Top 299 Parker Quotes & Sayings

When the phone rang, Parker was in the garage, killing a man.

You is getting nosier than a parker.

I'd love to see Peter Parker and Daredevil hang out. There's a wonderful issue of the comics where Matt Murdock has to defend Daredevil, because the public don't know, and so he has Peter Parker put on his Daredevil outfit so that he can sit in the docks. You know, great storyline.

I started it all, I created the role of Peter Parker.

I'm a terrible parallel parker.

For a long while, I found Parker impossible. He went away for 23 years. I tried to bring him back a few times, and I sort of figured out where he came from, why he went away, and why he came back. The thing that I have to tap into for Parker is in some way the outsider. If I can tap into the outsider, I can write about Parker, and if I can't, I can't.

I never really sympathised with Peter Parker.

Anything to declare? the customs inspector said."Two pound of uncut heroin and a manual of pornographic art," Mark answered, looking about for Kity. All Americans are comedians, the inspector thought, as he passed Parker through. A government tourist hostess approached him."Are you Mr. Mark Parker?""Guilty.

Whether early or late, the Parker novels are all superlative literary entertainments.

If Charlie Parker were a Gunslinger, There'd be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats

I've always wanted to play Peter Parker, obviously.

Parker: When can you start? Rainie: I can start tomorrow if you'd like. My schedule is pretty much open. All I have to keep me at home is Thomas. Parker: Ah. It figures that there'd be a man in the picture. You're too lovely to be unattached. Rainie: Thomas is a cat.

I think Sean Parker damaged the music business with Napster.

I think I'll give it up, the fantasy is over, I wanted to play Spiderman, Peter Parker.

I am the most skilled parallel parker the world has ever known.

I wouldn't care to speculate about what it is in Westlake's psyche that makes him so good at writing about Parker, much less what it is that makes me like the Parker novels so much. Suffice it to say that Stark/Westlake is the cleanest of all noir novelists, a styleless stylist who gets to the point with stupendous economy, hustling you down the path of plot so briskly that you have to read his books a second time to appreciate the elegance and sober wit with which they are written.

At Warby Parker, we say that we're customer focused but medium agnostic.

When I fought Joseph Parker it was for the WBO world title and they robbed my fight.

I sold my memoirs of my love life to Parker Brothers and they are going to make a game out of it.

When I was probably in middle school I saw the mini series Angels in America for the first time and I think Mary Louise Parker's performance in that first of all sparked a deep obsession with Mary Louise Parker, but I also really love Amy Adams because she gets to do comedy and drama so consistently.

It would be Spiderman. I'd love to be Peter Parker.

To make money I picked up work as a busboy, valet parker, skateboard shop employee.

The best of Donald Westlake's pseudonymous thrillers about Parker, the toughest burglar who ever lived. . . .Out of print for years and years, Butcher's Moon is the ultimate Parker novel, best read as an installment in the series as a whole but comprehensible and wholly satisfying on its own.

I think every writer of detective fiction writing today has been influenced by Mr. Parker. I'm of a generation that followed Robert Parker, and it was impossible to read the genre and not be influenced by him.

Planned Parenthood gave me an award for the Willie Parker story that I was deeply honored by. I didn't get any negative comments. I think the Willie Parker piece had more of an impact on people in that sense because it went deeper into the clinic itself.

For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them.

Charlie Parker stuck out in my mind.

Nerds are running the world. Andrew Garfield made a movie [called “The Social Network”] about it. Nerds are no longer pariahs and knowing how to write computer code is longer a [mocked] quality. What was important in those early comics was this notion that Peter Parker is an outsider and how we define that in a contemporary context. That, I think, was one of the challenges for us — getting Peter Parker’s outsider status to be current.

When I was twenty-five, I went on exactly four dates with a much older guy whom I'll call Peter Parker. I'm calling him Peter Parker because the actual guy's name was also alliterative, and because, well, it's my book and I'll name a guy I dated after Spider-Man's alter ego if I want to.

Currently I'm working with Parker Fly on a new Midi guitar to arrive next year.

This is a God-given right of any man.Anytime you have a man who is getting lynched, and what are his people supposed to do? Sit around and forgive the lyncher or wait on the United States government to go in and get the lyncher, like the United States government did in the case of, of Charles Mack Parker, and the FBI found who were the guilty lynchers, and right to this day, the FBI, the highest law enforcement body in the land, has yet to bring the lynchers of Mack Parker to justice?

Parker wasn't supposed to be a series. He was supposed to be one book, and if he was only going to be in one book, I didn't worry about it. And then an editor at Pocket Books said "Write more books about him." So I didn't go back at that point and give him a first name. If I'd known he would've been a series, I would've done two things differently. First, I would've given him a first name because that means for 27 books, I've had to find some other way to say, "Parker parked the car."

I'm better than P. T. Barnum and Colonel Parker put together.

Charlie Parker was a genius, as was Lester Young.

I love guys like Charlie Parker.

You can't simplify my taste and say, 'Parker likes big wines,' because it's just not true.

If you're French, you definitely have to respect Tony Parker for what he did.

Would you care to publish this? Sincerely, Robert B. Parker.

Peter Parker's storyline hits every key point of growing up.

Sarah Vaughan was the Charlie Parker of the vocalists during the 1950s.

You can't steal a gift. Bird [Charlie Parker] gave the world his music, and if you can hear it you can have it.

One of my favorite products at Warby Parker also happens to be our worst-selling item: the monocle.

We want to try and get Joseph Parker, as long as he doesn't run like an Australian chicken.

How does Parker’s body compare with yours ” Great. A pop quiz I thought recognizing his transition into lecture mode. “How does Parker’s body compare with mine Hmm.” I gave Parker a quick theatrical once-over and he smiled clearly catching on to my line of thought. “Nice legs and killer biceps. But I have better boobs. No question.

[Charlie "Bird" Parker] would sit down and ask [Phil Wood], "What do you think about this whole secondary Viennese school with Schoenberg, Berg and Webern? Are you listening to that music and what do you feel about it?" These were the conversations that he was having. And he also said, what he learned from Charlie Parker was, not that he studied with him in the formal sense, is that the first thing that Charlie Parker would always ask was, "Did you eat today?".

Charlie Parker was the greatest individual musician that ever lived. Every instrument in the band tried to copy Charlie Parker, and in the history of jazz there had never been one man who influenced all the instruments.

Warby Parker designs experiences, not products.

Parker's grand slam is the same as going 4 for 4, even though he went 1 for 4.

Charlie Parker lifted jazz music off the dance floor and into the stratosphere!

Obviously making Peter Parker suddenly bisexual or gay wouldn't really make logical or dramatic sense. It was a hypothetical kind of question about the nature of these comic book characters and the nature of this particular character, and whether sexuality, race, any of those things makes any difference to the character of Peter Parker.

Sidwell, Parker and Duff are all coming back to pastures old, as the saying goes

I'm not scared of Joseph Parker or any other fighter.

Warby Parker is a data-driven company.

I love Sarah Jessica Parker. What's not to like?

Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good to see you Richard Parker!

I didn't see a difference between Spider-Man and Peter Parker, to be honest with you. Peter Parker is always Peter Parker. When he's Spider-Man, he's still Peter Parker, no matter how he's dressed.

I also wanted Parker to operate in the Internet age without losing being Parker. He's always operated in the world without really being with the world, and cyberspace means that the rest of us are more and more living the same way.

I didn't know what the hell Charlie Parker was playing... I just liked the way he played.

Mozart was born Mozart. Charlie Parker was born Charlie Parker.

Dizzy, Duke and Charlie Parker were the greatest jazz legends of all time.