Top 100 Parsons Quotes
#1. People are always surprised at what a nice guy I am.
Tony Parsons
#2. I hate Nassau and the Bahamas. It's one of those places I'd always wanted to visit since reading Ian Fleming but it was full of casinos with Americans in shorts.
Tony Parsons
#4. As a kid, I was obsessed with myths and legends and the haunting beauty of gothic stories.
Nathan Parsons
#5. I feel like I'm a confident dude, so I feel like I can get away with wearing something bold.
Chandler Parsons
#7. My first professional relationship, I danced with the Parsons Dance Company, and David Parsons, my former boss, allowed me to choreograph on the company.
Robert Battle
#8. But I'm concerned about security." My response to that is simple: "Security is for cadavers.
Bob Parsons
#9. Formerly the master selected the slave; today the slave selects his master.
Albert Parsons
#10. My principal motivation is supporting my family, which is not a bad reason for getting up in the morning. That's always been my motivation - to take care of the people who rely on me.
Tony Parsons
#11. The TV schedule is essentially four or five days to get in touch with the story you're doing that week.
Jim Parsons
#12. My parents have been dead for many years, and when your folks are gone there is nobody standing between you and eternity.
Tony Parsons
#13. I know she is of the Devil, for I cannot have my mind from her." From trial transcript of accuser of Mary Bliss Parsons.
Kathy-Ann Becker
#14. I would like to apologize for the rocking of this boat, but we are currently being humped by a whale.
Andy Parsons
#15. If a girl is smiling and is bringing positive energy and she's happy, that's what I notice right away - and her teeth.
Chandler Parsons
#16. I came from a family in Texas who simply never spoke about money.
Jim Parsons
#17. If, in the present chaotic and shameful struggle for existence, when organized society offers a premium on greed, cruelty, and deceit, men can be found who stand aloof and almost alone in their determination to work for good rather than gold
Lucy Parsons
#18. I've never mentioned this, but when I was at Parsons teaching, the other design disciplines, they don't like fashion design. They see it as very nineteenth-century.
Tim Gunn
#19. I am all for cracking down on inappropriate digital behaviour. Too often the connected world is an excuse for some coward hiding behind a keyboard to bully someone else.
Tony Parsons
#20. I remember When I was a star In the night A moving, burning ember Amid the bright Clouds of star fire Going deathward To the womb. - JOHN WHITESIDE PARSONS, untitled
George Pendle
#21. The Stones are not the world's greatest band. Not even the world's second greatest band. What they are is the world's most overrated band. And it wasn't Keith or Mick who wrote "Wild Horses". It was Gram Parsons.
Jo Nesbo
#22. I basically look like a lot of modern Orthodox people you know, but I work on a TV show where I sometimes have to kiss Jim Parsons. That's why I don't take on the title of modern Orthodox, but in terms of ideology and theology I pretty much sound like a liberal modern Orthodox person.
Mayim Bialik
#23. It's funny. You love something and one day it's suddenly gone or changed or lost forever. But somehow that doesn't stop your loving. Maybe that's how you know it's the real thing.
Tony Parsons
#24. The main concern of the study is with the outline of a theoretical system. Its minor variations from writer to writer are not a matter of concern to this analysis.
Talcott Parsons
#25. I like time off because I also have a life outside of theater.
Estelle Parsons
#26. All that we do is governed by the law of opposites in which every so-called positive act is exactly and equally balanced by its opposite.;
Tony Parsons
#27. There is some sadness for me now about acting because it used to be that there was a reverence for actors.
Estelle Parsons
#28. I never, ever want to be in a position where people are sitting round a table, saying, 'We've got this book. I don't really get it, but we paid for it, so we've got to sell it.' I'm not Tony Parsons; that's not right for me.
Michel Faber
#29. pleased to observe, that you submit to reason and necessity without indulging useless complaint. I applaud this conduct exceedingly, the more, perhaps, since it discovers a strength of mind seldom observable in your sex.
Eliza Parsons
#30. My parents gave up a lot to bring me up in the little house on the prairie, and I wasn't prepared to make those sacrifices, nor was the generation before me and the generation after.
Tony Parsons
#31. I'm married to a white man, and then my daughter came out looking like the whitest white child with blonde hair and blue eyes. And I'm like, 'Omigosh, now what am I going to do?' She has my mom's features and is lighter than my husband. And my boy is browner than I am. Brown eyes and really tan.
Karyn Parsons
#32. My hiatus timeline is so minimal, there's only a select number of projects that I can go in for.
Jim Parsons
#33. Societies that eat unrefined foods produce large stools and build small hospitals; societies that eat fiber-depleted foods produce small stools and build large hospitals.
