Parker Quotes

You is getting nosier than a parker. (Roald Dahl)
For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them. View quote
Robert B. Parker
I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats. View quote
J. Courtney Sullivan
If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You're dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle. View quote
Quincy Jones
He and the girl had almost nothing to say to each other. One thing he did say was, 'I ain't got any tattoo on my back.' 'What you got on it?' the girl said. 'My shirt,' Parker said. 'Haw.' 'Haw, haw,' the girl said politely. View quote
Flannery O’Connor
Currently I'm working with Parker Fly on a new Midi guitar to arrive next year. View quote
Adrian Belew
People out there maybe know who Junior Parker is and some of those Sun Records blues guys. View quote
Brian Setzer
'Bonnie and Clyde,' while one of the best movies ever made, was far more interested in portraying Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker as romantic anti-establishment Robin Hoods than what they really were: white-trash spree killers. View quote
Bryan Burrough
I didn't know what the hell Charlie Parker was playing... I just liked the way he played. View quote
Charlie Watts
I always have two pairs of glasses: geeky black Warby Parker frames and Wayfarer Ray Bans. Those are key! View quote
Christa Miller
My favorite episode of Stargate? All of them! My favorite episode of Parker Lewis? All of them! (Corin Nemec)
I decided I'd never do a series again, but I was offered a pilot for a series through Eddy Murphy Productions, and that was the gig that got me Parker Lewis. View quote
Corin Nemec
It would be Spiderman. I'd love to be Peter Parker. View quote
Casper Van Dien
Phoebe Wolkind Ephron cracked wise like Dorothy Parker and looked like Katharine Hepburn. View quote
Hallie Ephron
On 'The Guiding Light' I enjoyed working with Jamie Goodwin and Ellen Parker, who played my sister. I loved working with Jerry Ver Dorn and Jay Hammer. I mean, there's some great fun people that I've really enjoyed. View quote
Kassie DePaiva
Charles Parker: We don't want to make large and ignominious public mistakes. View quote
Dorothy L. Sayers
I was also upset to hear of a black conservative in Virginia named Jay Parker. How could a black man call himself a conservative? In a twist of fate, they both are dear friends today, and the youthful wrath I visited upon them is now being visited upon me, though without the youth. What goes around does indeed come around. View quote
Clarence Thomas
It was Richard Parker who calmed me down. It is the irony of this story that the one who scared me witless to start with was the very same who brought me peace, purpose, I dare say even wholeness. View quote
Yann Martel
Then Richard Parker, companion of my torment, awful, fierce thing that kept me alive, moved forward and disappeared forever from my life. View quote
Yann Martel
When I started this song I was still thirty-three The age that Mozart died and sweet Jesus was set free Keats and Shelley too soon finished, Charley Parker would be And I fantasized some tragedy'd be soon curtailing me Well just today I had my birthday I made it thirty-four Mere mortal, not immortal, not star-crossed anymore I've got this problem with my aging I no longer can ignore A tame and toothless tabby can't produce a lion's roar. View quote
Harry Chapin
There was not a lot of rock n' roll in the house. Our parents didn't think it was very groovy, and I tend to agree with them. If you grew up with Charlie Parker, Bill Haley wasn't very hip. (Elvis Costello)
Almost overnight, Dorothy Parker was transformed from a woman of letters into a gin-soaked quote machine, with a martini in one hand and a dagger in the other. View quote
Dorothy Parker
I kept trying to stress that - "Hang on, we're be-bop guys, we're down in the alley on 57th Street. We're not in there with John Reed and "Ten Days That Shook the World." We'd be in the alley with (Charlie) Parker shooting up junk. That's where we were at really. View quote
Joe Strummer
Mrs. Parker Bowles is a great friend of mine...a friend for a very long time. She will continue to be a friend for a long time. View quote
Charles III
Had it not been for Thomas Paine I could not deliver this lecture here to-night. It is still fashionable to calumniate this man - and yet Channing, Theodore Parker, Longfellow, Emerson, and in fact all the liberal Unitarians and Universalists of the world have adopted the opinions of Thomas Paine. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll