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  • Charlie Parker stuck out in my mind. -- Sonny Rollins
  • I never really sympathised with Peter Parker. -- Jamie Bell
  • Charlie Parker was a genius, as was Lester Young. -- Sebastian Coe
  • It would be Spiderman. I'd love to be Peter Parker. -- Casper Van Dien
  • I think Sean Parker damaged the music business with Napster. -- Curtis Jackson
  • I'm better than P. T. Barnum and Colonel Parker put together. -- Evel Knievel
  • When the phone rang, Parker was in the garage, killing a man. -- Donald E. Westlake
  • Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good to see you Richard Parker! -- Yann Martel
  • Sarah Vaughan was the Charlie Parker of the vocalists during the 1950s. -- Roy Haynes
  • Whether early or late, the Parker novels are all superlative literary entertainments. -- Terry Teachout
  • Charlie Parker lifted jazz music off the dance floor and into the stratosphere! -- Joe Lovano
  • Dizzy, Duke and Charlie Parker were the greatest jazz legends of all time. -- Milt Jackson
  • Phoebe Wolkind Ephron cracked wise like Dorothy Parker and looked like Katharine Hepburn. -- Hallie Ephron
  • Parker's grand slam is the same as going 4 for 4, even though he went 1 for 4. -- Jerry Coleman
  • If Charlie Parker were a Gunslinger, There'd be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats -- Charles Mingus
  • Sidwell, Parker and Duff are all coming back to pastures old, as the saying goes -- Stan Collymore
  • You are not just a big-picture girl for me, Brooke Parker. You're the only picture. -- Julie James
  • Currently I'm working with Parker Fly on a new Midi guitar to arrive next year. -- Adrian Belew
  • I think I'll give it up, the fantasy is over, I wanted to play Spiderman, Peter Parker. -- George Eads
  • I didn't know what the hell Charlie Parker was playing... I just liked the way he played. -- Charlie Watts
  • People out there maybe know who Junior Parker is and some of those Sun Records blues guys. -- Brian Setzer
  • My favorite episode of Stargate? All of them! My favorite episode of Parker Lewis? All of them! -- Corin Nemec
  • Nothing surpasses my performances with small bands, especially with Charlie Parker. A small band doesn't forestall creativity. -- Dizzy Gillespie
  • I am pleased that Prince Charles and Mrs Camilla Parker Bowles have decided to take this important step. -- Rowan Williams
  • I don't remember that I copied any guitar player note-for-note. But I remember copying Charlie Parker note for note. -- Joe Pass
  • I always have two pairs of glasses: geeky black Warby Parker frames and Wayfarer Ray Bans. Those are key! -- Christa Miller
  • Whether it's Dorothy Parker or Oscar Wilde, they're brilliant with genius bon mots. Of course, I find them extraordinary. -- Duncan Roy
  • ...some musicians, man, you hear the note almost before they hit it. Jimi, Coltrane and Charlie Parker were like that... -- Carlos Santana
  • When the guy with asthma finally came in from the fire escape, Parker rabbit-punched him and took his gun away. -- Donald E. Westlake
  • When the guy with asthma finally came in from the fire escape, Parker rabbit-punched him and took his gun away. -- Donald E. Westlake
  • If Robert Benchley and Dorothy Parker had teamed up to write epic fantasy, something like Split Heirs might have resulted. -- John DeChancie
  • My brother sings. My brother is a singer-songwriter. His name is Parker Ainsworth. He changed his last name to his middle name. -- Lauren Worsham
  • I sold my memoirs of my love life to Parker Brothers and they are going to make a game out of it. -- Woody Allen
  • Trey Parker did 'Book of Mormon.' It's the best Broadway show I've ever seen. He does 'South Park.' It's wonderful. -- Penn Jillette
  • I must point out - Sarah Jessica Parker is not a diva - she's one of these pop culture characters that everybody likes. -- Philip Treacy
  • You can't steal a gift. Bird [Charlie Parker] gave the world his music, and if you can hear it you can have it. -- Dizzy Gillespie
  • We loved one another, man. I mean all those stories about the rift ... there was no question of a rift between Charlie Parker and me. -- Dizzy Gillespie
  • I love the South Park guys, Trey Parker and Matt Stone. They're geniuses. I throw that word around a lot, but I really do mean it. -- Brent Spiner
  • 'The Simpsons' is like Charlie Parker or Marlon Brando or Richard Pryor: Comedy couldn't go back to the way it was after 'The Simpsons' came out. -- Eric Andre
  • Most of the soloists at Birdland had to wait for Parker's next record in order to find out what to play next. What will they do now? -- Charles Mingus
  • If you leave me here," the guy on the floor said, "he'll kill me tomorrow morning." Parker looked at him. "So you've still got tonight," he said. -- Donald E. Westlake
  • If you leave me here," the guy on the floor said, "he'll kill me tomorrow morning." Parker looked at him. "So you've still got tonight," he said. -- Donald E. Westlake
  • It's in my stars to invent; I was born on Madame Curie's birthday. I have this need for originals, for innovation. That's why I like Charlie Parker. -- Joni Mitchell
