S. N. Parker Quotes

Part of the challenge of being an entrepreneur, if you're going for a really huge opportunity, is trying to find problems that aren't quite on the radar yet and try to solve those

What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.

[On hearing that Clare Boothe Luce was invariably kind to her inferiors:] And where does she find them?

I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.

The man who knows how will always be the student, but the man who knows why will continue to be the instructor.

One of the greatest values of controversy is its revealing nature. The real issues at stake come into the open and have the possibility of being reconciled.

Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night.

Women and elephants never forget.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

The Hardy Boys burned me out. I was recharging my batteries. It was time to return to work, but it was tough because my visibility was low

A happy wedlock is a long falling in love.

All polishing is done by friction.

[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?

Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.

The spiritual life is about becoming more at home in your own skin.

Connecting today is a dialogue.

Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible and calculable.

I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one. . . . But from what I see I am sure it bends toward justice.

Man, there's no boundary line to art!

A scholar is committed to building on knowledge that others have gathered, correcting it, confirming it, enlarging it.

I can play all I know in eight bars.

When I first heard music, I thought it should be very clean, very precise. Something that people could understand, something that was beautiful.

Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.

A million dollars isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? A billion dollars.

I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.

It was written without fear and without research.

Every once in awhile, a girl has to indulge herself.

I want to follow in my father's footsteps, but do it better.

Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials

Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.

Just be the same person you are in the dark that you are in the light.

Look: There's good creepy and there's bad creepy. Today's creepy is tomorrow's necessity.

The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core. Scratch a lover and find a foe!

If I would put my talent on the table, if I would control my impulses, if I would make decisions and plans for my own life, then I could be successful.

Concepts can never be presented to me merely, they must be knitted into the structure of my being, and this can only be done through my own activity.

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. Be true to your own mind and conscience, your heart and your soul. So only can you be true to God.

The ancient human question 'Who am I?' leads inevitably to the equally important question 'Whose am I?' - for there is no self outside of relationship.

It never gets any easier. But I will get stronger. Because my story is far from over.

Nature is man's religious book, with lessons for every day.

Spotify is returning a huge amount of money. We'll overtake iTunes in terms of what we bring to the record industry in under two years.

Of Orson Welles: It's like meeting God without dying.

[On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that's much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.

Giving up on life is easier than going through the hard times to find the good.

Gain confidence and you banish fear.

A leader is a person who must take special responsibility for what's going on inside of himself or herself ... lest the act of leadership create more harm than good.

Every shot that kills ricochets.

There is no college for the conscience.

In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.

Why is it no one sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get one perfect rose.

Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.