William Parks Quotes

Christmas is not just a day, an event to be observed and speedily forgotten. It is a spirit which should permeate every part of our lives.

William Parks

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• Ultimately, I'm not the most prolific person, but I've been doing this for a long time, and I keep on putting out music. The only thing that drives music is the people who are making it.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• Our life ripples out, and it has influence. That's why it's important that we're at our best and that we're influencing others for the good.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • Good
  • Important

• I had strong legs that would have made me a good sumo wrestler and I used that to my advantage, but my home runs were achieved by technique.

  

  Sadaharu Oh
  • Good
  • Home
  • Strong

• If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.

  

  La Monte Young
  • Heaven
  • Communication
  • Away

• To make a couple putts to win the Masters is just an amazing feeling.

  

  Adam Derek Scott
  • Feeling
  • Amazing
  • Couple

• The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • School
  • Society
  • Very

• Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Man
  • Yourself
  • Advocate

• My grandad was a miner. My father, brother, and uncles all work in industry.

  

  Faye Marsay
  • Work
  • Father
  • Brother

• I'll eat anything. I love food in general. I love traditional Mexican, carne asada. Just meat, beans, rice, and some good salsa.

  

  Becky G
  • Good
  • Food
  • Traditional

• Cricket is my first love.

  

  Yohan Blake
  • Love
  • Cricket
  • First Love

• Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

  

  Sam Ewing
  • People
  • May
  • Success

• All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Give
  • Compromise
  • Surrender

• Yes, I was the child who would sneak into her closet and read 'Nancy Drew' for hours after the designated 'lights out' time of night.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Time
  • Night
  • Child

• My parents were in 'Brigadoon' on Broadway when I was a couple of years old.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Parents
  • Couple
  • Years

• I knew if I had gone to school - if I had gone to Juilliard and danced for four years - I would have spent every day wondering what would have happened if I had gone to Los Angeles instead.

  

  Jacob Artist
  • School
  • Day
  • Everyday

• I well recall my emotions when I came upon the grave of Beethoven in the Central Friedhof, with its incomparable guard of honor - Mozart, Schubert, Gluck, Brahms, Hugo Wolf and Johann Strauss!

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Honor
  • Wolf

• You know what's funny to me? Attitude.

  

  Don Rickles
  • Funny
  • Attitude

• Just in terms of the opportunity I've gotten is amazing. I consider myself super, super, super lucky.

  

  Ansel Elgort
  • Opportunity
  • Amazing

• The Prussian Academy of Sciences is a fast-track academic institute that requires a proactive, hands-on-type individual to overthrow the Newtonian conception of the universe. The successful candidate will have an excellent command of mass, energy, space, time and some maths. Bonus paid upon completion of proofs.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Space

• Somehow we just don't make the same boisterous fun of Holy Week that we do of Christmas. No one plans to have a holly, jolly Easter.

  

  Frederica Mathewes-Green
  • Fun
  • Christmas
  • Easter

• I don't really know how to thank the Academy for this. And if I try we'll be here till Christmas. So I better get on...

  

  Emma Thompson
  • Christmas

• Oliver laughed - actually laughed."I like this new Claire," he said. "You should work her this hard all the time, Myrnin. She's interesting when she's forthright." Claire, possessed by the spirit of Eve, shot him the finger. Which made him laugh again, shake his head, and walk up the steps.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• Christmas is not just a day, an event to be observed and speedily forgotten. It is a spirit which should permeate every part of our lives.

  

  William Parks
  • Spirit
  • Should
  • Christmas