would work to bring more jobs here overall - and to make it more of an equal opportunity situation for the jobs that come up in city government. It seems it's more like who you know to get a job here.
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Related The great thing is you can come back one business at a time and get them money and the hope is to br... BILL KONYHA If America wants to lead the world, it needs to make sure new ideas can get to market. More opportun... RAM SHRIRAM Government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less lik... BOB RILEY We need more people here to fill these jobs. DAVID BOUTIN We're through the crossroads. We are going to grow even more, ... We need to be on the lookout worki... JOHN MILLER He's a guy who wants to come here and do well. It seems the more you try, the worse it gets. DUSTY BAKER You have a young, mid-20s girl here who was the daughter of the owner, and another gentleman who jus... AUDAY ARABO If they increase the four or five hotels that they want to, then it will open up for many more jobs ... DON HURLBUT Everyone wants the opportunity to have a good life and make better money. In India, it's hard to get... AMRIK BHELA As legal residents, immigrants would contribute more in taxes, spend more at our businesses, start c... JOSE ANDRES It doesn't make sense that taxpayers in Indiana, for example, should have to pay more for services s... STUART ANDERSON The timing for Kansas City is right. The region has in my opinion the potential to further expand it... JOERG OHLE It's made it more difficult for some of the Japanese transplant companies here to get timely equipme... DON PETERS It just builds an overall respect that probably helps the students more than anyone else, especially... BROOKE DERR I'd be less than honest to say it will be exactly the same here. Government (work) has some sense of... JEFF BUTLER The overall benefit to the state in keeping manufacturing companies and jobs in Connecticut can not ... BONNIE STEWART I was literally just going and applying for jobs, and I couldn't get a job, and I was getting mo... BEN GIBBARD What you have here is an equal protection issue. There is a trend in land use to prefer entities tha... JARED LELAND Was it coaching was it players or did I not do a very good job of bringing in players to give the co... A.J. SMITH There's a basic philosophy here that by empowering...workers you'll make their jobs far more interes... BILL GATES I am very disappointed, ... More jobs mean more people, and that equates to more housing and more re... JACK TAYLOR [The city government has identified space for 3,000 FEMA trailers and is looking for space for up to... DON HUTCHINSON It's an interesting situation. Because a lot of people have time and opportunity, you get more art. ... ALLISON HILL The Bay Area's most heavily represented industries here are in management of companies and enterpris... AMAR MANN This is a mock job interview to get them ready for entry level jobs. Hopefully when they apply for t... KATHY GARIBAY It seems like this year it hasn't been as much of a challenge for retailers to find good quality hol... ELLEN TOLLEY The first thing that we need in Michigan is jobs. That's why I'm running is to create jobs in this s... DICK DEVOS The shortest path to more American jobs is more American energy and more jobs that relate to America... ROY BLUNT We need to work tirelessly to help create new jobs and good jobs here in Florida. TED DEUTCH We need more jobs, and this could help bring in more jobs. We're on a fixed income, so (not increasi... KATHY MOORE Do you want to use your tax dollars to educate more people who can't get jobs? I want to make su... RICK SCOTT More freedom means more jobs... less government and less taxes. TODD AKIN This is not just great for people who live here. This broadens our opportunity to bring more tourist... BRUCE PEPICH I'm for anything that lets people come here to work legally. There are more protections for work... LARRY CRAIG Those 3,000 jobs in Sioux Falls, based on our population back then in Sioux Falls, would have taken ... BILL JANKLOW People become more ignorant when it comes to religion. DANIEL MELGAçO Only the film industry can make you an overnight success. Unlike other jobs where you have to work y... SAMANTHA RUTH PRABHU They come and learn about the many types of businesses and jobs that make up a city. BLAKE BRADLEY I knew it was a great job but, the more I dug and the more I came up and the more I interviewed, I r... NORWOOD TEAGUE People who have good jobs in supportive workplaces are more committed. They're more loyal, they're m... ELLEN GALINSKY However, before we make the mistake of patting ourselves on the back, let's remember: government doe... BOB RILEY This is to bring home a message to the new government that they have a mandate to make government mo... GERRY NICHOLLS For example, the supporters of tariffs treat it as self-evident that the creation of jobs is a desir... MILTON FRIEDMAN I would provide more opportunities for the kids of urban communities to go to school and learn trade... WARREN G As you probably know, half of the people who work in this country work for small businesses. And it&... KAREN MILLS Anything that keeps us in the loop so we can track these jobs would be good for the city. It