Dave Parnas Quotes

Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically,' they really mean, 'not really.'

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• When we grew up, we wanted to do two things: to own a sports team and a casino.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Up
  • Team
  • Sports

• Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces' capabilities, underestimating the enemy, and the associated expectation that the coalition could soon reduce force levels and shift to an exclusively advisory effort.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Thinking
  • Effort
  • Enemy

• The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'

  

  Ed Speleers
  • Want
  • Dream
  • Night

• Devotion, as it relates to the title of my memoir, means fidelity - as in fidelity to a person or a practice. I think it's certainly possible to feel devotion without having faith, at least in the religious sense of the word.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Think
  • Faith
  • Religious

• When I was a kid, 'Blade Runner' was my favorite movie. I remember seeing that when I was a little boy with my dad.

  

  Tahmoh Penikett
  • Remember
  • Movie
  • Dad

• I think there are more female characters in videogames now but I also think that's because videogames in general are more diverse now.

  

  Tara Strong
  • Think
  • More
  • Now

• You didn't hear anything about 'Celtic Pride' when they had Sidney Wicks and Curtis Rowe and they were only winning 32 games a year.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • You
  • Winning
  • Pride

• I'm not into replicating old movies. But one should never say never. Tomorrow I may feel like making a part 2 of some of my movies.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • May
  • Movies
  • Old

• There are three or four places in the country where people think of fashion: One is L.A., obviously. Another is New York. And I think Atlanta has to be in the top five cities where fashion is very big.

  

  Cam Newton
  • People
  • Country
  • Fashion

• If you didn't know that I am an actress, I don't think you could tell from my lifestyle. I cook and cook and cook. I like to be with my daughter. She's 16, so of course I bore her.

  

  Karen Black
  • Daughter
  • Actress
  • Lifestyle

• Money is not the most important thing, but when you need it, there are few substitutes. So while I like the things money can buy, I love what money won't buy. It bought me a house but it won't buy me a home. It would buy me a companion but it won't buy me a friend.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Important
  • Money
  • Love

• All the great utterances of man have to be judged not by the letter but by the spirit - the spirit which unfolds itself with the growth of life in history.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Life
  • Great
  • History

• Only to the rational animal is it given to follow voluntarily what happens; but simply to follow is a necessity imposed on all.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Animal

• When strawberries go begging, and the sleek Blue plums lie open to the blackbird’s beak, We shall live well - we shall live very well.

  

  Elinor Wylie
  • Live
  • Blue

• Fair stands the ancient Rectory, The Rectory of Croft, The sun shines bright upon it, The breezes whisper soft. From all the house and garden Its inhabitants come forth, And muster in the road without, And pace in twos and threes about, The children of the North.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Children
  • House
  • Road

• The kind of Conservatism which he and I...favoured would be best described as 'liberal', in the old-fashioned sense. And I mean the liberalism of Mr Gladstone not of the latter day collectivists. That is to say, we placed far greater confidence in individuals, families, businesses and neighbourhoods than in the State.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Confidence

• I won't wear rings and jewelry on the stage because I don't want you looking at my hands. I want you hearing what I'm saying.

  

  Mavis Staples
  • Jewelry

• I find that if I don't have enough physical activity in life, I don't do as well with anything else in my life. It's stress relief; it's good health. It's fun. It's alone time, for the most part.

  

  Betsy Hodges
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• Every movement that slays its gods creates new ones, of course. I loathe talk of the sixties and seventies being a 'Greatest Generation' of artists, but if we're going to use such idiotic appellations, let this one also be applied to the artists, curators, and gallerists who emerged in the first half of the nineties.

  

  Jerry Saltz

• If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Freedom

• But against this it is thus opposed: the Will of God is the Nature or the Essence of God, because for God the ""to be"" is not one thing, ""to will"" the other; and for that reason, just as there is one Essence of Three Persons, so also one Will. Therefore if God by nature is God, He is also by will God; and if the Word of God by nature is the Son of God, He is also by will the Son of God.

  

  Peter Lombard
  • God
  • Nature
  • Son

• Well, I may not be the youngest candidate in this race. But I will be the youngest woman President in the history of the United States!

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • History
  • President
  • Youngest woman

• I had, to be sure, been drawn into economics when the General Theory was an exciting revelation for students hungry for explanation and remedy of the Great Depression. At the same time, I was uncomfortable with several aspects of Keynes’ theory, and I sought to improve what would now be called the microfoundations of his macroeconomic relations.

  

  James Tobin
  • Time
  • Great
  • Depression

• Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically,' they really mean, 'not really.'

  

  Dave Parnas