Doug Parker Quotes
Our quarterly financial results reflect the continued difficult industry environment but also show some encouraging trends. Both US Airways' and America West's stand-alone results, excluding special charges, are much improved versus last year despite a nearly $200 million increase in expenses due to higher fuel prices.
Quotes to Explore
-
It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
-
Doing a kid's movie is fun when you have kids. You don't want to do kids' movies if you don't have kids. When you have kids, things change in your life.
-
How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.
-
The best time to release a film is on a festive date like Divali or Eid, or at a time when there are no big films three to four weeks before or after.
-
Comedy is a tool of togetherness. It's a way of putting your arm around someone, pointing at something, and saying, 'Isn't it funny that we do that?' It's a way of reaching out.
-
If there is a pattern, it will come back - maybe in Russia more than anywhere else, because it has collapsed so many times. Maybe less so here in the States, because here the society is so young.
-
Most writers have no idea how to make a film. It's a totally different skill set. Nor is it just to translate exactly what's on the page directly on to the screen - because that would be terrible. It would be five hours long, and the structure would be a mess. But the writers know the characters and the story.
-
Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
-
Take time to enjoy the flight - read a good book, watch a film, catch up on emails and sleep.
-
People's lives change dramatically over such a long time period, and I think that if you're still vital, and you're still interested in writing and things like that, of course your music evolves and reflects where you are in your life.
-
As an actress, one of the perks is having access to ridiculously expensive clothing and prancing around on the red carpet. Who wouldn't want to have fun with that?
-
I have 18 cars, but I never had a Rolls-Royce.
-
If I have to be fierce, I'll be fierce.
-
I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.
-
'There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty.'
-
Our Garrick's a salad; for in him we seeOil, vinegar, sugar, and saltness agree!
-
At this point, I don’t need my records to be Number One or sell as many as this person or that person. That’s not fundamentally important - I don’t believe that sustains you.
-
Brazil is bigger than Europe, wilder than Africa, and weirder than Baffin Land.
-
I had had a father whose shoes I could never fill, against whom I would never measure up; yet, I felt no pressure do so.
-
The Hardy Boys burned me out. I was recharging my batteries. It was time to return to work, but it was tough because my visibility was low.
-
I get up around 6:30. I work from about 8:00 to 1:00, take a break for lunch, work again until about 5:00, and then go for a long walk and have dinner. Then, if my wife and I have no previous plans, we decide what to do for the evening.
-
I think that certainly the artists of the '40s, '50s and '60s were fighting a very conformist society, which didn't give them enough space to live or create, and they were bucking all kinds of spoken and unspoken rules.
-
Our quarterly financial results reflect the continued difficult industry environment but also show some encouraging trends. Both US Airways' and America West's stand-alone results, excluding special charges, are much improved versus last year despite a nearly $200 million increase in expenses due to higher fuel prices.