sounds ... JAMES BENNETT I'm for anything that lets people come here to work legally. There are more protections for workers ... LARRY CRAIG Now you have a choice: we can give more tax breaks to corporations that ship jobs overseas, or we ca... BARACK OBAMA How to get it, I annoy you??? You are not interested??? What's the idea??? DEYTH BANGER It's surprising the number of people who come here without jobs. JANET MILLER We need to spend more time here, ... If the show is about personal relationships, we need to expand ... PATRICK DEMPSEY In some of the more energy intensive industries, there would be negative change in jobs. But when yo... JENNIFER MORGAN The job situation seems to be improving, but many people here are still living below the poverty lev... WILLIAM DAVIS Jobs are a priority for every country, ... Doing more to improve regulation and help entrepreneurs i... PAUL WOLFOWITZ With the exception of the March school-board meeting, I think that I would be more available than ma... DAN BONNER It gives kids more opportunity to come in and compete. It's a window of opportunity. We've got good ... GARY ANDERSEN It would be nice if we had something here in the North Country where there were enough good jobs, go... JAMES DAWSON I've done more with a better plan for jobs here in eight days than this president's done in two and ... WESLEY CLARK We will need the cooperation of all segments of San Joaquin County to make this plan work, to achiev... BOB WHEELER In America, when I first came here, they were used to wearing more make-up - thicker foundation, mor... FRANCOIS NARS If we have fewer defense jobs and more casino jobs, you've got a more diverse set of jobs. DOUGLAS FISHER It will give us a chance to get better markets up here because there's more demand for the corn and ... LARRY ANDERSON It is much easier to be accepted if you play like everyone else, and you will get more jobs. It depe... DON ELLIS There were definitely packages that we didn't even use last year. We have a lot more talent, a lot m... ANTOINE WINFIELD You can make more money on unemployment than you can going down and getting one of those jobs that i... SHARRON ANGLE Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it SARA SHEPARD The ones who have been here have been doing more in practice than they would normally. Sometimes the... BUBBA DAVIS They're here to bash on Americans and come here and take our jobs and properties. DANIEL WATERS Barack Obama seems intent on enrolling more people on food stamps. Mitt Romney's focus is going ... MIKE HUCKABEE Umpiring was more of a side job for my father. Matter of fact, most of the guys, they still had to w... BYRON MOTLEY There is a culture whereby it's more likely for women to work in distribution jobs than in trading. CLARE HARRIS DIGNITY OF LABOR indicates that all types of jobs are respected equally, and no occupation is consid... DIGNITY,LABOR,INDICATES,TYPES,JOBS,RESPECTED,EQUALLY,,OCCUPATION,CONSIDERED,SUPERIOR,LIVELIHOOD,INVO When Mrs. Clinton ran for office, she promised economic growth across New York state, to bring in mo... DAVID BRENNER People don't realize you have to work two to three jobs here to survive. KAREN KRAFFT We already have a large community of talented musicians, actors, filmmakers, you name it, living her... CAROL HUNTER Who uses funds more productively - private citizens or the government? I dare say that Warren Buffet... MARK SKOUSEN I just sent some information about him to a student last week, ... I get inquiries on and off throug... DAVID ANDERSON Powerpoint success: When it comes to presentation do it more like Steve Jobs and less like Bill Gate... LILY CHATTERJEE Do you know that you being here with that gun in your hand is more wondrous than the parting of the ... V.J. CAMPILAN You reduce illegal immigration by making it harder to get jobs here, or easier to get jobs south of ... GAIL COLLINS Business creates jobs; government does not. Government creates a whole slew of jobs each time a new ... RALPH NORMAN It certainly seems they're casting a net much more widely than would be necessary to thwart somethin... MARK SILVERSTEIN We have no interstate, no rail. Every community says they have the answers. My personal opinion? We ... GENE VEEDER It could translate into hundreds of jobs, but we haven't been more specific because we have to get i... DANIEL FRANCISCO We don't want to bring the city to its knees financially. We want to do our jobs safely. FIREFIGHTER DAVID CUMMINS I'm just going to have to turn it up a notch, and get out, knock on doors and tell my story. My stor... GARRY THOMAS Charlotte County is like the hole in the doughnut. There's a lot of opportunity here. There's more p... TIM SHAVE You know," he said, "I keep wanting to say that it's like Simon Snow threw up in here... but it's mo... RAINBOW ROWELL It gives them more incentive to come up here and drive legally without being a citizen. BILLY BARNES I don't know if I want to go to New York. They'll have to pay me a lot more money because I like it ... ROGER MARIS To make it possible for our children, and for our childrens children, to live in a world of peace. T... RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON And that's how we build the economy of the future. An economy with more jobs and less debt, we r... ELIZABETH WARREN