Dr Parnassus Quotes & Sayings

I don't think a woman should be in any government job whatever. I mean, I really don't. The reason why I do is mainly because they are erratic. And emotional. — Richard M. Nixon

You don't know who a person is until you see how he acts when given unexpected power. He hasn't rehearsed for the part. So what you see is what he is. — Orson Scott Card

It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project. — Herbie Hancock

We were not as rich as the Rockefellers or Mellons, but we were rich enough to know how rich they were. — Louis Auchincloss

Earthly pride is like the passing flower, that springs to fall, and blossoms but to die. — Henry Kirke White

Every person, every race, every nation, has its own particular keynote which it brings to the general chord of life and of humanity. — Annie Besant

Before me, even as behind, God is, and all is well. — John Greenleaf Whittier

The first person you have to inspire every day is yourself. Running will do that. — Marc Parent

When it comes to cyber conflicts between, say, America and China or even a Middle Eastern nation, an African nation, a Latin American nation, a European nation, we have more to lose. — Edward Snowden

a man like me, who does not work, who does not want to work, will always be disliked.
In that house full of working people , I was the madman that, deep down, everyone wanted to be. I was the one who went without food, the cinema, warm clothes, to be free. I was the one who, without meaning to, daily reminded people of their wretched state.
people have not forgiven me for being free and for not being afraid of poverty. — Emmanuel Bove

The thing about living without a father if he's always gone is that it takes a long time to realize he isn't coming home. — Stephen Rodrick

All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly. — Edward Abbey

A Dr van 't Hoff of the veterinary college at Utrecht ... finds it a less arduous task to mount Pegasus (evidently borrowed from the veterinary school) and to proclaim in his La Chemie dans l' espace how, during his bold fight to the top of the chemical Parnassus, the atoms appeared to him to have grouped themselves together throughout universal space ... I should have taken no notice of this matter had not Wislicenus oddly enough written a preface to the pamphlet, and not by way of a joke but in all seriousness recommended it a worthwhile performance. — Hermann Kolbe

Sleep well, gentlemen, for tomorrow we become connoisseurs of shite. — James K. Morrow

Patriarchal life, you're out of date/Patriarchal life, get out of the way! — Planningtorock

Joe didn't like talking so much. He had already used more words in this room than he had in the past month. But he had no choice but to continue. Self-doubt began to creep into his consciousness, like a black storm cloud easing over the top of the mountains. He wasn't sure this was a job he could do well, a role he could play competently. Joe liked working the margins, keeping his mouth shut, observing from the sidelines. He did his best to block out the image of the thunderhead rolling over. — C.J. Box