Evan Parker Quotes

I'd met Roscoe in Europe quite a few times over the years, and we'd say hi and so on, but this was the first time we'd actually played together.

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• It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Would
  • Put
  • Spiteful

• I was cast in 'Thor' and I'm cast as a Nordic god. If you know anything about the Nords, they don't look like me but there you go. I think that's a sign of the times for the future. I think we will see multi-level casting. I think we will see that, and I think that's good.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Good
  • God
  • Future

• Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Remember
  • Look
  • Act

• You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Fun
  • Journey
  • Enjoy

• There's been an unfortunate history of efforts to make sure Florida's votes don't count. Given that history, it's clear why people here would be especially concerned about efforts undertaken by Super PACs and the corporations that fund them to dictate the outcome of elections.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • People
  • Why
  • History

• As a writer, Chris Columbus was a big influence. 'The Goonies' was the first movie I ever saw that kids speak normally and not imagined how kids would talk. Always a big fan of Chris Columbus' dialogue and storytelling.

  

  Adam Green
  • Kids
  • Movie
  • Speak

• Writing for theatre is certainly different to writing an essay or any other kind of fiction or prose: it's physical. You're also telling a story, but sometimes the story isn't exactly what you intend; maybe you uncover something you had no idea you were going to uncover.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Story

• I believe the gun has no power at all.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Gun

• Today, political events are nullified unless they're on TV.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Today
  • Political
  • Events

• I approached the problem of utility measurement in 1923 during a stay in Paris. There were three objects I had in view :

  

  Ragnar Frisch
  • Paris

• Most things still remain to be done!

  

  Ingvar Kamprad
  • Done

• The facts of science, as they appeared to him Heraclitus, fed the flame in his soul, and in its light, he saw into the depths of the world.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • World
  • Soul
  • Science

• With his death, we have lost a very great chess genius whose like we'll never see again.

  

  Alexander Alekhine
  • Great
  • Death
  • Lost

• Neither fairness nor justice, neither reality nor humanity can be simulated or manipulated by wires or remote controls.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Reality
  • Justice
  • Humanity

• One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself.

  

  Kim Stanley Robinson

• For me, law school was a time of joy and hope. Joy in learning my way around the law - learning how to orbit a problem and to ask myself hard questions and to be asked hard questions. Hope that I could be of some use, to be part of the greater good - to make the world a little bit better.

  

  James Comey
  • Time
  • World
  • Good

• Torrid was that company that I went to as a plus-sized kid. They're the ones that kind of got me out of my shell and gave me the confidence that I needed to experiment with my wardrobe, and they really inspired me to become a plus-size designer.

  

  Ashley Nell Tipton
  • Confidence
  • Inspired

• Charm, I think, is education, really, no? I was educated to be nice to everybody. If you want to be rude and mean, I'm sure your life isn't that nice.

  

  Mario Testino
  • Life
  • Education
  • Nice

• Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.

  

  Desiderius Erasmus
  • Great
  • Guilty

• I want to be a partner with business, labor, civic leaders, foundations, other churches so that we can work together... If I can talk to all of these people and have something in common, maybe I can get them to see that they also have something in common with each other when we come together.

  

  Blase J. Cupich
  • People
  • Work
  • Business

• You can easily put together your own favorite spice blend, whether that's a salt and pepper mixture or you're adding herbs to it or Creole spice. Just watch out for the sodium content. That why I encourage you to make your own.

  

  Emeril Lagasse
  • Why
  • Together

• Apparently almost anyone can do a better job of educating children than our so-called 'educators' in the public schools. Children who are home-schooled by their parents also score higher on tests than children educated in the public schools. ... Successful education shows what is possible, whether in charter schools, private schools, military schools or home-schooling. The challenge is to provide more escape hatches from failing public schools, not only to help those students who escape, but also to force these institutions to get their act together before losing more students and jobs.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Children
  • School
  • Together

• When you do a comedy, the goals are much clearer to me.

  

  Luke Wilson
  • Comedy
  • Goals

• I'd met Roscoe in Europe quite a few times over the years, and we'd say hi and so on, but this was the first time we'd actually played together.

  

  Evan Parker
  • Together
  • Europe
  • Played