They've got some concepts that might work here. They could plug in a model (store) that they would t... ANDY MURPHY I'm just anxious. It seems like its taking so long for track season to get here. JIOVANNA MARTINEZ I've had a lot of seedy side jobs. I've done it all. I've worked retail at the mall, jus... OLESYA RULIN Unusually for social housing of this type, there is nothing institutional about the feel of this bui... MICHAEL DAVIES I knew that everyone would know who we were. There was still an on going business here. It wasn't li... ED SAWYER It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and goo... WILLIAM J. CLINTON We pledge to you that we will create jobs. End economic uncertainty and make America more competitiv... KEVIN MCCARTHY What I've come here today to tell you is, if you make a claim on the bid, you will in essence be try... ALLEN SMITH
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Mr. Reed did a great job of describing and photographing the collection. BARBARA PARKER Rather than let this collection gather dust in my basement
I thought this would be the perfect wa... BARBARA PARKER She was very involved in that sport, diving for the ball, hitting the floor, just getting everything... BARBARA PARKER I've stopped counting at 150 surfers in the water. BARBARA PARKER He said they couldn't play because it would distract the players, ... Distract the players? That's w... BARBARA PARKER There is nothing beautiful about perfection; those imperfections that you hate so much about yoursel... PARKER 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 I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing. PARKER POSEY As an artist, you're always going to be yearning and wanting and never satisfied. I never feel l... PARKER POSEY Hey, the TV was my friend. As a child, I always said, 'I want to live in there someday.' PARKER POSEY I love bayou life. PARKER POSEY I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old sch... PARKER POSEY I'm glad I'm Southern. I'm the Southerner who's very Southern in that she left to mo... PARKER POSEY Louis C.K. was able to make it happen. His producers don't bug him. He's able to go into his... PARKER POSEY They love putting me in the 'indie queen' box. I had some high standards in my 20s that I do... PARKER POSEY I like finding things in locations where I've worked and things from down South and things from ... PARKER POSEY You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you ... PARKER POSEY I have a twin brother, so I was around guys like a sister. It was comfortable to me. PARKER POSEY The sound of a golf game is very different than the sound of a football game. PARKER POSEY It sounds so dramatic, but I'll say it: Hollywood just doesn't know what to do with me. And ... PARKER POSEY The five patients in 'Rethinking Cancer' share with us the path of their recovery: the coura... PARKER POSEY I really liked playing a vampire. Their hunger is insatiable. Even when they eat someone, it's n... PARKER POSEY I'm kind of a robot in a way. Or a Tron. PARKER POSEY I'm a good girl, you know? But I'm from the South, and there are some powerful women down th... PARKER POSEY I wouldn't say I was a queen. Maybe a little elf. PARKER POSEY I care about being creative and expressing myself. PARKER POSEY What's the difference between a personality disorder and a personality? You know? That's wha... PARKER POSEY I traveled to Morocco once, and I only saw one television when I was there, but I did go into this d... PARKER POSEY I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, dee... PARKER POSEY There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers wit... PARKER POSEY They're like a weird couple. If you were to personify the artichoke and the oyster, they would h... PARKER POSEY I like sitting close to windows. PARKER POSEY Whatever America's founders believed about Christianity - and they believed a wide range of thin... PARKER PALMER Proposing inner-life solutions to our political and economic catastrophes is something done, say the... PARKER PALMER There are a million 'oughts' in the world. There's a million ways in which I ought to be... PARKER PALMER Whether we're Democrats or Republicans or independents, we have to learn to hang together or we&... PARKER PALMER We have been deformed by educational and religious institutions that treat us as members of an audie... PARKER PALMER What passes for political realism may make for lively academic debates. But it often functions, iron... PARKER PALMER As a Christian, I'm passionately opposed to American pretensions that we have special standing w... PARKER PALMER Movements begin when oppressed people make - and keep remaking - a deeply inward decision to stop co... PARKER PALMER Inner-life questions are the kind everyone asks, with or without benefit of God-talk: 'Does my l... PARKER PALMER Fascist movements kill off their critics, literally or metaphorically, while democratic movements va... PARKER PALMER We are a profoundly interconnected species, as the global economic and ecological crises reveal in v... PARKER PALMER Even when life challenges us, it's a gift beyond all measure. PARKER PALMER Political civility is not about being polite to each other. It's about reclaiming the power of &... PARKER PALMER I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimate... PARKER