Robert M. Parker, Jr. Quotes

When I began visiting Bordeaux in 1979, only a handful of writers were there to taste the wines in the spring (and nearly all were British).

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 23, 1947

Topics

SpringTasteBritishOnlyVisiting

I feel like in the reading I did when I was growing up, and also in the way that people talk and tell stories here in the South, they use a lot of figurative language. The stories that I heard when I was growing up, and the stories that I read, taught me to use the kind of language that I do. It's hard for me to work against that when I am writing.

Jesmyn Ward

WorkI AmPeopleMeGrowing UpFeel

I was performing from the age of three.

Jennifer Ellison

AgeThreePerforming

I have no words for my reality.

Max Frisch

WordsRealityNo Words

Conor McGregor set this bar, and I'm trying to break it. If you're not trying to break it, then why are you in the game?

Max Holloway

GameTryingYouWhyBarBreak

I grew up in Indiana. My first four years of elementary were in the gym where Coach Wooden went to high school.

Steve Alford

SchoolHigh SchoolGymCoachHigh

The truth is that since childhood I had cultivated an existential independence. It came from perceiving the adults around me as unreliable, and without it I felt I wouldn't have survived. I cared deeply for everyone in my family, but in the end I depended on myself.

Sonia Sotomayor

FamilyTruthMyselfChildhoodMe

I always dreamed of playing a show with Bono and Edge and the guys in Green Day.

Trombone Shorty

DayGreenEdgeAlwaysPlayingShow

Women always have to have this soft, maternal, sort of - I don't know - moral center.

Ruth Negga

WomenMoralKnowAlwaysSoftCenter

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Moliere

LiveFoodEatShould

New York came after me aggressively and that's what sealed the deal.

Johnny Damon

New YorkMeNewDealAfterCame

Medical attention and emotional support can be difficult to obtain for those in need, yet both are essential to nurturing healthy futures year round and especially during the holiday season.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

MedicalSupportYearAttentionNeed

To my knowledge, there's never been a scientist in the U.S. Senate.

Peter Agre

KnowledgeNeverBeenSenate

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