George Parks Quotes

#1. Believe it or not, I worked four summers in college as a sports writer covering baseball for a parks and rec department in Bayonne, N.J.

George R R Martin

#2. You're not going to hear me singing songs about Wall Street because I don't know anything about that.

Jason Aldean

#3. There is dust enough on some of your Bibles to write 'damnation' with your fingers.

Charles Spurgeon

#4. Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong.

George Carlin

#5. The way you become happy is by realizing that there is no self. No self at all, not a silly millimeter of self. You don't exist. When you know this, you will be happy.

Frederick Lenz

#6. Betrayal ... is my favorite subject.

Norman Jewison

#7. Unsolved problems are where you'll find opportunity. Energy is one sector with extremely urgent unsolved problems.

Peter Thiel

#8. Like Thomas Hardy with his Casterbridge, my own fictional Pennington is based on a well-known English county town, which I embellish with buildings, parks, and houses from my imagination.

Catherine George

#9. My view is that science only has something to say about a very particular notion of God, which goes by the name of 'god of the gaps'.

Brian Greene

#10. I wouldn't mind an original letter from Napoleon to Josephine - in the early days, his letters arrived torn to pieces because he was overwhelmed by his passion for her.

Kate Williams

#11. Parks are but pavement disguised with a growth of grass.

George Gissing

#12. The idea is that angel investors are supposed to be wealthy people supporting people who need funds, typically who are not wealthy, and don't have the ability to do it themselves.

Jason Calacanis

#13. I'd somehow managed to get an executive stuck in a tree. Instead of a saucer of milk and 'Here kitty, kitty, kitty,' someone might want to bring a hedge fund and a recording of George Bush promising 'No new taxes.

Michael Gurnow

#14. Lots of ballplayers have their own personal music blasted by the sound systems in modern ball parks.

George Vecsey

#15. Ideally, you would live in an area that is not necessarily in the middle of the country, out in the woods, because you can isolate yourself there and get stuck in your own thoughts.

Frederick Lenz

#16. Hello, everyone." I didn't think lying was an option, appearing as I did, so I told the truth. "I've come to kill you all. It would be much easier if you would kindly stand still.

Scarlett Dawn

#17. If anyone stays away (after the 1981 strike), my response is this - those people had no right to ever come to the park, because they aren't true baseball fans.

George Brett

#18. When we have anger in us, we suffer. When we have discrimination in us, we suffer. When we have the complex of superiority, we suffer. When we have the complex of inferiority, we suffer also. So when we are capable of transforming these negative things in us, we are free and happiness is possible.

Nhat Hanh

#19. Whoever we understand, we love.

Deepak Chopra

#20. The "modern man" has "come of age" as a deadly serious adult, conscious of his sufferings and alienations but not of joy, of sex but not of love, of science but not of "mystery.

Alexander Schmemann