Suzy Parker (Cecilia Ann Renee Parker) Quotes

I believe in the gold standard. I like solid lumps of things. You can always melt them down.

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• What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Life
  • Work
  • Attention

• When a single author uploading his own books to Amazon can earn more money than a large N.Y. publisher exploiting both print and e-rights, there's something amiss.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Money
  • Single
  • Author

• Having my own family has made me realise there's more to life than chasing the next job.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Life
  • Family
  • Job

• I think Barack Obama has brought a new level of ethical standards to Washington. Has he changed some basic hard-knuckle politics? No. You need hard-knuckle politics to succeed.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Think
  • Politics
  • Succeed

• I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Memories
  • Special
  • Spectacle

• When the motor was completed and tested, we found that it would develop 16 horse power for a few seconds, but that the power rapidly dropped till, at the end of a minute, it was only 12 horse power.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Power
  • End
  • Horse

• I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • People
  • Work
  • Negative

• Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Men
  • Women
  • Immigrants

• Anything that's on television as often as someone on 'The X Factor' is what's successful. That doesn't mean that I condone that or think that it's right. To be honest, I'd be the first to say I think it's a shame. But if that's the way it is then that's the way it is.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Think
  • Successful
  • First

• There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Real
  • Culture
  • Years

• There's a lot more pressure on me at United. There are people out there trying to shoot you down.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • People
  • Trying
  • Pressure

• There seems little doubt in my mind that depression, in particular at the severe end of the experience of this condition, is as real a disorder as diabetes is at the severe end of blood glucose levels.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • Mind
  • Real
  • Experience

• Jack Nicklaus is the greatest winner I've ever seen.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Greatest
  • Winner
  • Seen

• I was a fan of Jon Jones. I thought he was great.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Great
  • Thought
  • Fan

• For me to own land in Detroit, it was a badge of honor, and it was support for the city.

  

  Manuel Moroun
  • Support
  • City
  • Honor

• I always compare human beings to animals. It's a nice way to figure out who they are.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Nice
  • Human
  • Animals

• Rhyme, the rack of finest wits, That expresseth but by fits, True conceit, Spoiling senses of their treasure, Cozening judgement with a measure, But false weight. Wresting words from their true calling; Propping verse, for fear of falling To the ground. Jointing syllables, drowning letters, Fastening vowels, as with fetters They were bound!

  

  Ben Jonson
  • True
  • Words
  • Fear

• The rich man... is always sold to the institution which makes him rich.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

• Growing up in the '70s and '80s, science fiction and especially fantasy had such a stigma attached to them. I felt so punished and exiled for being devoted to these things.

  

  Lev Grossman
  • Up
  • Science
  • Growing

• Who is there that ever receives a gift and tries to make bargains about it? Let us, then, return thanks for what He has bestowed on us. Who can tell whether, if we had had a larger share of ability or stronger health, we should not have possessed them to our destruction.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • Health
  • Gift
  • Thanks

• There is so much inherent drama in the matter of change. Disappointment in yourself and others, coping with the fact that life is essentially shipwreck, becoming a person you yourself could not imagine yourself to be, for good and for bad, and then ultimately there is the basic matter of loss.

  

  Jane Hamilton
  • Life
  • Good
  • Bad

• I get daily mentions in blogs, I get mentions in Twitter and in different social media... I know that gets books sold.

  

  Joachim de Posada
  • Different
  • Daily

• Design is a conscious and intuitive effort to impose meaningful order. Design is both the underlying matrix of order and the tool that creates it.

  

  Victor Papanek
  • Effort
  • Design
  • Meaningful

• I believe in the gold standard. I like solid lumps of things. You can always melt them down.

  

  Suzy Parker
  • Believe
  • Gold Standard
  • Melt