Gilbert Parker Quotes

The real business of life is trying to understand each other.

Gilbert Parker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: politician
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: November 23, 1862 - September 6, 1932

Topics

LifeBusinessTryingUnderstandReal

The cost of building large airships can be prohibitive. The entry barrier is considerable and could be a show-stopper for large-scale projects.

Jens Martin Skibsted

BuildingCostLargeLarge-Scale

I can walk down the street, and 85 percent of the people on the block are really quite oblivious to me. They either think I'm probably an actor or else I installed their storm windows two years ago, or I work at their bank, or maybe I'm their cousin Marie's gynecologist. Then, to the other 15 percent of those people on the street, I'm a rock star.

Robert Picardo

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I have encountered on this long road an enthusiasm for an Irishness which will be built on recognising again those sources from which spring the best of our reason and curiosity.

Michael D. Higgins

BestSpringCuriosityRoadLong

In 1984, as a college freshman, I spent a fall weekend at a friend's house in suburban Chicago. His father worked for Beatrice Foods, a sponsor of the Chicago Marathon, and we watched that race from the finish line as a Welshman named Steve Jones set a new world marathon record. I was bewitched by the race and, especially, the clock.

Steve Rushin

FriendFatherCollegeWorldWeekend

I've got ambitions. I've always been very ambitious. But I think there's something nice about not saying all of my dreams, in case they don't happen and then it's just really embarrassing.

Sigrid

DreamsSayingThinkNiceAlways

I wasn't frightened of people, but I didn't have a clue about the adult world.

Shirley Henderson

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One week before my 17th birthday, I had a blind date with June Rose, a television actress on network soap operas, a model, and a regular on the popular Dick Clark's Saturday night 'American Bandstand' show from New York. We were married five years later, one week after my graduation from Columbia.

Robert C. Merton

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The team that is the most focused and executes the best is the team that wins. That's usually the team that can handle the pressure of the situation.

Michael Strahan

BestTeamPressureSituationFocused

It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased.

Josh Tillman

ExperienceThinkVanityLegitimate

When I realized, in 1978, that Lucy did represent a new species of human ancestor, and that I had an opportunity to name this new species, I realized this was a revolutionary step in understanding human origins.

Donald Johanson

OpportunityStepNameUnderstanding

In order to crash the party and be a clown with your own skit, you had to be there for quite a while.

David Strathairn

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I'm real bent on dialogue. I'm just a little bit crazy and when you put that along with 20 years as a criminal lawyer, it's pretty easy to come up with some interesting plots.

Christopher Darden

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