Philip Parkin Quotes & Sayings

There are 400,000 species of beetles on this planet, but only 8,000 species of mammals. — John B. S. Haldane

I'm a condition, not a man. — J.D. Salinger

The most important function of art and science is to
Awaken the cosmic religious feeling and keep it alive. — Albert Einstein

Martin Luther said, "You cannot keep birds from flying over your head but you can keep them from building a nest in your hair." You can't keep the Devil from suggesting thoughts, but you can choose not to dwell or act on them. — Rick Warren

The tradition of always looking for the answer in the most fundamental way available - that is a great tradition, and it saves a lot of time in this world. — Charlie Munger

For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told. — Anonymous

I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of the Rings was like stepping into a videogame for me. It was another world completely. But, to be honest, I basically did it so that I could have the ears. I thought they would really work with my bare head.Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it. — Cate Blanchett

The pen is my true salvation. God is not. — Khali Raymond

It was funny. The adults taking all this so seriously, and the children playing
along, playing along, believing it too until suddenly the adults went too far, tried too hard, and the children
could see through their game. — Orson Scott Card

Music can really affect the intensity of a workout. I love having it during cardio especially. — Jamie Eason

There was a baseball game on but it didn't look real. It was guys in uniforms playing games on a deep green field. They were playing baseball as if baseball was important and as if all the world wasn't in jail, watching them from a completely different world. — Walter Dean Myers

Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal - 'translatable' into any cultural idiom. — Nancy Pearcey

And it is silence that she hears, the silence of lost years that have no voice left in them. — Rose Tremain

In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle. — Lemony Snicket