents the noses.

I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom

You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you're aware of the ratings, you aren't prepared for the response of the fans.

So you have to take the good with the bad.

If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?

So many roads. So many detours. So many choices. So many mistakes.

They sicken of the calm who know the storm.

Everything starts with design.

What do I want to let go of and what do I want to give myself to?

Her mind lives tidily, apart from cold and noise and pain. And bolts the door against her heart, out wailing in the rain.

Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!

The writer's way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?

It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes.

[After she and Clare Boothe Luce met in a doorway and the latter said, 'Age before beauty':] Pearls before swine.

You make an open-ended proposition and the audience completes it somehow. That’s what you hope an artwork to be-a constantly living thing.

I don't want it all to be pretty - it's a combination of loss and gain. Things are born, live and hang in limbo. That's what life's about.

I watch soap operas. I bake brownies. Normalcy is coursing through my veins.

My mother always tells me, "Fear isn't from God," and I believe that. But sometimes, I wonder whether I'll be able step into the shoes that God has prepared for me.

Capitalism is not an economic system, but a world-outlook, or rather, a part of a whole world-outlook

Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.

Can you really forgive if you can't forget?

War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.

A girl's best friend is her mutter.

Humility is the only lens though which great things can be seen--and once we have seen them, humility is the only posture possible.

The truly religious man does everything as if everything depends on himself, and then leaves everything as if everything depended on God.

Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.

The day when I am satisfied with what I have, will be the day I retire from the sport.