S. N. Parker Quotes

Disappointment is often the salt of life.

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.

Her big heart did not, as is so sadly often the case, inhabit a big bosom.

We need a coat with two pockets. In one pocket there is dust, and in the other pocket there is gold. We need a coat with two pockets to remind us who we are.

I think it's like the '60s - we're going to see another revolution in film where these new filmmakers stand up and take ownership of what film is and mould it into what they want.

The sun's gone dim, and the moon's gone black. For I loved him, and he didn't love back.

Hold your pen and spare your voice.

How easily we get trapped in that which is not essential - in looking good, winning at competition, gathering power and wealth - when simply being alive is the gift beyond measure.

When it comes to life and love, why do we believe our worst reviews?

Men who are too good looking are never good in bed because they never had to be.

Something is cool until everyone thinks it's cool.

The insight to see possible new paths, the courage to try them, the judgment to measure results - these are the qualities of a leader.

When science advances religion goes along with it; science builds the altar at which religion prays.

For me, teaching is about weaving a web of connectedness between myself, my students, the subject I'm teaching, and the larger world.

I have sketched since a young age, so there's always been an artistic side, a visual side to my personality.

Politics is activity in relation to power

It's an Afghanistan goat, so it can't stay here, or else it'll choke on the sweet air of freedom.

Don't let anyone or anything rob you of the beauty and meaning at the heart of life. It's your birthright gift.

And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.

Gratitude is a nice touch of beauty added last of all to the countenance. Giving a classic beauty, an angelic loveliness, to the character.

The divorce of our so-called spiritual life from our daily activities is a fatal dualism.

I'm curious about everything, except what people have to say about me.

Leftist ideas are a part of the very atmosphere which American youth breathes

You want people using your product because it's a part of your life, then they can't stop using it.

A Great Movie Evolves when Everybody Has the Same Vision in Their Heads.

I'm very glad to have met you. I like your playing very much.

Power-over is resorted to time without number because people will not wait for the slower process of education.

There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.

I still have a lot of room for improvement. I need to become a more skilled player.

I kept thinking there's bound to be something else? I could hear it sometimes, but I couldn't play it.

The rain is playing its soft pleasant tune fitfully on the skylight, and the shade of the fast-flying clouds across my book passed with delicate change.

I've always followed the rule that anything worth doing is worth doing excessively.

Sadly, black people disassociate ourselves from the things which make us who we are, identifying them as lesser, or inferior. It's a form of self hate.

Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.

September is pantyhose month. No nonsense.

I see Santa Claus and Joseph Smith and Luke Skywalker as the same person.

There's only a certain amount of works you can make, so you have to make only the ones you really want to make. It's all about trying to be as productive as possible.

In France, if you talk to little boys, they know all of the NBA players and not one single Pro A player.

The end and aim of all education is the development of character.

Leader and followers are both following the invisible leader-the common purpose.

One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Politics is the science of urgencies.

I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey

The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.

Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful. So you might as well live.

When a relationship dies do we ever really give up the ghost or are we forever haunted by the spirits of relationships past?

I focus on things that are the highest value and do them perfectly.

Connection and connectedness are other words for community and communion.

Is the life I'm living the life that wants to live in me?

She can sit up and beg, and she can give her paw — I don't say she will, but she can.