Denis Parsons Burkitt
#34. The hypothesis may be put forward, to be tested by the s subsequent investigation, that this development has been in large part a matter of the reciprocal interaction of new factual insights and knowledge on the one hand with changes in the theoretical system on the other.
Talcott Parsons
#35. You see a whole bunch of different looks in the NBA. Guys, like LeBron, have stylists now, and they do their own thing. Then you have Russell Westbrook, whose style is a little different. Every guy is wearing outfits to show their personality.
Chandler Parsons
#36. Let's be honest. There's not a business anywhere that is without problems. Business is complicated and imperfect. Every business everywhere is staffed with imperfect human beings and exists by providing a product or service to other imperfect human beings.
Bob Parsons
#37. Nobody read books, but women, parsons and idle people.
H.G.Wells
#38. Jesus built a ship to sing a song to, it sails the rivers and it sails the tide. Some of my friends don't know who they belong to, some can't get a single thing to work inside.
Gram Parsons
#39. Immediately after the Floyd experience, I became a pop record producer.
Alan Parsons
#41. What this is about is hopefully an opportunity for me to help pave the way for my future in terms of getting financially choosier. You have to plan the windfall as if it'll be your only one.
Jim Parsons
#42. I grew up with two different parakeets - one that lived for five years, and one that lived for 13 years - so I always had a bit of an attraction to birds and it's an oddly good fit to be in a movie about birdwatchers.
Jim Parsons
#44. I once read somewhere that, in any relationship, the one who cares the least is the one with all the power.
Tony Parsons
#45. The thing about cancer is that it can always exceed your worst expectations. There is something pornographic about cancer's ability to confound your imagination. Whatever new obscenity cancer comes up with to torment and torture you, it can always do worse tomorrow.
Tony Parsons
#46. The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.
Talcott Parsons
#47. The ultimate objective of such modern mystery school rituals as the Babalon Working of Parsons, and the Alamantra Working of Crowley, was to produce the age of the Antichrist, also called the Aeon of Horus.
David Flynn
#48. In France, you can sell a lot, but nobody outside of France ever hears of it.
Alan Parsons
#50. Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in vote begging, nor political campaigns, but rather in the development of self-thinking individuals.
Lucy Parsons
#51. [Voicing a cartoon] feels like going down a mysterious but joyful black hole. Once you relax for 15 or 20 minutes, and really go, "I don't care if I look like an ass," it's really fun to see what happens. You know that nothing is being visually judged.
Jim Parsons
#52. I just passed my identification crisis and came back to country music.
Gram Parsons
#53. physical distance between you is not at all important, because our energy is always leading us towards them.
Andrew M. Parsons
#54. Nor is the guilt entirely with the warmongers, plutocrats and demagogues. If people permit exploitation and regimentation in any name, they deserve their slavery. A tyrant does not make his tyranny possible. It is made by the people and not otherwise.
Jack Parsons
#55. I believe that not much happens of any significance when we're in our comfort zone.
Bob Parsons
#56. The frying pan you should give to your enemy. Food should not be prepared in fat. Our bodies are adapted to a stone age diet of roots and vegetables.
Denis Parsons Burkitt
#57. There are three things we have no control over: our birth; our emotions, if we're sincere; and our death.
Betty Parsons
#58. Western doctors are like poor plumbers. They treat a splashing tube by cleaning up the water. These plumbers are extremely apt at drying up the water, constantly inventing new, expensive, and refined methods of drying up water. Somebody should teach them how to close the tap.
Denis Parsons Burkitt
#59. If you are always craving, always wanting, never satisfied, never happy with what you've got, you end up even more lost and lonely than you do ...
Tony Parsons
#60. Playing Sheldon is just heaven for me. I realize how enormously lucky I am to play a role that makes me so incredibly happy. As I told Chuck Lorre in a Christmas card a few years ago, I'm living a version of the dream.
Jim Parsons
#61. I'm not crazy; my mother had me tested
Jim Parsons
#62. I've always loved TV very much, and as a child I was so religious with it, but now it's more when it fits in.
Jim Parsons
#63. You have to give kids from ordinary families a ladder. You have to show them there's a way out.
Tony Parsons
#64. But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.
Talcott Parsons
#65. Theatre was my first love. I can't take the theatre out of me. And I wouldn't want to. To me, it's home.
Jim Parsons
#67. The whole time I've been an actor, from early in Houston, my goal has been to work - to keep doing it. I feel at my most satisfied as a human being when I'm working on a role.
Jim Parsons
#68. I was a folk singer who became totally over the edge with country music. I found my voice and style working with Gram Parsons. I learned how to listen to George Jones records and the Louvin Brothers.
