Parrington Quotes

#1. conundrums in biology: this is the fact that our genes, which supposedly define us as a species, but also distinguish you or I or anyone else on the planet from each other, make up only 2 per cent of our DNA. The other 98 per cent had been written off as 'junk';

John Parrington

#2. The telephone was a sign of being rushed.

David Halberstam

#3. Amos will be murdered by space hookers, but at least he'll die the way he lived.

James S.A. Corey

#4. I'm not insane, sir. I have a finely calibrated sense of acceptable risk.

John Scalzi

#5. When I started acting almost 50 years ago, it wasn't about fame. It was about acting.

Maggie Smith

#6. [On her mastectomy:] Pity is delicious. I was crazy about the pity I got. It was the best kind, too. I did not get, nor did I want, the drooling, mewing kind. I preferred something more restrained but deep-felt. Quality pity.

Betty Rollin

#7. More sensitive than others in the beginning, we have to develop the will, the stamina, the determination, and the insensitivity to take critical abuse. A good writer, therefore, does well to see himself as a strong, weak person, full of brave timidity, sensitive and insensitive.

Norman Mailer

#8. I was very adept at acquiring languages.

Anna Held

#9. You must always do what you feel is right.

Vidal Sassoon

#10. Unbecoming forwardness oftener proceeds from ignorance than impudence.

Sir Fulke Greville