S. N. Parker Quotes

Humility is the only lens though which great things can be seen--and once we have seen them, humility is the only posture possible.

The day when I am satisfied with what I have, will be the day I retire from the sport.

The ones I like are ‘cheque’ and ‘enclosed.’

The landscape you grow up in speaks to you in a way that nowhere else does.

Even if you're not Christian, just from being in our culture you know Jesus and resurrection and redemption.

We find just as many things to rip on the left as we do on the right. People on the far-left and the far-right are the same exact person to us.

No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than America's youth.

To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them

It's more important to be in right relationship than it is to be right.

Alliance does not mean love, any more than war means hate

It's this simple law, which every writer knows, of taking two opposites and putting them in a room together. I love anything with Cartman and Butters at the same time, it's great.

In a relationship, when does the art of compromise become compromising?

Mrs. Ewing was a short woman who accepted the obligation borne by so many short women to make up in vivacity what they lack in number of inches from the ground.

When an artist becomes complacent, he dies.

That which is called liberality is frequently nothing more than the vanity of giving.

Another idea that is changing is that the leader must be one who can make quick decisions. The leader to-day is often one who thinks out his decisions very slowly.

It's just music. It's playing clean and looking for the pretty notes.

Well, there are always those who cannot distinguish between glitter and glamour . . . the glamour of Isadora Duncan came from her great, torn, bewildered, foolhardy soul.

On lady novelists: As artists they're rot, but as providers they're oil wells; they gush. Norris said she never wrote a story unless it was fun to do. I understand Ferber whistles at her typewriter.

Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.

California lacks a lot of the rules and restrictions the East has. Every house is a different style, different material, different color. There's a lot of craziness out there

I shudder at the thought of men.... I'm due to fall in love again

Conflict is resolved not through compromise, but through invention.

The real business of life is trying to understand each other.

She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.

Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.

The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence.

The taste forever refines in the study of women.

You just keep pushing yourself harder and harder to achieve more and more - I don't think it's ever quite as glamorous as it appears on the outside.

If you're a nice person and you work hard, you get to go shopping at Barneys. It's the decadent reward.

People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.

All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don't catch horses going around looking like people, do you?

They tire of quiet, that have known the storm

Little startups are ridiculously overfunded.

I can sort of do what I want. Maybe I have to work harder to prove myself in some new relationship because they've heard some wacky stories about me. But at least I can get the meeting.

I might repeat to myself . . . a list of quotations from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things.

This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.

[On an actor who'd broken her leg in London:] Oh, how terrible. She must have done it sliding down a barrister.

I've never been a fan of presidents who place blame on their predecessors or who accept credit for events that couldn't have been engineered so soon in their tenure.

I want my inner truth to be the plumb line for the choices I make about my life - about the work that I do and how I do it, about the relationships I enter into and how I conduct them.

Ever since Napster I've dreamt of building a product similar to Spotify.

Mentoring is a mutuality that requires more than meeting the right teacher: the teacher must meet the right student.

... the stranger is not a threat but an opportunity to grow in my view of reality, to grow in my own sense of possibility

Bad directors will tell you they absolutely know how to do it, and how it has to happen; there's this insecurity that leads them to feeling like they have to control everything.

The main trouble with this civilized world isn't that we adventure too much, but that we fail to adventure enough.

Coincidence exists, but believing in it never did me any good.

Trying to convince someone that they are a racist or they have White Privilege - if it's in the air they breathe and the culture supports them, sometimes they never have to think about it at all.

I was lucky to have been born with cheekbones.

Some guys said 'Here's bop!' Wham! They said, 'Here's something we can make money on!' Wham! 'Here's a comedian!' Wham! Here's a guy who talks funny talk!'

Disappointment is often the salt of life.