S. N. Parker Quotes

Love of truth will bless the lover all his days; yet when he brings her home, his fair-faced bride, she comes empty-handed to his door, herself her only dower.

What a joy is there in a good book, writ by some great master of thought, who breaks into beauty as in summer the meadow into grass and dandelions and violets, with geraniums and manifold sweetness.

A life merely of pleasure, or chiefly of pleasure, is always a poor and worthless life.

It's all based on saying the shocking thing. We used to have a great time going to Hollywood parties and saying 'I think George Bush is doing a great job.' We'd clear out the room. I used to love it.

Once you have kids, you think like a parent. You get a lot more protective.

You don't need missionaries in Colorado; you got Colorado.

I would let my kids watch this stuff way before I'd let them watch something like 'Full House' that I think would make them stupid.

Most of us have to think worst-case scenario.

There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.

Now to me, Edith looks like something that would eat her young.

If I had a shiny gun I could have a world of fun Speeding bullets through the brains Of the folks that cause me pains :)

I think sometimes the stars align whether we want them to or not. And we're drawn to certain people and places for no other reason than...Destiny.

Secretly, deep down, everybody on Earth believes they can write poetry, apart from the members of the Poets' Guild, who know they can't.

As the Promethean fire which banished Darkness, so Knowledge bears the Power and the Light.

I took my .38 out and looked to see that there were bullets in all the proper places. I knew there would be, but it did no harm to be careful. And I'd seen Clint Eastwood do it once in the movies.

Blessed are the joymakers.

The unifying of opposites is the eternal process.

There is no such thing as vicarious experience.

My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward.

My humor is a lot like Kristen Wiig's from 'Saturday Night Live' or 'Bridesmaids.' Quirky, off the beaten path.

I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.

Being away from home was tough, but the challenge and the thrill of being on Broadway was so fulfilling, and I'm thankful to my husband for making it possible and holding it down at home.

I think growing up in a big family taught me a lot of problem solving and how to share and compromise, and that's been helpful in my marriage.

Not just as a black woman, but as a woman, since the beginning of time, beauty has been our responsibility.

My mother is a beauty.

My daughter has a vivid imagination, and so does my son.

From my first dunk at 14 years old to my second NCAA Championship at the University of Tennessee, my intense training with my dad was always to credit.

Film-making is a physically hard job.

I turn on the TV sometimes, start watching something and think: 'This seems quite good, a bit familiar.' Then I realise … It's one of my movies. It's a pretty odd feeling.

A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.

I've always been completely autocratic. I've never learned to be diplomatic or democratic.

I was once described by one of my critics as an aesthetic fascist.

I'm a pluralist. I've always argued that as many different films as possible should be made.

If you'd been where I'd been... if you'd seen the things I'd seen!... you... you'd be me... Or someone following me around.

It doesn't matter what the technology is - no one will watch a Peter Greenaway film anyway.

I'm always afraid someone's going to tap me on the shoulder one day and say, 'Back to North London'.

The films that I do tend to polarise people's views.

Making a film is so hard that if you don't have your main actors going along with the ride with the rest of the crew it can make your life very difficult.

Theater will always be my first love. The time and dedication that goes into the rehearsal process with the cast and crew is something that TV/Movie acting does not offer.

Male athletes don't get dropped when they father kids.

It will be exciting to have my child share my career and to remember what I was like when I was young.

My baby is the joy in my life.

The Sparks have always been committed to success and making the right moves to build upon their rich tradition in the WNBA.

You want your coach's blessing.

N.Y. Chamber of Commerce Urges Passage of Silver For War Use.

If you want to act, you have to devote yourself to it. Send out letters and photos every day, work all the hours under the sun, whatever it takes. If you're not determined, you won't get anywhere.

I've done quite a few adverts. I've also done some presenting and acting work in Spain. I did a lot of Spanish education videos for people wanting to learn English.

My parents couldn't afford a full time drama school, but I basically just did every class I could do, and followed every drama interest I could. When I was 15 or 16 I did drama courses.

Cry down materialism all you will, surely one of the thoroughly satisfactory sensations of this world is to feel financially independent.

Trout fishing is like any other sport. It is waste of words to try to give anyone who has never tried it any idea of what it means to land a five-pound trout on a gossamer leader.