Barbara Park Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
-
I was born in Canada for a reason. It was because my parents wanted me to have the freedoms that this country offers.
-
To power the country by building 186,000 fifty-story wind turbines - and running 19,000 miles of new transmission lines - just seems impractical and preposterous compared to the idea of building a hundred new nuclear facilities primarily on the sites we already have.
-
We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.
-
I just thought any workout that is effective and I can do while laying down I'm signing up for.
-
If you want to get your point across, you gotta cuss.
-
I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.
-
I think you're lucky if you discover what you really love at a young age. College wasn't something I was going to do. I wanted to keep acting, and I didn't want to go to New York or California and pound the pavement.
-
We are ready to work hard, work together to re-elect President Barack Obama. We must do it because women deserve to make their own choices and determine the course of their lives.
-
Working together was a bit of a disaster. I'd tell him his ideas were cr*p and he'd say the same about mine.
-
I hope Greece is going to remain in the Euro zone.
-
I'll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can't go back in life. I won't go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way.
-
As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.
-
I condemn any form of terrorism and especially the terrorism that would affect my country and me.
-
I was never one of those surly teenagers who doesn't smile. My lovely godfather said it was always lovely to see me because I was the only teenager who smiled. And I was so in awe of him, I thought it was one of the best things anyone had ever said to me. So it made me want to live up to what he said.
-
I was naturalized right before Pearl Harbor. Nine days later, I would have been classified as an enemy alien. I might have been sent to a camp.
-
I went to school and studied music for a year at USC, which unlocked a bunch of doors for me in terms of my relationship to music.
-
On certain, delicate subjects, bringing in outsiders to talk about values is pertinent because pupils listen to them more attentively.
-
What's not to love about a crazy cat lady? You have to be very giving to be a crazy cat lady.
-
Internet safety begins at home and that is why my legislation would require the Federal Trade Commission to design and publish a unique website to serve as a clearinghouse and resource for parents, teachers and children for information on the dangers of surfing the Internet.
-
I like being around people who are good conversationalists. When there's a give and take, and you are heightening an idea, exploring it together, that is my favorite thing in the world. I love a small dinner party - let's say six people, max, where everybody's having the same conversation. That's my favorite thing in the world.
-
I felt that not only in my book but in novels in general there was something that truly agitated me, a bare and throbbing heart . . . But was that what I wanted? To write, to write with purpose, to write better than I had already? And to study the stories of the past and the present to understand how they worked, and to learn, learn everything about the world with the sole purpose of constructing living hearts ...
-
My favorite place to read is next to the pond in my backyard.
-
Of all the novels I've written, my favorite is 'Mick Harte Was Here'.
