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Yeah. Floyd is his batman."
His what?"
Batman, like in the British army, each officer had ...
ROBERT B. PARKER

College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I&...
ROBERT B. PARKER

Well, you give me too much credit for foresight and planning. I haven't got a clue what the hell...
ROBERT B. PARKER

It was not just that Ross Macdonald taught us how to write; he did something much more, he taught us...
ROBERT B. PARKER

Pearl was hurring around my apartment, sniffing everything, including Rich Beaumont and Patty Giacom...
ROBERT B. PARKER

I pulled the MG in beside him at the curb and he got in.
"This thing ain't big enough for eithe...
ROBERT B. PARKER

'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading publ...
ROBERT B. PARKER

If you want to write, write it. That's the first rule. And send it in, and send it in to someone...
ROBERT B. PARKER

Thank you sir," she said. "I hope that your friend feels better soon."
I shrugged. "The ways of...
ROBERT B. PARKER

How about the wrong crowd," I said. "You getting in with them?"
"Not much luck," Paul said. "I'...
ROBERT B. PARKER

I took my .38 out and looked to see that there were bullets in all the proper places. I knew there w...
ROBERT B. PARKER

Has anyone ever told you," I said, "that you coalesce reality?"
"No. They only say that I'm goo...
ROBERT B. PARKER

After a while I got hungry and went to the kitchen. There was nothing to eat. I drank another beer a...
ROBERT B. PARKER

...You have any suggestions, make them. I'm in charge but humble. No need to salute when you see me....
ROBERT B. PARKER There are technical ebbs and flows in the market and this is a technical bounce.
ROBERT PARKER He is a very dangerous individual and we are very glad to have him back in custody.
ROBERT PARKER Well, you give me too much credit for foresight and planning. I haven't got a clue what the hell I'm...
ROBERT PARKER This is not a screenplay. I don't do twenty drafts. I'm not going to show this to you until it's pub...
ROBERT PARKER My older son who is, I think, here tonight, is forty-one years old. Which is odd because so am I.
ROBERT PARKER Their Spenser, Robert Urich, is big, graceful, good-looking and young (a runner-up in the Robert B. ...
ROBERT PARKER It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I ...
ROBERT PARKER I don't imagine I would have chosen to spend the last twenty-six years of my life writing about a ch...
ROBERT PARKER The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickl...
ROBERT B. REICH

Kant in fact offers four distinct arguments in defence of the necessity and importance of examples i...
ROBERT B. LOUDEN

There must be some reason why a man must be convinced, while a woman must be persuaded.
ROBERT B. FLEMING It was at Bell Labs that I first made direct contact with real semiconductor experts and thus began ...
ROBERT B. LAUGHLIN The questions worth asking, in other words, come not from other people but from nature, and are for ...
ROBERT B. LAUGHLIN My mother, who was professional schoolteacher, was particularly concerned about our formal education...
ROBERT B. LAUGHLIN The truly gifted negotiator, then, is one whose initial position is exaggerated enough to allow for ...
ROBERT B. CIALDINI I also taught myself how to blow glass using a propane torch from the hardware store and managed to ...
ROBERT B. LAUGHLIN

[I]t is important to underscore Kant’s basic point that the finitude of the human condition implie...
ROBERT B. LOUDEN Embarrassment is a villain to be crushed.
ROBERT B. CIALDINI

I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
B. B. KING

I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided ...
B. B. KING

I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on ...
B. B. KING

I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown o...
B. B. KING

Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high sc...
B. B. KING

Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: A...
B. B. KING

I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are Go...
B. B. KING

The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit asha...
B. B. KING

My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I w...
B. B. KING

Sometimes I just think that there are more things to be said to make the audience understand what I&...
B. B. KING

I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, b...
B. B. KING

Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you...
B. B. KING

Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
B. B. KING

I never wanted to be like other blues singers. I might like hearing them play, but I've never wa...
B. B. KING

Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's...
B. B. KING

I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.
B. B. KING

The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
B. B. KING

Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
B. B. KING

If my fans want to do something for me when that time comes, I say, don't waste your money on me...
B. B. KING

Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.
B. B. KING

People all over the world have problems. And as long as people have problems, the blues can never di...
B. B. KING

We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
B. B. KING

I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
B. B. KING

Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. Wh...
B. B. KING

If criticism has made such discoveries as to necessitate the abandonment of the doctrine of plenary ...
B. B. WARFIELD

I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I u...
B. B. KING

Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
B. B. KING

I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Er...
B. B. KING

I almost chopped my thumb off once. Just before I left home, I was about ten or eleven years old, an...
B. B. KING

I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never th...
B. B. KING

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
B. B. KING

When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are...
B. B. KING

I used to play - when I first started trying to be professional, I disk jockey from 1949 to 1955 in ...
B. B. KING

I was a singing disc jockey who heard every type of music there was - and loved it all.
B. B. KING

'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thoug...
B. B. KING

If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything ...
B. B. KING

I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie [Ray Vaughan] missed on bo...
B. B. KING

When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it'll happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on sta...
B. B. KING

I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, g...
B. B. KING

I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music...
B. B. KING

My wife Martha used to call me Ol' Lemon Face because of my facial contortions when I play Lucil...
B. B. KING

I tell my children now that they are older, 'If something happens to me... don't make no big...
B. B. KING

I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played,...
B. B. KING

The minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.
B. B. KING

The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still com...
B. B. KING

I got a chance to ride today on a very nice bus and from my window I can see how beautiful this coun...
B. B. KING

My dad died, I think, at 87. So I'll be lucky if I make 87. But in a lot of cases, the younger p...
B. B. KING

Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'c...
B. B. KING

Whenever I'm in Kansas City, I think back to all the jazz-blues greats who played the blues here...
B. B. KING

I think of guitar players in terms of doctors: you have the doctor for your heart, the cardiologist,...
B. B. KING

As for my band, well, my mentors were Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Jimmie Lunceford, and no one ha...
B. B. KING

I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always o...
B. B. KING

We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
B. B. KING

I think the clock is ticking, yes. In fact, I know it is. Frank Sinatra sang about the September of ...
B. B. KING

When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. P...
B. B. KING

Growing up on the plantation there in Mississippi, I would work Monday through Saturday noon. I'...
B. B. KING

When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So ...
B. B. KING

In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caug...
B. B. KING

It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asl...
B. B. KING

I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two...
B. B. KING

I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
B. B. KING

My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her t...
B. B. KING

Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then...
B. B. KING

I've seen myself on those lists of the 100 best guitarists, and if they think that I'm that ...
B. B. KING

I was a regular hand when I was 7. I picked cotton. I drove tractors. Children grew up not thinking ...
B. B. KING

You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you...
B. B. KING

I've been a loner all the time throughout my life... I haven't been the best father... Many ...
B. B. KING

Once in a while, the thumb that fits over the neck of the guitar kinda bothers me a little bit, but ...
B. B. KING

I don't feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unle...
B. B. KING

I've always tried to defend the idea that the blues doesn't have to be sung by a person who ...
B. B. KING

What don't I want to learn? I have how-to books, history, nature. Ain't nobody here saying, ...
B. B. KING

I never use that word, retire.
B. B. KING

I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
B. B. KING

The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still com...
B. B. KING

I'm more careful about my hands than about what I eat and most anything else, because my hands h...
B. B. KING

I didn't want to disrespect my parents, so I never played blues around the house. But I knew the...
B. B. KING

Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and the...
B. B. KING

A lot of people believe what other people say.
B. B. KING

If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're ...
B. B. KING

I don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends.
B. B. KING

When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace ...
B. B. KING

I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
B. B. KING

I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
B. B. KING

I guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King.
B. B. KING

Do I love the road? Honestly? No - but it's how I earn my living. I also don't have the blue...
B. B. KING

I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
B. B. KING

The problem is that a lot of the blues stations are late on Saturday night, and like a lot of people...
B. B. KING

I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
B. B. KING

I have a nice car, a Mercedes. And then I have an old El Camino truck that I'm crazy about. I li...
B. B. KING

If you can't get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
B. B. KING

If there was no ladies, I wouldn't wanna be on the planet. Ladies, friends, and music - without ...
B. B. KING

There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
B. B. KING

Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too.
B. B. KING

I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
B. B. KING Patience is indispensable in the life of the Muslim.
NA'IMA B. ROBERT

When I was in sixth grade there was a talent show, and I wrote my first sketch, 'The Dentist....
TREY PARKER

The real business of life is trying to understand each other.
GILBERT PARKER We have a tendency to sugar coat the Civil Rights movement by showing arm in arm and everyone singin...
NATE PARKER

You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you&...
PARKER STEVENSON In theory, I stick to how I could eat if I lived a thousand years ago. I take processed foods off th...
PARKER YOUNG I go to this gym in Hollywood: it's a Cross Fit gym. It's basically just a really high inten...
PARKER YOUNG I actually was the captain of the football team. I went to Catalina Foothills High School, and I pla...
PARKER YOUNG Dinner for me is usually some version of chicken or fish - I love salmon - with grilled vegetables a...
PARKER YOUNG I've dated girls that aren't, this is gonna sound so horrible, that aren't super smart, ...
PARKER YOUNG I'd love to go back to school for philosophy. I love philosophy, so I'm always reading philo...
PARKER YOUNG I read somewhere that abs are made in the kitchen, and I'd like to agree. I like to think that I...
PARKER YOUNG

In 1942, everyone was ready to go and fight for the good guys. It was so simple.
PARKER STEVENSON

If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong...
PARKER STEVENSON

I'm more interested in where I'll be in five or 10 years than where I am now.
PARKER STEVENSON

I was the last one to screen test for The Hardy Boys. I'd like to play that's not as clean-c...
PARKER STEVENSON

I used to a lot. I used to go dancing.
PARKER STEVENSON

I still think of myself really as a New Yorker.
PARKER STEVENSON

I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in...
PARKER STEVENSON

I like people who are enthused about things they do, like travel, sports, work. I like being with pe...
PARKER STEVENSON

I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say ...
PARKER STEVENSON

Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that i...
PARKER STEVENSON

During the time I was on The Hardy Boys, I was also watching other people's careers. I thought t...
PARKER STEVENSON

The Hardy Boys burned me out. I was recharging my batteries. It was time to return to work, but it w...
PARKER STEVENSON

I almost rented a house by an architect named Schindler, but I couldn't afford it. It was a jewe...
PARKER STEVENSON

What I do is not some magical, mystical thing. I simply get up in the morning, get to work on time, ...
PARKER STEVENSON

The first two pictures I did, I played a young student in prep school. When I did Lifeguard, everyon...
PARKER STEVENSON

I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeas...
PARKER STEVENSON

My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.
PARKER STEVENSON

I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initiall...
PARKER STEVENSON

California lacks a lot of the rules and restrictions the East has. Every house is a different style,...
PARKER STEVENSON

If I have a Sunday free, I'll go up the coast and spend some time on the beach. I scuba dive and...
PARKER STEVENSON

I'm going to go away on vacation, I'm going to try to get away from the phone, away from scr...
PARKER STEVENSON

I made a classic mistake. I held out for something better.
PARKER STEVENSON

I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette...
PARKER STEVENSON

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