S. N. Parker Quotes

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.

Basic fact of life: no matter how far you run, you always take yourself with you.

Running to him was real; the way he did it the realest thing he knew. It was all joy and woe, hard as a diamond; it made him weary behond comprehension. But it also made him free.

Responsiblity is the great developer of men.

I've never hanged a man. It is the law that has done it.

The ablest administrators do not merely draw logical conclusions from the array of facts of the past which their expert assistants bring to them, they have a vision of the future.

It's good to feel stupid sometimes and do things that are out of your comfort zone.

A political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible

Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period

The important part of Marxism was its demand for active, constant, practical, class-war

I think the voice does that perfectly adequately without being imitated by other instruments.

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

Improvisation is a compositional method.

There's nothing more irresistible to a man than a woman who's in love with him.

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.

How beautiful it is for a man to die Upon the walls of Zion! to be called Like a watch-worn and weary sentinel, To put his armour off, and rest in heaven!

I'm of the glamorous ladies At whose beckoning history shook. But you are a man, and see only my pan, So I stay at home with a book.

Gratitude - the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world.

Innocence is a desirable thing, a dainty thing, an appealing thing, in its place; but carried too far, it is merely ridiculous.

God loves you and everything about you, so why beat up on your precious self.

[Hospitalized and pressing the nurse's button before dictating letters to her secretary:] This should assure us of at least forty-five minutes of undisturbed privacy.

I wanted to be cute. That's the terrible thing. I should have had more sense.

Art is a form of catharsis.

London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful.

Hippies, hippies... they want to save the world but all they do is smoke pot and play frisbee!

I've learned that all a person has in life is family and friends. If you lose those, you have nothing, so friends are to be treasured more than anything else in the world.

It may be that this autobiography [Aimee Semple McPherson's] is set down in sincerity, frankness, and simple effort. It may be, too, that the Statue of Liberty is situated in Lake Ontario.

ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.

The inner life of any great thing will be incomprehensible to me until I develop and deepen an inner life of my own.

... rarely if ever does one feel sure one knows enough to go ahead with much of anything new. You bank on faith and courage and the ability to learn on the job.

I would like a nice, powerful, mind-altering substance. Preferably one that will make my unborn children grow gills.

Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.

A list of authors who have made themselves most beloved and therefore, most comfortable financially, shows that it is our national joy to mistake for the first-rate, the fecund rate.

I look at melody as rhythm.

Yet, if he would, man cannot live all to this world. If not religious, he will be superstitious. IF he worship not the true God, he will have his idols.

I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like

But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake

If I have a Sunday free, I'll go up the coast and spend some time on the beach. I scuba dive and swim and sail. A lot of the things I like are around the water.

For me, family has always come first.

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart...

All those writers who write about their own childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me.

My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.

Gertrude Stein did us the most harm when she said, 'You're all a lost generation.' That got around to certain people and we all said, 'Whee! We're lost.

I don't think I would take the game with the same mentality that I do now if I hadn't been injured.

I know that there are things that never have been funny, and never will be. And I know that ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.

I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine.

You do show after show after show and get them done and on the air. Television devours material. We work a minimum of 12, 14 hours, and often 15, 18 hours a day.

You can now be a master of your own destiny. I'm not sure why you would sign up with a record label.

Silence is a figure of speech, unanswerable, short, cold, but terribly severe.

Guido Natso is natso guido.