Billy Parish Quotes

We fight, even against insurmountable odds, because sometimes we win.

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• I am scared; I don't know what is going to happen to me. What was the point of working so hard and of being talented, to be rewarded like this? Never a penny, tormented all my life. It is horrible; one cannot imagine it.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Life
  • Working
  • Scared

• When you go all over the world for work, your dream vacation is your bedroom.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • World
  • Work
  • Dream

• I think golf is literally an addiction. I'm surprised there's not Golf Anonymous.

  

  Larry David
  • Think
  • Golf
  • Addiction

• I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • War
  • Look
  • Month

• I study hard at Russian, which is a tough but most attractive language.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Study
  • Language
  • Tough

• A system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere matter of schools. Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Men
  • School
  • House

• As to which is cuter, a puppy or a baby, I'm going to say that probably depends less on the particular puppy and more on the baby. I've seen pictures of me as an infant and consider myself lucky that nobody ever offered my parents the opportunity to trade me for a beagle.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Parents
  • Opportunity
  • Myself

• Having fans wherever I go gives me an energy, and it is the source of my power.

  

  Rain
  • Power
  • Energy
  • Fans

• Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • People
  • Good
  • Democracy

• There's a limit to how much you can deploy renewables, like wind or solar. People will talk about getting up to 30 percent of America's power from renewables, but you can't get to 100 percent because of their unreliability.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Up
  • Power

• Success is so bad for everybody, period. Especially a certain kind of success, when people practically give up their identity. They forget who they are, how they are.

  

  Jack Dunphy
  • People
  • Up
  • Bad

• I grew up in Florida riding horses, so for the majority of my life I was either in boots and jeans or a bathing suit.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Life
  • Up
  • My Life

• I did 75 films. I didn't take a break; I didn't spend my money. I have my savings, so when you're not working for money anymore, then you should find things that are meaningful and not just be like, 'OK, that's another day gone.'

  

  Maggie Cheung
  • Money
  • Day
  • Find

• This is very intriguing to think we should audit the Fed, but I discovered that probably if they audited the Fed, it would get a clean bill because it's undoubtedly doing exactly what it's supposed to do according to the law.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Think
  • Law
  • Doing

• Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Music
  • Think
  • Noises

• Ideas come from all over, but as I write more and more, I find I'm always hunting for mood: I want to write a novel with a pervasive mood that sticks with you after you close the cover.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Want
  • Ideas
  • Mood

• I love improvisation. It's quite exciting.

  

  Tcheky Karyo
  • Exciting
  • Quite
  • Improvisation

• Coming into a game in the eighth or ninth inning is like parachuting behind enemy lines. And sometimes the chute doesn't open. You have to live with that. It's an occupational hazard.

  

  Dan Quisenberry
  • Live
  • Game
  • Sometimes

• “Too often have we believed the old lie that says we’re bad, we’re perverted, we’re abominations. But those who spread the lie don’t know. They don’t know how we love, how we hurt, how we live.”

  

  William J. Mann
  • Live
  • Lie
  • Abominations

• Stand a little less between me and the sun.

  

  Diogenes
  • Sun

• I think theater is very much my natural home. But the truth is that the older I've got, and the more I've written film and television, I find it incredibly hard to write theater.

  

  Abi Morgan
  • Home
  • Truth

• That's critical to me, the community. When I was 12 years old, I had a mental breakdown; I went berserk for a long time. I felt rejection from the white community. Couldn't understand why the pigmentation of my skin kept me from doing. Everybody always told me "You're going to be something." And of course, I began to raise questions about why it is that white folks treat us the way they do. The breakdown was very vivid. I just all of a sudden felt like I had been overcome by a train.

  

  Cecil Williams
  • Community
  • White
  • Rejection

• We fight, even against insurmountable odds, because sometimes we win.

  

  Billy Parish