Leslie Parrish quotes

“Sometimes disaster is our teacher. I don't welcome it, but if it comes, there is something to be learned from it.”
-- Leslie Parrish

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“Suppose they gave a war, and no one came?”
-- Leslie Parrish

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“With money come the tests. My bankruptcy, which at the time I thought was a disaster, turned out to be a major blessing. It taught me so much! Money is not only an isolator, but it's a magnet, too. It draws all kinds of people to you - you may not want them but it draws them to you anyway. The reverse of that, a bankruptcy, sends everybody away.”
-- Leslie Parrish

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“I lived in great poverty as a child and young woman, and I used to think of money and how to make money as a means to get away from the constant struggle to survive - as freedom. Now I know it isn't freedom. It's not a solution, but a new problem. It comes with its own challenges and tremendous obligations.”
-- Leslie Parrish

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“As sculptors chip away the stone in order to find the statue, writers chip away extraneous verbiage so readers can see the shape of an idea clearly. My gift is to see through the confusion, to bring order and simplicity to a story.”
-- Leslie Parrish

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“It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.”

Source : Tinker v. Des Moines Indep. Community School Dist. (1969)

“We welcome, we welcome this good cooperation between Russia and NATO.”

“Welcome to Miz-fest 2010! It's all going A-Ry.”

“I have never had much trouble simultaneously entertaining diametrically opposed propositions, and welcome the possibility that this is not because I have one mind and am out of it, but because I have lots of them, all beavering away on their own.”

“The biggest challenge is the chaos of parenthood, which has honestly been such a welcome challenge - bring it on, I say!”

“There's a small still center into which conception can arrive. And when it arrives, you make it welcome with your experience.”

Source : Anne Truitt, Audrey Niffenegger (2013). “Daybook: The Journal of an Artist”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

“Religion without philosophy is sentiment, or sometimes fanaticism, while philosophy without religion is mental speculation.”

Source : A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1976). “Bhagavad-Gita as it is: Abridged edition with translations and elaborate purports”

“Sometimes you can do things for others that you can't do for yourself.”

“Sometimes to heal, you must first get hurt.”

“People who get Nobel prizes aren't necessarily the most imaginative of people. People who sometimes find a system, develop a system, do very useful work.”

Source : Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Interview, library.cshl.edu. June 17, 2005.