PALMER I've always loved performing and, especially, love for the people. That's what keeps me goin... MACEO PARKER People have different takes on clothes and what to wear and colors and all that stuff, so why make a... MACEO PARKER Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really w... MACEO PARKER When I grew up, the thing boys would do during the summer is work tobacco because it was a cheap pro... MACEO PARKER I'm really at ease in being me and going all around the world playing music. But I do get a lift... MACEO PARKER I was a piano player. I love piano playing. I just love all music. MACEO PARKER You have to love what you do. And in order to do that, you have to search your soul to find out what... MACEO PARKER Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie. ALAN PARKER It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur. GILBERT PARKER They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art. CHARLIE PARKER Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't... CHARLIE PARKER That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it... DOROTHY PARKER What we do want to see is reforms that are going to have a permanent effect on the budget deficit. ED PARKER My dad was just a big Joseph Campbell nut. TREY PARKER When I was a kid in the mid-'60s, I was what's known as a moddie boy, a prototype skinhead. ... GRAHAM PARKER When you were a teenager in Colorado, the way to be a punk rocker was to rip on Reagan and Bush and ... TREY PARKER This sale brings the excellent partnership that we have enjoyed with Marriott International to a clo... ALAN PARKER I hope it goes through. ALAN PARKER We're the demonstration project for the state, so everybody's looking at us. ALAN PARKER I tell my son to avoid that area, because it is extremely dangerous. ALAN PARKER People should focus their energy on developing a taste for dark chocolate, because its high cocoa co... ALAN PARKER And this film was not meant to be a political diatribe. Hopefully it's balanced, for people to make ... ALAN PARKER It's probably the hardest thing I've ever had to do, ... just being away from my kids and my family.... ALAN PARKER Thank God that he brings all the troops and my son home safely. Thank God, ALAN PARKER Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route. I've never act... ALAN PARKER Rain is also very difficult to film, particularly in Ireland because it's quite fine, so fine that t... ALAN PARKER You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think. DOROTHY PARKER Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of... CHARLIE PARKER Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring. DOROTHY PARKER Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here. JOHN PARKER I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it. DOROTHY PARKER The friends I made have slipped and strayed. And who's the one that cares A trifling lot and... DOROTHY PARKER Work is the province of cattle. DOROTHY PARKER The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. THEODORE PARKER Once when I was young and true, Someone left me sad- Broke my brittle heart in two; And ... DOROTHY PARKER Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts a... DOROTHY PARKER If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it'... DOROTHY PARKER This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force. DOROTHY PARKER Politics is the science of urgencies. THEODORE PARKER Oh, it is sure as it is sad That any lad is every lad, And what's a girl, to dare implore DOROTHY PARKER I never see the prettiest thing - A cherry bough gone white with Spring - But what I think, Ho... DOROTHY PARKER I know Penny Toler and coach Ross have worked hard to put together a strong team this year, and I am... CANDACE PARKER I'm very stubborn. I feel like I'm going to play this season. CANDACE PARKER On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and ne... CANDACE PARKER Male athletes don't get dropped when they father kids. CANDACE PARKER My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age. CANDACE PARKER You want your coach's blessing. CANDACE PARKER It will be exciting to have my child share my career and to remember what I was like when I was youn... CANDACE PARKER I think it's great that young girls have the WNBA to look up to now. CANDACE PARKER What's so special about this team is that we all have the same mentality, this sort of, 'We&... CANDACE PARKER From my first dunk at 14 years old to my second NCAA Championship at the University of Tennessee, my... CANDACE PARKER I wouldn't mind being the female MJ. I want to have major crossover appeal. CANDACE PARKER My baby is the joy in my life. CANDACE PARKER The Sparks have always been committed to success and making the right moves to build upon their rich... CANDACE PARKER For me, family has always come first. CANDACE PARKER I don't think I would take the game with the same mentality that I do now if I hadn't been i... CANDACE PARKER I look at it this way: the WNBA is 13 years young. I think eventually women will get to that point, ... CANDACE PARKER My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself. CANDACE PARKER You're measured by championships no matter what. CANDACE PARKER So you have to take the good with the bad. CANDACE PARKER Today I know that there