S. N. Parker Quotes

The problem is we moved to LA... The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican.

When I was young, to have a big nose, big lips or dark skin was the worst. You were the wretched.

Temperance is corporeal piety; it is the preservation of divine order in the body.

I dont know if Im a heartthrob or if I want to be one! I heard that I get the most fan mail. Its very flattering, and lovely to be popular with the public.

Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.

I give her sadness and the gift of pain, a new moon madness and a love of rain.

For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them.

When the leaves turn brown, I'll be wearing the batting crown

This living, this living, this living Was never a project of mine.

I find Mormons adorable.

It is of equal importance with the discovery of facts to know what to do with them.

Good teachers join self and subject and students in the fabric of life.

After reading the doctrines of Plato, Socrates or Aristotle, we feel the specific difference between their words and Christ's is the difference between an inquiry and a revelation.

If the furnace is hot enough, anything will burn, even Big Macs.

You may not, cannot, appropriate beauty. It is the wealth of the eye, and a cat may gaze upon a king.

I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real.

I don't mind anything that's written about me, as long as it's not true.

And the most successful leader of all is one who sees another picture not yet actualized. He sees the things which belong in his present picture but which are not yet there.

I love the opportunity to wear something really special and go to a wonderful event at some great cultural institution.

If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it's the fact that it's the best you can do that kills you.

All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.

Basketball is what I do, it’s not who I am.

People have a lot of different beliefs, and at the end of the day, we all have deeply held beliefs that probably don't make sense to anyone else.

Newton's Fourth Law: Every action has an equal and opposite satisfaction.

[On hearing that President Coolidge was dead:] How can you tell?

I am not sure that any sight or sound on earth is as exquisite as the hushed descent of a sky full of snow.

When you win 20 games in a row and then lose four, people ask you, 'What happened?'...That's the beauty of sports.

The conflict of chemistry we do not think reprehensible. If we could look at social conflict as neither good nor bad, but simply a fact, we should make great strides in our thinking.

Pride is both a virtue and a vice.

all men are the same age.

He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.

You're going to see ups and downs your whole career.

It is vain to trust in wrong; as much of evil, so much of loss, is the formula of human history.

Art is a form of catharsis emotional release, purging, cleansing, purifying.

The winters will drive you crazy until you learn to get out into them.

We are sometime truly to see our life as positive, not negative, as made up of continuous willing, not of constraints and prohibition.

Getting up at three in the morning to watch Michael Jordan, I never dreamed one day I would be kissing that trophy.

Goodness is a perpetual quantity, all penetrating, all searching, impartial, noble, a comfort in distress, a refuge to the weak, a tower and a defense to all who wish to be right and to do right.

Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective.

So we're considering doing a new Christmas album, because there's been Christmas episodes since then, and maybe finally do the version of 'The Most Offensive Song Ever' with lyrics intact.

I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.

I find her anecdotes more efficacious than sheep-counting, rain on a tin roof, or alanol tablets.... you will find me and Morpheus, off in a corner, necking.

She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.

A Time Comes When Silence is Betrayal.

And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word.

When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho.

And if you are a parent, introduce your children to their neighborhood library. It will give them a real sense of independence to have their own library card and enjoy borrowing books.

I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for "then" but a message for "now."

There's an argument for saying that brave men deserve what they get, but it's a serious business forcing cowards to stand in harm's way.

My fear is that, as soon as I get married and have kids that I'll kind of do what a lot of people do and suddenly start making, 'Now I'm gonna make films for kids.' I really hope I don't do that.