S. N. Parker Quotes
My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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 would like a nice, powerful, mind-altering substance. Preferably one that will make my unborn children grow gills.
... 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.
The inner life of any great thing will be incomprehensible to me until I develop and deepen an inner life of my own.
It costs me never a stab nor squirm / To tread by chance upon a worm. / Aha, my little dear, / I say, Your clan will pay me back one day.
We listen for guidance everywhere except from within.
Science requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known.
Such a large sweet fruit is a complete marriage, that it needs a very long summer to ripen in and then a long winter to mellow and season it.
The whole sum and substance of human history may be reduced to this maxim: that when man departs from the divine means of reaching the divine end, he suffers harm and loss.
The great basis of the Christian faith is compassion; do not dismiss that from your hearts, neither will your Maker.
These are the people who do studies that your carry-out Chinese meals are saturated in fat. I'd just like to meet them! I mean, what do they do for pleasure?
No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane.
The manager cannot share his power with division superintendent or foreman or workman, but he can give them opportunities for developing their power.
Prince or commoner, tenor or bass, Painter or plumber or never-do-well, Do me a favor and shut your face - Poets alone should kiss and tell.
we certainly do not want to abolish power, that would be abolishing life itself, but we need a new orientation toward it.
College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I'd have flunked out sooner.
We can never catch up with life ... we shall always be eating the soft part of our melting ice and meanwhile the nice hard part is rapidly melting too.
I got thrown out of school several weeks in my senior year being caught in the girls' dorm. This was 1954, friends. The girls' dorm was off limits. Even to girls, I think.
It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.
Liberalism is a most important by-product of Rationalism, and its origins and ideology must be clearly shown
If there's something strange in your neighborhood, who you gonna call? Ghost Busters.
The 19th century was the age of Individualism the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism.
No virtue fades out of mankind. Not over-hopeful by inborn temperament, cautious by long experience, I yet never despair of human virtue.