is still work to be done, but along the way my I am achieving my dreams. CANDACE PARKER The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out ... DOROTHY PARKER Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come ou... CHARLIE PARKER Kids who commit serious crimes shouldn't go scot-free. But if they are too young to vote or buy ciga... ALISON PARKER Frankly, from a human rights perspective, that raises concerns, ALISON PARKER We're asking for a recognition that these are child offenders and they should have access to parole ... ALISON PARKER For example, Georgia rarely sentences children to life without parole, but it has youth crimes rates... ALISON PARKER This would bring us in line with the rest of the world and make the US act in accordance with human-... ALISON PARKER [Human rights advocates say that the use of juvenile life without parole, or LWOP, is by one measure... ALISON PARKER The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out o... DOROTHY PARKER If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to. DOROTHY PARKER Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone. DOROTHY PARKER By the time you swear you're his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, ... DOROTHY PARKER Oh seek, my love, your newer way; I'll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday DOROTHY PARKER If I didn't care for fun and such, I'd probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I... DOROTHY PARKER She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B. DOROTHY PARKER If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised. DOROTHY PARKER That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them. DOROTHY PARKER Inventory: "Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend... DOROTHY PARKER If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do the... DOROTHY PARKER There's little in taking or giving There's little in water or wine This living, this livin... DOROTHY PARKER Where's the man that could ease a heart like a satin gown? DOROTHY PARKER In youth, it was a way I had, To do my best to please. And change, with every passing lad<... DOROTHY PARKER I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid. DOROTHY PARKER Some men break your heart in two, Some men fawn and flatter, Some men never look at you; DOROTHY PARKER As society advances the standard of poverty rises. THEODORE PARKER All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were a... DOROTHY PARKER Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words. DOROTHY PARKER There's a helluva distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply... DOROTHY PARKER Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a poi... DOROTHY PARKER I never thought that heav'n would lose its blue And sullen storm-clouds mask the gentle sky; DOROTHY PARKER All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't si... DOROTHY PARKER I shall stay the way I am because I do not give a damn. DOROTHY PARKER They sicken at the calm that know the storm. DOROTHY PARKER They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm. DOROTHY PARKER Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you. DOROTHY PARKER Only Christ could have conceived Christ. JOSEPH PARKER He'd have given me rolling lands, Houses of marble, and billowing farms, Pearls, to trickle ... DOROTHY PARKER Why is it no one ever sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my ... DOROTHY PARKER Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejo... THEODORE PARKER Let us do our duty, in our shop in our kitchen, in the market, the street, the office, the school, t... THEODORE PARKER By the time you swear you're his, Shivering and sighing, And he vows his passion is Infi... DOROTHY PARKER Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn, the word DOROTHY PARKER They laid their hands upon my head, They stroked my cheek and brow; And time could heal a hu... DOROTHY PARKER Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh. THEODORE PARKER Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair. DOROTHY PARKER Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are. DOROTHY PARKER I can't talk about Hollywood. It was a horror to me when I was there and it's a horror to look back ... DOROTHY PARKER Gratitude -- the meanest and most sniveling attribute in the world. DOROTHY PARKER I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true. DOROTHY PARKER Where's the man could ease a heart, like a satin gown? DOROTHY PARKER Brevity is the soul of lingerie. DOROTHY PARKER Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Four be the th... DOROTHY PARKER It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him... THEODORE PARKER I like to have a martini, Two at the very most. After three I'm under the table, After four... DOROTHY PARKER Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host. DOROTHY PARKER Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (B... DOROTHY PARKER It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard. DOROTHY PARKER He Robert Benchley and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery. DOROTHY PARKER And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned; The calmer, I, to see it tru... DOROTHY PARKER Every year, back come Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground al... DOROTHY PARKER