S. N. Parker Quotes

[When asked what was the inspiration for most of her work:] Need of money, dear.

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

Instead of poor America on socialism becoming more like rich America on capitalism, rich America on capitalism is becoming like poor America on socialism.

The affair between Margot Asquith and Margot Asquith will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature.

Why, after all, should readers never be harrowed? Surely there is enough happiness in life without having to go to books for it.

When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken.

Excuse me, everybody, I have to go to the bathroom. I really have to telephone, but I'm too embarrassed to say so.

I have unlearned contempt; it is a sin that is engendered earliest in the soul, and doth beset it like a poison worm feeding on all its beauty.

There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.

Friends come and go but I wouldn't have thought you'd be one of them

Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.

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

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

The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.

there is a pernicious tendency to make the opinions of the expert prevail by crowd methods, to rush the people instead of educating them.

I want to become the first European floor leader to succeed in the NBA. I want to be the standard-bearer and prove we can succeed here.

The dew waits for no voice to call it to the sun.

You're measured by championships no matter what.

I don't get tired of hearing that somebody liked my work.

I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until I actually start writing it!

True preaching is the sweating of blood.

I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even.

I like people who are enthused about things they do, like travel, sports, work. I like being with people who have things they're excited about.

The key to growing up well, is being tough enough.

I'm not perfect, I'm a flawed man, but I'm willing to try to get better, I'm willing to listen.

Never throw mud. You may miss the mark, and you'll have dirty hands.

I need to take toward a lot of things that will refine me and make me better suited for leading anyone out of any place of injustice to a place of justice.

If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.

The miser, poor fool, not only starves his body, but also his own soul.

I don't think I'm boring.

People should dress the way they want. Any rules for age or shape are silly. If you walk out the door feeling good about yourself, that’s what counts.

It is not opposition but indifference which separates men.

Me and Matt love to argue, but in general our sense of humor is pretty much alike.

I think at this stage in my life I have learned that there are any number of things that men will never know, and can never hope to know, about women.

London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it.

Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.

Good teachers join self and subject and students in the fabric of life.

It is of equal importance with the discovery of facts to know what to do with them.

By choosing integrity, I become more whole, but wholeness does not mean perfection. It means becoming more real by acknowledging the whole of who I am.

I love design, so it's important for me to have a creative outlet.

I find Mormons adorable.

This living, this living, this living Was never a project of mine.

When the leaves turn brown, I'll be wearing the batting crown

Man as a pure animal does not exist

For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them.

I give her sadness and the gift of pain, a new moon madness and a love of rain.

On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.

Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black and white movie.

I'm a work in progress. I'm trying to be better.

When you have to apologize, it is well, I suppose, to get the thing over quickly.