Parkers Back Quotes

#1. From the moral as from the intellectual point of view, the child is born neither good nor bad but master of his destiny.

Jean Piaget

#2. I was interested in the electric guitar even before I knew the difference between electric and acoustic. The electric guitar seemed to be a totally fascinating plank of wood with knobs and switches on it. I just had to have one.

Jeff Beck

#3. Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation.

Robert A. Heinlein

#4. There are two MFA programs here at the University of Texas, and I read on the jury of both of them. And it's amazing to me how many really talented young writers seem to fear humor.

Elizabeth McCracken

#5. Women dream till they have no longer the strength to dream; those dreams against which they so struggle, so honestly, vigorously, and conscientiously, and so in vain, yet which are their
life, without which they could not have lived; those dreams go at last.

Florence Nightingale

#6. Every book you've ever read is just a different combination of 26 letters.

Unknown

#7. You're a pretty cool customer, huh?" says Agent Hunt.
"I hide my inner pain under my stoic visage."
Agent Hunt looks like he would like to put his fist through my stoic visage.

Holly Black

#8. I'm pretty sure people thought I was like a dope rapper.

Big Pun

#9. I was very fortunate to have learned the transforming power of music early in life. As an adult I want to share that power by inspiring people to care about their neighbors near and far. Being a UNICEF Ambassador allows me this kind of opportunity.

India.Arie

#10. Our terminal decline into old age and death stems from the fine print of the contract that we signed with our mitochondria two billion years ago.

Nick Lane

#11. Our art is cynical and bad-ass and made by people who will not be happy until you join them in the church of "everything is fucked up, so throw up your hands." This is art as anesthesia.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#12. The precious silence was prolonged with a sweet kiss.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#13. Acting in a stage play is like working the evening shift in an office.

Arthur Smith

#14. The old woman was the kind who would not cut down a large old tree because it was a large old tree.

Flannery O'Connor

#15. I am one of the five best parallel parkers in the United States of America. Dead serious. It's to the point now where I look back when pulling into the spot only as a formality.

Willie Geist

#16. I don't."
"Don't what?" She asked, somewhat puzzled.
"I don't know many things. The only thing I know is that I know nothing.

Grace Fiorre

#17. He and the girl had almost nothing to say to each other. One thing he did say was, 'I ain't got any tattoo on my back.'
'What you got on it?' the girl said.
'My shirt,' Parker said. 'Haw.'
'Haw, haw,' the girl said politely.

Flannery O'Connor

#18. Get in over your head
as often and as joyfully
as possible.

Alexander Isley