Top 100 Parsons Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. Nobody read books, but women, parsons and idle people.
H.G.Wells
#9. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. John Parsons, the gay art director at 'Vogue,' really started my career.
David Bailey
#15. 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
#16. Like his illustrious predecessor, Parsons did not see the two disciplines of science and magic as contradictory.
George Pendle
#17. ...at times you can be more self-righteous than a cart-load of parsons.
James Aldridge
#18. 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
#19. One of the great ball-givers in the United Kingdom is Nicholas Parsons.
Derek Nimmo
#20. I am surrounded here by parsons and methodists, but as you will see, not infested with the mania.
Lord Byron
#22. Ray Parsons, you have no soul", she says, her voice gaining volume as she speaks. "You are a bag of skin. You are a pile of bones. Every cell that has ever split inside of you was a waste of energy. Where you walk you leave a vacuum. Your existence should cease.
Mindy McGinnis
#23. Anarchism has but one infallible, unchangeable motto, "Freedom." Freedom to discover any truth, freedom to develop, to live naturally and fully." - Lucy Parsons
Lucy Parsons
#24. I have my own biography of Gram Parsons - I don't want to be part of somebody else's.
Emmylou Harris
#25. While at Parsons, I interned at Marc Jacobs, which was great. When I graduated, I went to work at J. Crew; that was also really great.
Chris Benz
#26. Nicholas Parsons' time at the University of Glasgow seems to be absolutely shrouded in mystery.
Derek Nimmo
#27. I went to Parsons. American sportswear was my education, and that is what is important to me.
Chris Benz
#28. I've known Nicholas Parsons for a fairly long time and his geniune pleasures are in rubber tubes, metal clips
Clement Freud
#29. I discovered the same thing Gram Parsons did, that soul music and country music are practically identical. Based off of the same chord structures, and the songs are of heartache and loss. The main connection is they both came up in church.
Justin Townes Earle
#30. Parsons always seem to be specially horrified about things like sunbathing and naked bodies. They don't mind poverty and misery and cruelty to animals nearly as much.
Susan Ertz
#31. Some people in this life really enjoy being sent up and Nicholas Parsons is one of them because he's a sadomasochist.
Derek Nimmo
#32. It's fucking lame, is what it is! The swords look like they were made out of tinfoil. And that soundtrack is epically lame. Full of synthesizers and shit. By the motherfucking Alan Parsons Project! Lame-o-rama! Beyond lame. Highlander II lame.
Ernest Cline
#33. I used to sit in bed at night and flip through design-school catalogs. I found out that Parsons accepted a small number of high school juniors, so I applied my sophomore year and got in.
Chris Benz
#34. graduated from Parsons The New School for Design and illustrates a wide range of projects. She grew up in New York City and lives in Florida. Learn more
Sarah O'Leary Burningham
#35. It's past parsons to console us: No, nor no doctor fetch for me: I can die without my bolus; Two of a trade, lass, never agree! Parson and Doctor!
don't they love rarely Fighting the devil in other men's fields! Stand up yourself and match him fairly: Then see how the rascal yields!
George Meredith
#36. The ceremony, likely aided by narcotics and hallucinogens, required Hubbard to channel the female deity of Babalon as Parsons performed the "invocation of wand with material basis on talisman" - in other words, masturbating on a piece of parchment. He typically invoked twice a night.
Lawrence Wright
#37. Parsons' interest in the OTO had not been lessened by his new workload. Indeed, it had grown stronger as he immersed himself in the writings and philosophy of Aleister Crowley.
George Pendle
#38. Mr. Gabriel Parsons led the way to the house. He was a sugar-baker, who mistook rudeness for honesty, and abrupt bluntness for an open and candid manner; many besides Gabriel mistake bluntness for sincerity.
Charles Dickens
#39. Parsons was Winston's fellow employee at the Ministry of Truth. He was a fattish but active man of paralyzing stupidity, a mass of imbecile enthusiasms
one of those completely unquestioning, devoted drudges on whom, more even than on the thought police, the stability of the Party depended.
George Orwell
#40. I reckon some parsons have a right to tell yu' to be good. The bishop of this hyeh Territory has a right. But I'll tell yu' this: a middlin' doctor is a pore thing, and a middlin' lawyer is a pore thing; but keep me from a middlin' man of God.
Owen Wister
#41. We don't believe 'in the power of prayer,' but in our all-powerful God who empowers our inherently powerless prayers." - Burk Parsons
Randy Alcorn
#42. I can't remember how many years it's been since I last saw a David Parsons program or what I saw whenever it was, but that isn't surprising, since I can't really remember the first half of a David Parsons program while I'm watching the second half.
Robert Gottlieb
#43. They say opposites attract, which is possibly why I am very much attracted to Nicholas Parsons.
Maria McErlane
#44. I was going to talk about Nicholas Parsons' ignorance, but 18 seconds would be a wholly insufficient time.
Clement Freud
#45. People are always surprised at what a nice guy I am.
Tony Parsons
#46. 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
#48. As a kid, I was obsessed with myths and legends and the haunting beauty of gothic stories.
Nathan Parsons
#49. I feel like I'm a confident dude, so I feel like I can get away with wearing something bold.
Chandler Parsons
#51. But I'm concerned about security." My response to that is simple: "Security is for cadavers.
Bob Parsons
#52. Formerly the master selected the slave; today the slave selects his master.
Albert Parsons
#53. 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
#54. The TV schedule is essentially four or five days to get in touch with the story you're doing that week.
Jim Parsons
#55. My parents have been dead for many years, and when your folks are gone there is nobody standing between you and eternity.
Tony Parsons
#56. I would like to apologize for the rocking of this boat, but we are currently being humped by a whale.
Andy Parsons
#57. 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
#58. I came from a family in Texas who simply never spoke about money.
Jim Parsons
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. I like time off because I also have a life outside of theater.
Estelle Parsons
#64. 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
#65. There is some sadness for me now about acting because it used to be that there was a reverence for actors.
Estelle Parsons
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. My hiatus timeline is so minimal, there's only a select number of projects that I can go in for.
Jim Parsons
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. Immediately after the Floyd experience, I became a pop record producer.
Alan Parsons
#77. 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
#78. 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
#80. I once read somewhere that, in any relationship, the one who cares the least is the one with all the power.
Tony Parsons
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. In France, you can sell a lot, but nobody outside of France ever hears of it.
Alan Parsons
#85. 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
#86. [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
#87. I just passed my identification crisis and came back to country music.
Gram Parsons
#88. physical distance between you is not at all important, because our energy is always leading us towards them.
Andrew M. Parsons
#89. 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
#90. I believe that not much happens of any significance when we're in our comfort zone.
Bob Parsons
#91. 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
#92. There are three things we have no control over: our birth; our emotions, if we're sincere; and our death.
Betty Parsons
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. I'm not crazy; my mother had me tested
Jim Parsons
#97. 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
#98. You have to give kids from ordinary families a ladder. You have to show them there's a way out.
Tony Parsons
#99. 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
#100. 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
