Quotes About Richard Parker

#1. Richard Parker found himself on a dinghy with three other men, floating over a thousand kilometres from the nearest land.

Eleanor Learmonth

#2. What is the purpose of reason, Richard Parker? Is it no more than to shine at practicalities - the getting of food, clothing and shelter? Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net of there's so little fish to catch?

Yann Martel

#3. Isn't it ironic, Richard Parker? We're in hell yet still we're afraid of immortality

Yann Martel

#4. Then Richard Parker, companion of my torment, awful, fierce thing that kept me alive, moved forward and disappeared forever from my life.

Yann Martel

#5. Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good to see you Richard Parker!

Yann Martel

#6. God is wrath and God is mercy. The State is the instrument of his wrath, the Church of his mercy

Martin Luther

#7. Are you firing him?" Her voice squeaked as if she had uttered the most outrageous profanity. Voiced the great unspoken. The mere suggestion of firing Richard Troy was the theatrical equivalent of hollering "Voldemort!" in the halls of Hogwarts.

Lucy Parker

#8. 'The Simpsons' is like Charlie Parker or Marlon Brando or Richard Pryor: Comedy couldn't go back to the way it was after 'The Simpsons' came out.

Eric Andre

#9. As Richard has pointed out on several occasions, I subscribe to the irregular verb theory of life: I am a trained investigator, you have a healthy curiosity, she/he is a nosy parker.

Val McDermid

#10. I'm only the messenger!"
"Now you're the message", Parker told him and shot him.

Richard Stark

#11. My life is littered with bad decisions.

Will Forte

#12. If you leave me here," the guy on the floor said, "he'll kill me tomorrow morning."
Parker looked at him. "So you've still got tonight," he said.

Richard Stark

#13. PARKER spent two weeks on the white sand beach at Biloxi, and on a white sandy bitch named Belle, ...
Beat that for a PC opening line ... not

Richard Stark

#14. When the phone rang, Parker was in the garage, killing a man.

Richard Stark

#15. You don't have any claim on the money, and there's no proof I ever saw or touched or spent a dollar of it. You want to take me to court?"
"You're in court right now," Parker said.

Richard Stark

#16. When the guy with asthma finally came in from the fire escape, Parker rabbit-punched him and took his gun away.

Richard Stark

#17. The thing is, whenever I see Hillary Clinton, I feel like I have to vote for her. She makes me feel guilty because I feel like I should vote for her so that she'll feel better about herself because she'd been in such a bad marriage.

Lewis Black

#18. Perchance you shall, fair sir," said Nigel, "for all that I have seen of you fills me with this desire to go further with you. It is in my mind that we might turn this thing to profit and to honour, for when Sir Robert has spoken to you, I am free to do with you as I will.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#19. For you, that tree is dead.

Richard Stark

#20. Ever read a book that changed your life? Me neither.

Jim Gaffigan