Nathan Parker Quotes

Who's that hot piece of cowboy standing with Nathan?" She pointed toward one end of the barn by a stack of hay bales.
A scowl tightened all the muscles in his face as he followed the length of her arm to the direction of her fingertip. Before he could answer, she was already pulling him again. This time toward his cousin.
"Nate, who's your friend?" she asked, not bothering with hellos. Letting go of Caleb's hand and leaving him feeling empty, she shifted her weight to her toes when she stopped in front of Preston. "Your eyes remind me of those old Sprite bottles. I found one at a flea market once. I think it's still lying around somewhere in my room."
Nathan's chuckle caught her attention. "Diana Alexander, let me introduce you to Preston Grant. He's a childhood friend of mine and Caleb's. Pres, this is Didi."
"Can I paint you naked?" she asked, unabashed, looking up at him. Nathan's chuckles became full-blown laughter. She hiked her thumb at Caleb. His scowl deepened. "This one's too shy."
"It's nice to meet you, Didi," Preston said. He seemed unperturbed by her request. The bastard.
She danced to Nathan's side and leaned in conspiratorially, not taking her eyes away from Preston. "Between you and me," she whispered loud enough for Caleb and the object of her fascination to hear, "just how far does his tan go?"
That had done it. The words came out of his mouth without thinking. "If you're going to paint someone naked, it will be me." With i ~ Kate Evangelista

[Suggesting an epitaph for herself:] This is on me. ~ Dorothy Parker

What turned me on to comedy was - well, first of all, I like being able to laugh, I like people who can make me laugh. ~ Nathan Fillion

People in positions of power and privilege have a duty to perform at a higher level. If not them, then who? ~ Kathleen Parker

The union of men in large masses is indispensable to the development and rapid growth of the higher faculties of men. Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization whence light and heat radiated out into the dark cold world. ~ Theodore Parker

F you're making the scene as a director, you're looking for alternatives, once you've got to that place that's very much in Rowan's [Atkins] head, to see if you can take it further, in some places. Sometimes you do absolutely know there's something there. You just feel it in your bones. ~ Oliver Parker

I hear people say, "It happened for a reason," or "It's part of God's plan," and I wish that made sense to me but it doesn't. ~ Mary-Louise Parker

Man is the jewel of God, who has created this material world to keep his treasure in. ~ Theodore Parker

You know, and it really doesn't have a lot to do with the movie. That's the trick to doing a good musical is that, if you take that music number out, there's less to the movie there. You would miss it. ~ Trey Parker

It will be exciting to have my child share my career and to remember what I was like when I was young. ~ Candace Parker

You don't become a runner by winning a morning workout. The only true way is to marshal the ferocity of your ambition over the course of many day, weeks, months, and (if you could finally come to accept it) years. The Trial of Miles; Miles of Trials. ~ John L. Parker Jr.

Good teaching cannot be reduced to technique; good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher. ~ Parker J. Palmer

Nature is man's religious book, with lessons for every day. ~ Theodore Parker

For what it was worth, she got the impression that Niessa liked her, or at least approved of her, in the same way a chess-player approves of one of his pieces when it stays where it's been put and doesn't go wandering off all over the board. ~ K.J. Parker

A video taped stage performance is just - you know, it's never gonna be the same as it is if you're sitting there live in the theatre. ~ Nathan Lane

People moan about Twitter, people being rude and trolling. Just turn it off. Life goes on. ~ Tom Parker Bowles

I find Mormons adorable. I love Disneyland and old musicals, and, to me, Mormonism fits right in with all of that. ~ Trey Parker

Another like me? Don't leave me out here with myself! I'd go mad. Please
don't leave me alone, Samuel! Just take me home!" Tears stream down her face.
"Please take me home! ~ Nathan Reese Maher

No olive?" I said. "Only a fucking beast would have an olive in his martini, ~ Robert B. Parker

becoming one's self: Rabbi Zusya, when he was an old man, said, "In the coming world, they will not ask me: `Why were you not Moses?' They will ask me: Why were you not Zusya?"'=
If you doubt that we all arrive in this world with gifts and as a gift, pay attention to an infant or a very young child. A few years ago, my daughter and her newborn baby came to live ~ Parker J. Palmer

When you set a play in the French Quarter in New Orleans, it's hard not to acknowledge the whole African-American, French, white mixing of races. That's what the French Quarter is: it's a Creole community. ~ Nicole Ari Parker

You shouldn't have to venture deep down in order to get to love -A (Nathan) ~ David Levithan

In 1942, everyone was ready to go and fight for the good guys. It was so simple. ~ Parker Stevenson

I don't have time for the 'things change speech, Parker."
"So give me the CliffNotes version. ~ Courtney Summers

The truth is, marijuana probably isn't going to make you kill people. Most likely isn't going to fund terrorists, but pot makes you feel fine with being bored and it's when you're bored that you should be learning a new skill or some new science or being creative. If you smoke pot you may grow up to find out that you're not good at anything. ~ Trey Parker

And what is happiness, Nathan? In my experience, it's only a moment's pause here and there on what is otherwise a long and difficult road. No one can be happy all the time. ~ William Kent Krueger

People Who Do Things exceed my endurance;
God, for a man that solicits insurance! ~ Dorothy Parker

I went to Morocco, joined a band called Pegasus, ran out of money, went to Gibraltar and worked on the docks, writing songs about the sun and the morning and the birds. ~ Graham Parker

I didn't know Charlie before doing the movie, but I was a huge fan of the British Queer as Folk. ~ Nathan Lane

True preaching is the sweating of blood. ~ Joseph Parker

Women do have it tougher, fact, but it's not a walk in the park for a man either. Is life really about sexist men, or women taking power back, or is it about equality, sharing, understanding and love? ~ Jimmy Tudeski

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society has a way of bending you until you break, no matter how strong you think you are or how hard you try to fight back. it will try to fold you on top of yourself and shape you into something new - something prettier, smaller, less you and more them. but it doesn't realize that by doing so, it's creating a warrior out of you, one strong enough to sink mountains and raise tides. strong enough to reach inside the earth and shake it to its very core. strong enough to leave your mark on what's tried to leave its mark on you. ~ Cyrus Parker

I did everything pretty cliche as an actor in New York. I read the trades, I sent out 'head shots.' ~ Nicole Ari Parker

Perhaps, the answer is that my ravaged mind rails against the idea of God, but something deeper in me calls out as if God might answer. 'There are not foxholes,' I guess, and depression is the deepest and deadliest foxhole I've been in. It may be the 'dark night of the soul' that the mystics talk about but in depression it is not so much that one becomes lost in the dark as one becomes the dark. ~ Parker J. Palmer

It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be. ~ Gilbert Parker