Parsed Quotes

#1. I think a lot of parents hand people over a blueprint and say, 'This is how you're supposed to do it.' And my parents, I think, kind of drew a picture and said, 'Here's the good stuff in life. How do you get there?'

Rich Mullins

#2. The physical universe was a language with a perfectly ambiguous grammar. Every physical event was an utterance that could be parsed in two entirely different ways, one casual and the other teleological, both valid, neither one disqualifiable no matter how much context was available.

Ted Chiang

#3. Integrity is an ecosystem.

Michael Leunig

#4. You have every right to hate me for this lifetime and many others. You have every right to never see me again. To spit on my grave. But tonight, now, I'm not going to give up on you or," his voice fell with weight, "die trying.

Karina Halle

#5. The wave rises. The wave falls.

Stephen S. Power

#6. Today you are only a branch of a tree,
tomorrow you gonna be tree yourself,
so prepare yourself today so strong,
that tomorrow you can hold the branches .

Amresh Kumar

#7. I go out to the kitchen to feed the dog, but that's about as much cooking as I do.

Betty White

#8. There is no free speech in football. Information is parsed by monosyllabic head coaches, who dictate who gets to speak to whom and when.

Jane Leavy

#9. I did my English A level in England, and we studied Shakespeare. I had great, great high school teachers, and we parsed the text within an inch of its life.

Joss Whedon

#10. If logic was anything, all men would ride sidesaddles..

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#11. Chris[topher] Reeve wisely parsed the difference between optimism and hope. Unlike optimism, he said, 'Hope is the product of knowledge and the projection of where the knowledge can take us.

Michael J. Fox

#12. Even if my movies weren't big blockbusters, directors generally liked me, so they would fight for me.

Mark Ruffalo

#13. Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick.

Francis Bacon

#14. I don't believe in "writers block." Lower your standards and keep writing. You can always go back later and make it better. Unless your name is Harlan Ellison, in which case your sentences come out perfectly parsed each time.

Marvin J. Wolf

#15. I just want to be really careful with decisions I make. When you make a decision about your career, it changes your life in a really big way.

Michael Cera

#16. Erra pointed at Curran with her thumb. "You want to marry this? Is there a shortage of men?

Ilona Andrews

#17. Metaphors, similes, puns - all manner of metonymy - I'm interested in language that cannot be parsed by a machine - language that can only be understood through acculturation.

Joshua Cohen