Top 100 Perkins Quotes
#1. (Oklahoma Thunder center Kendrick) Perkins doesn't like other NBA players.
Doc Rivers
#2. Amber was not shy. If she had been shy, not one of us would be at Perkins right now.
Lorrie Moore
#3. It would have saved trouble had I remained Perkins from the first, this changing of women's names is a nuisance we are now happily outgrowing.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
#4. They'd even met, he recommended him to his own editor at Scribner, Max Perkins, suggesting Max sign up this promising young
Olivia Laing
#5. He secretly thinks he looks like Marlon Brando, but take a good look a young Marlin Perkins is more like it! Maybe that's what he sees in Annette Kelper - he's an animal lover.
David Sedaris
#6. The first record I bought was a Carl Perkins record, because I saw him at The Festival at Sandpoint, Idaho. I loved Elvis and I found out that he wrote 'Blue Suede Shoes' ... so connecting that experience of going to see him play was pretty awesome. That's when I realised I wanted to play guitar.
Josh Homme
#7. Are all our dates going to be like that?" said Perkins.
"I hope not", I replied with a smile, "but it was quite fun, wasn't it? I mean, it's not like we were killed or eaten or anything, right?"
"If your idea of a good date is not being killed and eaten, you'll never be disappointed.
Jasper Fforde
#8. My first trip abroad was to do a TV version of 'Les Miserables' in France with Anthony Perkins. There I was at 12 acting with the guy from 'Psycho.' My parents were teachers, and it was hard for them to relate to that world.
Dexter Fletcher
#9. Mr. Perkins adviseth, in the reading of the Scriptures, to begin with the Gospel of John, and this Epistle to the Romans, as being the keys of the New Testament.
Matthew Poole
#10. I had one drama teacher who was amazing, Ms. Perkins. She really tried to inspire me and get me going.
Carlos Pena Jr.
#11. However, this President sees no problem eliminating funding for Perkins Loans in his budget, even though the cost of tuition is rising and will continue to rise as the administration's policies force inflation.
Tim Bishop
#12. The Black Hole?" Grey asked, incredulously. "Nobody quotes The Black Hole, Dresden. Nobody even remembers that one." "Hogwash. Ernest Borgnine, Anthony Perkins, and Roddy McDowall all in the same movie? Immortality.
Jim Butcher
#13. If Jovan Belcher didn't possess a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today.
Bob Costas
#14. I am a cross between Carl Perkins and Led Zeppelin.
Ronnie Hawkins
#15. The Perkins Bar has always demonstrated a commitment to the community and excelled in service not only to the minority community, but to the community at large.
Kevin Cook
#16. I have a bit of an obsession with the 1950's and all those actors from Montgomery Clift to James Dean and Anthony Perkins. Just that whole era of Tennessee Williams to Elia Kazan.
Sebastian Stan
#17. If there were no Carl Perkins, there would be no Beatles.
Paul McCartney
#18. I just get to go to work with such great actors who are so talented, especially Elizabeth (Perkins). You are so wonderful and kind and good and wonderful and sexy and great, and I just want to make out with all of you.
Mary-Louise Parker
#19. I worked with Carl Perkins on a number of shows. Live shows. He just showed up and played. He just killed. Killed! Man ... he was amazing!
Lesley Gore
#20. I loved Carl Perkins, Jerry lee Lewis ... not only were they personal friends.
Wanda Jackson
#21. The children break all my jewelry, so everything I wear is cheap - from Topshop or Dorothy Perkins.
Sally Phillips
#23. I was very keen on people like Elvis, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Gene Vincent.
Robin Trower
#24. She kind of reminds one of Helen. There's something very similar about Elizabeth Perkins.
Paul Reiser
#25. I always said it was to be dumb enough to do what Marlon Perkins said to do.
Jim Fowler
#26. (At the end of the nineteenth century, economist Charlotte Perkins Gilman complained that housework was the only job that had not been modernized.)
Ann Jones
#27. One night I saw Jerry Lee, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Elvis for a dollar, if you believe that, in an open-air concert. Presley, I got to meet and go into his house and so forth. My wife says I should quit tellin' that story, 'cause they'll know how old I am.
William Sanderson
#28. A laboratory had been fitted up, army classes were instituted; they all said the character of the school was changing. And heaven only knew what further projects Mr. Perkins turned in that untidy head of his.
W. Somerset Maugham
#29. Is he a sophomore?" Lydia says. "Please tell me he's in our grade."
"I don't know," I say.
"But weren't you there when he came to the office?" Peyton says.
"The secretary didn't get out her bullhorn and announce what grade he's in. She just took him to meet Headmaster Perkins.
Lauren Myracle
#30. I hadn't read or heard a lot about [Tom] Wolfe until I read this script, and in that way I think it was really clever to write a piece about him instead of Max Perkins,[Ernest] Hemingway, [John] Fitzgerald, or others that people have strong opinions of already.
Jude Law
#31. I think I'm telling the truth. I sat by Ray Perkins at the Hall of Fame dinner in New York, and at that time he didn't know he was our coach and I didn't either.
