Jack Parr Quotes & Sayings

Please tell me you don't go around saying crap like that to everyone. No wonder no one in town ever talks to us. Wealthy families always have a crazy person or two. Is that really the role you want to play, Vi?"
"We're not wealthy anymore. Remember? So if I'm crazy, no one will care. — April Genevieve Tucholke

I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and why I drank them when I did and why I picked the grapes and where I opened the oldest procurable bottles, and all that, than I can remember living before I breathed. — M.F.K. Fisher

When I meet girls, I pray that they don't know who I am. But I know that's limiting myself quite a lot. — Douglas Booth

All these years you've been searching and looking and trying to change things, trying to add thing onto yourself, trying to acquire things when you have been the source of everything to begin with. Everything you've been looking for has been within yourself you have been that. You then begin to surrender everything to yourself. You surrender all of your thoughts, all of your feelings, you surrender all of your desires, all of your wants to the Self. You pull it in all inwardly. — Robert Adams

Education is one of the main ways that communities pass on their values and traditions from one generation to the next. — Ken Robinson

The jangle of the telephone rousted Matt out of a deep sleep. He never dreamed. Dreams were too messy. — Peggy Webb

The only thing you live to regret are the risks you didn't take — Zachary Scott

Everyone is in such a hurry. People haven't found meaning in their lives, so they're running all the time looking for it. They think the next car, the next house, the next job. Then they find those things are empty, too, and they keep running. Once you start running, it's hard to slow yourself down. — Mitch Albom

People quickly grow accustomed to being the slaves of mystery. — Guillaume Apollinaire

I know it can be difficult for parents, but I really do believe that kids need to play the predominant role in the choices that go into their own space. — Candice Olson

I live by the belief that if you work hard and do the best you can, at the end of the day sleep comes easily for the dollar that was earned honestly. It was a lesson instilled by my parents. It was a lesson that I have always followed and found to be quite accurate. — John-Talmage Mathis

We're all Bolsheviks now," Izzie said blithely. "And at my table!" Hugh said and laughed. — Kate Atkinson

Children are often better actors than adults because they have a greater capacity for believing in a situation. — Alexander Mackendrick