S. N. Parker Quotes

There's something about being in the country that makes you stick out like a sore thumb ? you're an anomaly. But in London there's always someone wilder and woollier.

Don't feel bad when I die; I've been dead for a long time.

Anthologists are lazy fellows who like to spend a quiet evening at home raiding good books.

At birth the Devil touched my tongue.

Benchley and I had an office in the old Life magazine that was so tiny, if it were an inch smaller it would have been adultery.

Authors and actors and artists and such - Never know nothing, and never know much.

It's easier to write about those you hate — just as it's easier to criticize a bad play or a bad book.

The Swiss are a neat and an industrious people, none of whom is under seventy-five years of age.

Then if my friendships break and bend, There's little need to cry The while I know that every foe Is faithful till I die.

Sometimes I think I'll give up trying, and just go completely Russian and sit on a stove and moan all day.

Scratch a king and find a fool!

The House Beautiful is the play lousy.

Everybody's got their troubles.

Be you wise and never sad, You will get your lovely lad. Never serious be, nor true, And your wish will come to you-- And if that makes you happy, kid, You'll be the first it ever did.

I wish, I wish I were a poisonous bacterium.

There was nothing separate about her days. Like drops on the window-pane, they ran together and trickled away.

[To the British actor who annoyed her by repeated references to his busy 'shedule':] I think you're full of skit.

He lies below, correct in cypress wood, And entertains the most exclusive worms.

Hollywood is one place in the world where you can die of encouragement.

I know that an author must be brave enough to chop away clinging tentacles of good taste for the sake of a great work. But this is no great work, you see.

[On Lou Tellegen's Women Have Been Kind:] The book ... has all the elegance of a quirked little finger and all the glitter of a pair of new rubbers.

We need to do stuff we've always done, even though you might not like it.

But paying is part of the game of life: it is the joy of buying that we crave.

The object of punishment is to... lift the man up; to stamp out his bad nature and wicked disposition.

I am the most misunderstood and misrepresented of men. Misrepresented because misunderstood.

The enemy is never more unnerving than when he's invisible.

If there's a truth and nobody knows it, is it still true? Or is it like a light burning in a locked, shuttered house that nobody will ever get to see?

Great nations don't have to remind others of their greatness. They merely have to be great.

People in positions of power and privilege have a duty to perform at a higher level. If not them, then who?

The state accumulates moral power only through the spiritual activity of their citizens.

Majority rule rests on numbers; democracy rests on the well-grounded assumption that society is neither a collection of units nor an organism but a network of human relations.

... orders come from the work, not work from the orders.

One person's crazy is another person's refreshing.

It's hard for black women to ask for help. We think we don't need it. We're used to being in pain and living with it.

For the women out there that I've hurt with my male privilege, I'm sorry.

The perfect world, by Adam trod, Was the first temple--built by God-- His fiat laid the corner stone, And heaved its pillars, one by one.

You're talking to someone, to a reader, and you get to express in the way you want to. And you get to play with it. It's kind of like acting, but it's on paper.

I don't have a publisher yet, so I'm not in the process of that next stage and I don't know what that's going to look like. So I feel like I finished stage one [with my book].

What I do is not some magical, mystical thing. I simply get up in the morning, get to work on time, say my lines, and do the best I can

You're just looking for the thing that makes this scene sort of imperative, why you have to know what changes by the end of the scene so you're really looking to find the essence of it.

Hydrogeology is not a simple discipline, .. It's full of variables that are always changing.

You can’t stop being who you are because you’re afraid.

Most important to me is my home life and the well-being of my children.

I expect I should be more calloused by now, but I am so sensitive about not ever living up to anybody's worst idea about an actor who is well-known.

I thought if I had straight hair and a perfect nose, my whole career would be different.

I eat everything. I'm just an eater. If it's free, I honestly eat everything.

There are occasions that I love to be fashionable and enjoy, you know? But the work day of a mother doesn't include a hair making team or any consideration of your shoe.

Religion without joy-it is no religion.

Great success is a great temptation.

What sad faces one always sees in the asylums for orphans! It is more fatal to neglect the heart than the head.