Bear Bryant
#32. I had been thinking about how greatness always has a hand from luck or fate. That no one ever achieves anything with their will alone. The luck or fate that helped us, amongst many others, was that my sister happened to know these two heavy metal kids David Navarro and Stephen Perkins.
Eric Avery
#33. My songs are personal music, they're not communal. I wouldn't want people singing along with me. It would sound funny. I'm not playing campfire meetings. I don't remember anyone singing along with Elvis, Carl Perkins or Little Richard.
Bob Dylan
#34. I used to dress like Roger Taylor when I was ten because I thought he was cool. In high school, I used to dress like Stephen Perkins from Jane's Addiction because I thought he was cool. You just want to be those guys when you're that age.
Taylor Hawkins
#35. A lot has been written about Tony Perkins and myself and I figured, Let's get it straight. I had a relationship with Tony for two to three years, but those are only threads in the tapestry of my whole life.
Tab Hunter
#36. For the two of us, home isn't a place. It's a person. And we're finally home."
Stephanie Perkins - Anna and the French Kiss
Stephanie Perkins
#37. William Perkins said, The end of a man's calling is not to gather riches for himself ... but to serve God in the serving of man, and in the seeking the good of all men.
Leland Ryken
#38. Coach Perkins will stand trial for second-degree murder in Cincinnati.
Joan Bauer
#39. I've worked so hard for years, and it's just incredible to see my clothes in Dorothy Perkins. I got quite emotional at the launch.
Amy Childs
#40. including Edna Millay, there were five such women: essayist Maeve Brennan, columnist Neith Boyce, novelist Edith Wharton, and social visionary Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
Kate Bolick
#42. It is not the nature of man, as I see it, ever to be quite satisfied with what he has in life ... Contentment tends to breed laxity, but a healthy discontent keeps us alert to the changing needs of our time.
Frances Perkins
#44. I don't believe in fashion. I believe in costume. Life is too short to be same person every day.
Stephanie Perkins
#45. Let us inquire what glory there was in an omnipotent being torturing forever a puny little creature who could in no way defend himself? Would it be to the glory of a man to fry ants?
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
#46. I can't play piano like I used to either. I used to have bass rolling like thunder. I can't do that no more. But I ask the Lord, please forgive me for the stuff I done trying to make a nickel.
Pinetop Perkins
#49. The poor need the motivation, the incentives, the skills, the education so they can help themselves.
John M. Perkins
#50. I collapse in bed and fall asleep with me other hand clasped around the blue rubber band. And I dream about blue eyes and blue nails and first-kiss lips dusted with blue sugar crystals.
Stephanie Perkins
#51. I spent the period reading the first novel assigned for English. And wow. If I hadn't realized I was in France yet, I do now. Because Like Water for Chocolate has sex in it. LOTS of sex.
Stephanie Perkins
#52. Fear and debt drive this system. We are hammered with messages that terrify us into believing that we must pay any price, assume any debt, to stop the enemies who, we are told, lurk at our doorsteps. The
John Perkins
#53. My parents aren't hippies. I'm North as in the North Pole. Unfortunately. My brother is Nicholas, and my sister is Noelle.
Wow. God. That's
About a hundred times worse than your name.
I was going to say devoted. Festively devoted.
Stephanie Perkins
#54. Fine blunderers in ethics we are, so generally conveying to children the basic impression that pleasantness must be wrong, and right doing unpleasant!
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
#55. To her amazement,Ellie breaks into an ear-to-ear smile.Oddly enough, it's this moment I realize that despite her husky voice and Parisian attire,she's sort of...plain. But friendly-looking.
That still doesn't mean I like her.
Stephanie Perkins
#56. Yielding to God's will can be hard. And sometimes, it really hurts. But it always brings peace.
John M. Perkins
#57. I wish he would look at me the way he looks at his subjects. Because then he'd see there's more to me than shy, just like I see there's more to him than slacker
Stephanie Perkins
#58. And for the first time since coming home, i'm completely happy. It's strange. Home ... to be here, in my technical house, and discover now someplace different ... Is it possible for home to be a person and not a place? ... For the two of us, home isn't a place. It's a person. And we're finally home.
Stephanie Perkins
#59. I've always felt lucky to live someplace where snow is rare, you know? It's rareness that makes it so speacial.
Stephanie Perkins
#60. I felt ten years old and a thousand years old, but I didn't know how to be my own age. I had never felt that way before, but now I feel like that a lot.
Lynne Rae Perkins
#61. Would you love a man of a broken shell after the passing of a women's soul?
Brian Perkins
#64. Fill your heart with as much love as you can, and don't hold it in.
Carl Perkins
#65. When the National Security Agency recruited me, they put me through a day of lie detector tests. They found out all my weaknesses and immediately seduced me. They used the strongest drugs in our culture, sex, power and money, to win me over.
John Perkins
#66. Girls were supposed to be happy that someone wanted them, as though they were kittens in a basket, and any left by day's end would be drowned in the pond.
