S. N. Parker Quotes

we certainly do not want to abolish power, that would be abolishing life itself, but we need a new orientation toward it.

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.

... good intentions are not sufficient to solve our problems.

My personal philosophy is, you can be sure of nothing.

The manager cannot share his power with division superintendent or foreman or workman, but he can give them opportunities for developing their power.

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane.

I'm an anti-industrial kind of guy.

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?

The great basis of the Christian faith is compassion; do not dismiss that from your hearts, neither will your Maker.

There is no way forward without ending the occupation.

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.

Trying to be a man is a waste of a woman?

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.

It is entirely possible that Limbaugh himself never needed contraception in college, but virtue in the absence of opportunity is hardly a moral triumph.

Want and wealth equally harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike drive away nature from the heart of man.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song

The joy of heaven will begin as soon as we attain the character of heaven, and do its duties.

Oh, both my shoes are shiny new, And pristine is my hat My dress is 1922… My life is all like that.

Intellect is stronger than cannon.

The earnestness of life is the only passport to satisfaction of life.

Jerry Bruckheimer creates comedy, he just doesn't realize because he's a turd.

The diamond which shines in the Saviour's crown shall burn in unquenched beauty at last on the forehead of every human soul.

Accursed from their birth they be Who seek to find monogamy, Pursuing it from bed to bed— I think they would be better dead.

It's easy to be beautiful - just be born that way.

It takes me six months to do a story. I think it out and then write it sentence by sentence - no first draft. I can't write five words but that I change seven.

My first serious girlfriend, when I was 16, was Mormon. I went to her house for 'family home evening,' and I was like, 'Why aren't you people ignoring each other and watching television?'

Even from the very beginning, I didn't put any money in the stock market.

Bargaining makes you come up with the best ideas.

Gray hats are the ones who think they're doing good, but they're not. You learn that when the FBI shows up on your doorstep.

I've never been much of a joiner.

There is no simple answer to what I think.

You actually don't want people thinking your product is cool, because then you're a fad.

There's a lot of artists whose contracts are written in such a way that they do not get paid for what's happening on streaming services.

Come little children, I'll take thee away into a Land of Enchantment. Come little children, the time's come to play here in my Garden of Magic.

Democracy is self-creating coherence.

~As a working mother high heels don't really fit into my life anymore - but in a totally wonderful way. I would much rather think about my son than myself.~

Fashion is not a luxury, it's a right

To be in a couple, do you have to put your single self on a shelf?

Boys do what they want to do, Men do what they need to do.

Can you make a mistake and miss your fate?

We created a brand for ourselves, so that now people can't get mad at what we do, because then they're just making of themselves.

The Eskimos have hundreds of word for snow but we've invented three times that many words for relationships. What really defines a relationship?

The firsts go away - first love, first kiss, first baby. You have to create new ones.

Your biggest challenge as an entrepreneur is not concealing your idea from others or keeping your idea a secret, it is actually convincing people that you're not crazy and that you can pull this off.

Be not familiar with the idea of wrong, for sin in fancy mothers many an ugly fact.

I lived on couches for something like six months. I had no home. I was totally broke. I would stay at a friend's house for two weeks, then move because I didn't want to become this permanent mooch.

If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit; We all assume that Oscar said it.

If I were worried about my reputation, I wouldn't do anything with start-ups

I developed a really strong work ethic, and I don't take anything for granted.

I know that he, Matthew Broderick, doesn't have his laundry done, and that he hasn't had a hot meal in days. That stuff weighs on my mind.