Tom Parker Quotes

#1. Could be I've finally gone crazy, but men crazier than me have done greater things than I've ever dreamed, so we'll see where it takes me." ~ Tom Parker, Imagination Stone

Drew Bankston

#2. Whatever worked in the past, build on it; whatever didn't work in the past, break the chain that binds you to it.

Marianne Williamson

#3. Like the Devil, the Norway lobster is known by a variety of different names: cigala in Spain, langoustine in France, Dublin Bay Prawn in Ireland. And in Italy, as well as the U.K., scampi.

Tom Parker Bowles

#4. It's rubbish to say that just because it's organic, it's better. There's good organic, and there's bad organic. We should all be thinking about taste, not some stamp on the package.

Tom Parker Bowles

#5. Science exacts a substantial entry fee in effort and tedium in exchange for its insights.

Carl Sagan

#6. LINSCOTT: Well, life certainly treats you fine.
CONNIE: No, Tom. Life and I go Dutch.

Dorothy Parker

#7. My father was often away with the army, or in London, but mum did a lot of the cooking. She never liked cakes - not baking. Meat. Fish. That's what she did.

Tom Parker Bowles

#8. London was a spice mecca. The first recipe for curry in English was actually published in 1747.

Tom Parker Bowles

#9. A portrait of the young Charlie Parker with a degree of vivid detail never before approached ... [Kansas City Lightning is] a deft, virtuosic panorama of early jazz ... This is a mind-opening, and mind-filling, book.

Tom Piazza

#10. My mother was a mother. She didn't really work, apart from bringing us up, which a job in itself, but at an age where lots of people are thinking of retiring, so is having up to 20 or 30 engagements a day, and she's brilliant at it - she has always been brilliant with people.

Tom Parker Bowles

#11. On the whole, I try to avoid confrontations with deadly snakes.

Tom Parker Bowles

#12. It's a very open-armed experience in Australia - you feel immediately welcomed - I felt being here for three months - honoured, delighted, proud.

Tom Parker Bowles

#13. My father was in the army, and you know not to talk about things on the telephone that you wouldn't want to hear transmitted.

Tom Parker Bowles

#14. Many people confuse religion with God and walk away from them both. The point isn't Christianity, the point is being a Christian.

Rob Bell

#15. I didn't like anti-Vietnam War art. I didn't like feminist art. I thought it was heavy-handed and stupid - as art.

Robert Barry

#16. Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#17. A resistless feeling of depression falls slowly upon us, despite the gaudy sunshine and the green cotton-fields. This, then, is the Cotton Kingdom
the shadow of a marvelous dream.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#18. All you care about with your parents is that they are happy, and my mother is exceptionally happy at the moment, and I've always adored my stepfather, and he's always been a kind and good and lovely man.

Tom Parker Bowles

#19. If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

Harry S. Truman

#20. I travel as light as possible and usually pack in less than a minute. If I'm going somewhere hot, I throw in some flip-flops, T-shirts and shorts - but I still pack clothes that I never use.

Tom Parker Bowles

#21. The sea will wash away our footprints but not the fact we made them.

Marty Rubin

#22. When I was 18, I went to India and was stupid enough to drink the tap water. I ended up with dysentery. It's not an experience I wish to go through again.

Tom Parker Bowles

#23. You get lots of people, especially where I live, who go in to a butcher and insist on organic beef - even when the butcher has better-tasting stuff from a farm that's been producing wonderful meat for 100 years but hasn't jumped through the hoops to get organic certification.

Tom Parker Bowles

#24. People moan about Twitter, people being rude and trolling. Just turn it off. Life goes on.

Tom Parker Bowles

#25. I love London. I love the U.K., but if I was going to live anywhere else on Earth, it would be Australia.

Tom Parker Bowles

#26. I read recently that I was born in Arizona. I wasn't born in Arizona. I was born in New Mexico, but I can understand why people might confuse those two Southwestern desert states.

Baron Vaughn

#27. Fantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows you to death.

Terry Pratchett

#28. The public is tired of politicians professing certain beliefs and not acting on those beliefs. They want elected officials who have the moral courage to do what they will say they will do when they're running for election.

Colonel Tom Parker

#29. There's absolutely nothing anyone can say about my mother or myself or my step-father that we haven't heard before. You'd have to be a Dickens or a Nabakov to come up with something really offensive.

Tom Parker Bowles

#30. Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#31. I have stayed in lots of great hotels around the world, and the Plaza Athenee is definitely one of my favourites.

Tom Parker Bowles