Stephanie Perkins
#67. At eighty-six years old, people tell you how much wisdom you have. I don't know about all of that, but I do know that God has done much in me and through me, and He's still working on me.
John M. Perkins
#68. This is the woman's century, the first chance for the mother of the world to rise to her full place ... and the world waits while she powders her nose.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
#71. I always find a nice cup of tea and a few biscuits an excellent accompaniment to writing.
Claire H. Perkins
#72. How many times can our emotions be tied to someone else's - be pulled and stretched and twisted - before they snap? Before they can never be mended again?
Stephanie Perkins
#74. She kissed his lips then. They tasted of apples and cheese, of the revelation of things you never imagined going so well together. She tasted meting ice cream, too, melting defenses, herself melting into Russell.
Stephanie Perkins
#75. Being 'one flesh' in marriage means that the relationship is not the source of security, affirmation, control, or value. Those issues of identity need to be rooted in Christ.
Scott Perkins
#76. It's Sunday night," he continues. "You aren't at Pizza Pellino."
"No, I'm at the Treehouse with Hattie." And then I'm so dizzy my vision goes black. "How ... how did you know that I'm not there?"
"Because I'm here.
Stephanie Perkins
#77. Whenever any of these new writers come up who are brilliant, I always realize that you have more talent and more skill than any of them;---but circumstances have prevented you from realizing upon the fact for a long time. [About F. Scott Fitzgerald]
Maxwell Perkins
#78. You'll be so busy with Bridge and what's-his-name that you'll forget all about your English mate, St. Clair."
"Ha! So you are English!" I poke him in the stomach.
He grabs my hand and we wrestle, laughing. "I claim ... no ... nationality.
Stephanie Perkins
#79. If you're middle aged ... where're you going to go to meet someone? You're not going to go to a bar, you're not going to go to a night club; and there are the museums.
Elizabeth Perkins
#80. It's only when we're relaxed that the thing way down deep in all of us - call it the subconscious mind, the spirit, what you will - has a chance to well up and tell us how we shall go.
Frances Perkins
#81. Man has too long forgotten that the earth was given to him for usufruct alone, not for consumption, still less for profligate waste.
George Perkins Marsh
#82. Contrary to common public opinion, Iraq is not simply about oil. It is also about water and geopolitics. Both the Tigris and Euphrates rivers flow through Iraq; thus, of all the countries in that part of the world, Iraq controls the most important sources of increasingly critical water resources.
John Perkins
#83. Soap?"
"School of America in Paris" he explains. "SOAP".
Nice. My father sent me here to be cleansed.
Stephanie Perkins
#84. And even though he doesn't mean it like I-want-to-leave-my-girlfriend-and-start-dating-you cute, something flickers inside of me. The "force of strength and destruction" Tita de la Garza knew so well.
Stephanie Perkins
#85. My children ain't the only thing I love. If I was allowed, I reckon I'd love myself, too.
Dolen Perkins-Valdez
#86. Never in all her life had she imagined that this idolized millinery could look, to those who paid for it, like the decorations of an insane monkey.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
#87. Writing is a way of life. I do it because it's a way of experiencing the world, and trying to come to terms with it and understand it and express it and engage with it. And to me it's a natural extension of reading.
Emily Perkins
#88. But we were made to believe and not allowed to think. We were told to obey, rather than to experiment and investigate.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
#89. He raises his voice so that I can hear him through the glass door. "Get some rest, Loopy. Sweet dreams."
"Sweet," I echo. "Dream.
Stephanie Perkins
#90. It's amazing how clothing affects how people see - or don't see - you.
Stephanie Perkins
#91. I doubted myself, and that made me doubt you. But you weren't the problem. You were never the problem. I should have trusted you, but I didn't, because I couldn't trust myself.
Stephanie Perkins
#92. I believe the writer ... should always be the final judge. I have always held to that position and have sometimes seen books hurt thereby, but at least as often helped. The book belongs to the author.
Maxwell Perkins
#93. One of my favourite actresses is Kate Winslet. She plays strong female characters and seems like she has a strong political awareness. I really like Naomi Watts and Juliette Lewis.
Emily Perkins
#94. I'm empty. I'm drained. And I can't move. Not that I'd want to. Because that's the thing about depression. When I feel it deeply, I don't want to let it go. It becomes a comfort.
Stephanie Perkins
#95. All truth is very ordinary. It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary.
Brian Perkins
#96. You'll be reading the breakfast menu without me before you know it.
Hmm, maybe I don't want to learn French
Stephanie Perkins
#97. I want to kiss him for the rest of the night, for the rest of our lives. The one.
Stephanie Perkins
#98. American and Vietnamese characters alike leap to life through the voice and eyes of a tenyearold girl-a protagonist so strong, loving, and vivid I longed to hand her a wedge of freshly cut papaya.
Mitali Perkins
#100. But we stayed together, because I don't know why. Maybe because we though we should be in love. At least I did. I wanted to be in love.
Stephanie Perkins
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