Emmylou Harris
#69. My Emmy competition is awfully good. My stomach is already in knots. The problem is that I don't drink, so I can't calm myself that way. I wish I could be better at pretending I don't care.
Jim Parsons
#70. In L.A., you constantly go on auditions, and you're usually not what they're looking for - you get used to going back and back to the same show, and nothing happens.
Nathan Parsons
#71. If there are four equations and only three variables, and no one of the equations is derivable from the others by algebraic manipulation then there is another variable missing.
Talcott Parsons
#72. It's rare in the NBA, but I have a lot of young female fans from eight to eighteen because of the way I dress and the way I do my hair. People sometimes call me a pretty boy, but I embrace it. It's fun, and I guess it just kind of comes with being a good looking white guy in the league.
Chandler Parsons
#73. I try to find a way that the other guy hasn't thought of using a sound or a sample.
Alan Parsons
#74. Parsons argued that medicine was a social institution that regulated social deviance through the provision of medical diagnoses for nonconforming behavior. Medicine was, in this understanding, engaged in social control.
Sheila Jeffreys
#75. My favorite sci-fi movie of all time is 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.'
Jim Parsons
#76. If someone does something illegal on Twitter - like incite hatred, or make racist remarks, or threaten to rip someone's intestines out if they insult Justin Bieber - then there has to be some way of censuring them.
Tony Parsons
#77. I'm very lighthearted, outgoing, friendly, and funny, so I like to try new things.
Chandler Parsons
#78. Tattoos are so widespread, so ugly and so very, very permanent. You can, in theory, have them removed - but a large chunk of your living flesh will go with it.
Tony Parsons
#79. Like most business people, I want every aspect of my business to be perfect. I know that this goal is unachievable, but it is nevertheless what I strive to achieve .
Bob Parsons
#80. Everything ends. It does. Sooner or later. This - all this - it has to end sometime.
Tony Parsons
#81. Let me whisper my belief, entre nous, that of those eminent philosophers who cry out against parsons the loudest, there are not many who have got their knowledge of the church by going thither often.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#82. The most convincing argument against early parenthood is that you are in a relationship that is likely to fall apart before that child grows up.
Tony Parsons
#83. But today I felt different, today I forgot how long it takes to get into the skin of a character and I remembered it, because today I actually got into that skin and it felt so different.
Estelle Parsons
#84. John Parsons, the gay art director at 'Vogue,' really started my career.
David Bailey
#85. The coming change can only come through a revolution, because the possessing class will not allow a peaceful change to take place; still we are willing to work for peace at any price, except at the price of liberty.
Lucy Parsons
#86. I think intelligence is usually sexy until it becomes irritating. After that, you're stuck.
Jim Parsons
#87. At Harvard, you don't major. You concentrate.
Gram Parsons
#88. My mom has accepted my style. My dad is a little suspect with all the bright colors and loud stuff. He's a khakis and polo kind of guy. He's OK with it, but the loud stuff, he says I'm his little daughter.
Chandler Parsons
#89. We don't wear sequins because we think we're great. We wear them because we think sequins are great.
Gram Parsons
#90. Warm evenings, pale mornings, bottle of blues
Gram Parsons
#91. I will have no Parsons around me but such as drink deep, ride to Hounds and caress the Wives and Daughters of their Parishioners.A Virtuous Parson does nothing to test or exercise the Faith of his Flock.
Aldous Huxley
#92. Like his illustrious predecessor, Parsons did not see the two disciplines of science and magic as contradictory.
George Pendle
#93. A society's apprehensiveness about divorce is an expression of its fear of change and of its resulting desire that personality remain unvarying.
Elsie Clews Parsons
#94. ...at times you can be more self-righteous than a cart-load of parsons.
James Aldridge
#95. It isn't in my nature to cry for very long. It is one of the blessings of my life that things that are past
are past. Yesterday's calamities are merely today's challenge. I can get down
but I can't stay there.
Louella Parsons
#96. Our dourest parsons, who followed the nonconformist fashion of long extemporary prayers, always seemed to me to be bent on bullying God.
J.B. Priestley
#97. Never stop investing. Never stop improving. Never stop doing something new.
Bob Parsons
#98. It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing general statements about it - and, not least, a changing a structure of the theoretical system.
Talcott Parsons
#99. I did have a Twitter account that I tried for a couple days, but found I had nothing to say. There are some interesting facts I could share, but I don't want to share that part of myself.
Jim Parsons
#100. I would say everything in our life in the next 25 years is going to be tied into the Internet, and it's going to be the place for communications, for education, for conducting business and everything.
Bob Parsons
