T. Jefferson Parker quotes

T. Jefferson Parker quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Blood Riders is a novel like you've never read before - part Western and part horror and one-hundred percent sweet excitement. It's vivid and high-velocity, too. I couldn't put it down.”
-- T. Jefferson Parker

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“When my story stalls on me, I've played my hand too soon.”
-- T. Jefferson Parker

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“If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.”
“I have liked many but loved very few. Yet no-one has been as sweet as you. I'd stand and wait in the world's longest queue. Just for the pleasure of a moment with you.”
“If you close your eyes you can imagine the hackers sitting in a room, combing through the documents to find the ones that will draw the most blood. And in a room next door are American journalists doing the same thing. As demented and criminal as it is, at least the hackers are doing it for a cause. The press is doing it for a nickel.”
“Now it is the blood of Jesus which saves, and it is the same blood which cleanses and sanctifies; and as we had to come lo Jesus to be plunged into the fountain, so we have to abide in Jesus by fellowship, to grow up into Christlikeness.”
“Dear friends, have you begun to sing the "new song? " Loved ones are singing it in the heavenly home, and we may sing it here; and by and by we shall join them, gaze with them on the risen, glorified Lord, and our voices will mingle in the "new song" "unto Him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in His own blood, to Him be glory and dominion for ever and ever.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 555, 1895.
“Donâ€™t use the language of â€˜goodâ€™ or â€˜badâ€™ when talking about blood sugar numbers â€“ these are data points, not judgments of your ability to manage your diabetes.”
“As the years go by and I make more films, I am increasingly interested in capturing place as a vivid backdrop for my films.”
“I sometimes go for the strongest, most vivid colour on the palette, which in the case of movies is violence.”
“Vowing, even intense vowing, is often useless. The next day comes and the next day goes. What works is making a vivid, concrete plan.”

Source : Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.228, Random House
“It's incongruous that the older we get, the more likely we are to turn in the direction of religion. Less vivid and intense ourselves, closer to the grave, we begin to conceive of ourselves as immortal.”

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