Parsifal's Quotes

#1. I guess I was seeking some balance in the wildlife of the city as Rachel Carson sought it in nature. In unbalanced times, balance is as difficult to come by as Parsifal's Grail.

Studs Terkel

#2. Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Don Marquis

#3. It's exciting to watch young children read poetry for the first time. You can sense the wheels turning and you just know their brain is doing this wonderful thing called learning. It's magical!

Elaine Grey

#4. I must be alive," Gawain said hoarsely. "Dead doesn't hurt this much.

Gerald Morris

#5. Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we can make models of it, but it can only be experienced as a complete whole.

Maya Lin

#6. Tomorrow isn't better than today ~ yet.

Robert Marcin

#7. In Parsifal: You see, my son, here time turns into space.

Philip K. Dick

#8. I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.

Laurence Sterne

#9. And I feel that filmmakers ought to be careful with the use of 3D. Because if you look back over the decades, you see that 3D has come and gone for I don't know how many years now.

Warwick Davis

#10. I just keep fighting and try to be the last one standing.

Li Na

#11. Nothing comforted Sabine like long division. That was how she had passed time waiting for Phan and then Parsifal to come back from their tests. She figured the square root of the date while other people knit and read. Sabine blamed much of the world's unhappiness on the advent of calculators.

Ann Patchett

#12. It'd be cool if God gave everyone a Do Over Day and you could yell "Do Over!" and the day would start new.

Simone Elkeles

#13. Parsifal is on his way to the temple of the Grail Knights and says: "I hardly move, yet far I seem to have come", and the all-knowing Gurnemanz replies: "You see, my son, time turns here into space

Richard Wagner

#14. I work to Glenn Gould in the morning and go to sleep listening to Parsifal.

Patti Smith

#15. I am writing Parsifal only for my wife - if I had to depend on the German spirit, I should have nothing more to say.

Richard Wagner

#16. I can see Richard Wagner standing at the gates of heaven. "You have to let me in," he says. "I wrote Parsifal. It has to do with the Grail, Christ, suffering, pity and healing. Right?" And they answer, "Well, we read it and it makes no sense." SLAM.

Philip K. Dick

#17. Actors are inherently self-centered.

Bryan Cranston

#18. In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.

Boris Pasternak

#19. My father went to Rutgers, and I grew up in New Jersey, so I'm a great Rutgers fan. I have season tickets.

Peter Eisenman

#20. I really love diving in, head first, with directing and not having to worry about hair, makeup or lines.

Chris Lowell