William Parrish Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.
-
I'm tired of defending my character. I am what I am.
-
I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched by my mother's gift for analysis.
-
I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.
-
You don't choose a party because it's the flavour of the month. I feel I will be able to work under a political system. I feel if people like me don't enter politics to bring change, who will?
-
Humor is an antidote to all ills.
-
Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
-
I was captain in Atletico at 19, playing in the same team as Demetrio Albertini, who won three Champions Leagues, and Sergi Barjuan from Barcelona, who had won everything, and they were 32, 33. I was a kid as captain, so I wasn't the real captain, just a kid learning from them.
-
O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
-
The rules are all in a sixty-four-page pamphlet by Aristotle called 'Poetics.' It was written almost three thousand years ago, but I promise you, if something is wrong with what you're writing, you've probably broken one of Aristotle's rules.
-
As an actor, you're sort of the court-appointed lawyer for the character.
-
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
-
Life is tragic and absurd, and none of it has any purpose at all.
-
In fighting terror, you cannot let it interfere with the normal life of civilians in Israel.
-
Mexican immigration poses challenges to our policies and to our identity in a way nothing else has in the past.
-
I believe in peace-building in any kind of platform, be it a political platform like Parliament or negotiations like peace-building negotiations.
-
Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows.
-
The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction - there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and obstacles that must be overcome.
-
The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.
-
One of the great difficulties as you rise up through an organisation is that your prior competencies are exploded and broken apart by the territory you've been promoted into: the field of human identity.
-
When did the word 'compromise' get compromised? When did the negative connotations of 'He was caught in a compromising position' or 'She compromised her ethics' replace the positive connotations of 'They reached a compromise'?
-
Everything becomes connected, and cyber security becomes the top issue for CEOs. An average company has 40-60 security vendors, and they have a violation every three months with viruses.
-
I want you to sing with rapture and dance like a dervish.