  • Ornette Coleman is doing the only really new thing in jazz since the innovations in the mid-forties of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and those of Thelonious Monk -- John Lewis
  • Life has many changes. Tomorrow it may rain, and it's supposed to be sunshine, 'cause it's summertime. But God's got a funny soul, he plays like Charlie Parker. -- Charles Mingus
  • Bruce Parker's The Power of the Sea is an engaging and essential history of science. Itâ??s also a terrific account of survival on our wild blue planet. -- David Helvarg
  • Colonel Parker asked Henry and me to come to Elvis' suite and have breakfast. There were at least five policemen stationed up there. He was talking on the telephone. -- Minnie Pearl
  • Bordeaux would be naive not to recognize that Robert Parker was driving the brand equity. If the next generation doesn't care about Chateau Pichon-Lalande, then you have a problem. -- Gary Vaynerchuk
  • There's a punk rock quality to Peter Parker, that I identified with when I read the comics [Spider-Man], and that I really liked. He has this chip on his shoulder. -- Marc Webb
  • What does New York sound like? For me, the Charlie Parker at the Royal Roost recordings on the Savoy label are the total embodiment of the New York music experience. -- Henry Rollins
  • Could be I've finally gone crazy, but men crazier than me have done greater things than I've ever dreamed, so we'll see where it takes me." ~ Tom Parker, Imagination Stone -- Drew Bankston
  • There is not that many players that really can take over games, signed Candace Parker, I really felt like at that time that a National Championship was certainly in reach. -- Pat Summitt
  • I decided I'd never do a series again, but I was offered a pilot for a series through Eddy Murphy Productions, and that was the gig that got me Parker Lewis. -- Corin Nemec
  • Until I separated from Parker, I had never been without them-and it's the hardest thing to share them. But we're trying to give the children the semblance of having whole lives. -- Kirstie Alley
  • Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous. -- Jean-Michel Basquiat
  • I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats. -- J. Courtney Sullivan
  • I grew up with all these old jazz guys in the '70s in L.A., and they grew up idolizing Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Lester Young - all of these incredible musicians. -- Flea
  • Holy silicone suppository, Batman!" Ethan said, grinning. Dan snorted, Parker coughed to disguise a laugh, and I glared at them all. "What?" My brother shrugged defensively. "That's what it looks like. -- Rachel Vincent
  • I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats." -- J. Courtney Sullivan
  • When I heard Charlie Parker, I knew that that was going to be the new wave, the new way to play jazz. From that point on, I was sold with... the idea of bebop. -- Buddy DeFranco
  • A portrait of the young Charlie Parker with a degree of vivid detail never before approached. . . [Kansas City Lightning is] a deft, virtuosic panorama of early jazz. . . This is a mind-opening, and mind-filling, book. -- Tom Piazza
  • Bonnie and Clyde, while one of the best movies ever made, was far more interested in portraying Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker as romantic anti-establishment Robin Hoods than what they really were: white-trash spree killers. -- Bryan Burrough
  • I don't want to dis anybody, but someone like Robert Parker. I first read a Spenser book maybe 20 years ago and then read every one that came out. I did that with Tony Hillerman too. -- Dave Barry
  • Like Elmore Leonard and Donald Westlake and Robert B. Parker and oh so many others, I want to die with my boots on, facedown on my keyboard if possible, in the middle of a sentence. -- Kristine Kathryn Rusch
  • It was heartbreaking . . . I think it was disappointing because I had such an identity in being 'Mrs. Parker', and being a wife, and so when that's taken away from you, you [think], 'Who am I? -- Eva Longoria
  • If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You're dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle. -- Quincy Jones
  • I didn't want to be the typical teen idol. I didn't want to be Leif Garrett. I didn't want to be Shaun Cassidy, David Cassidy or Parker Stevenson. I wanted to do my own thing. -- Willie Aames
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  • Bonnie and Clyde,' while one of the best movies ever made, was far more interested in portraying Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker as romantic anti-establishment Robin Hoods than what they really were: white-trash spree killers. -- Bryan Burrough
  • Peter Parker has superpowers, but he still has trouble making rent every month. I identify with that in a way that I don't with, like, Superman, for instance. He's just less interesting because he's too perfect. -- Timothy Miller
  • I started with commercials - for shampoo, pancakes, insurance, Volvo. I did a Lux soap commercial with Sarah Jessica Parker. And I got a role in an indie film called 'Satellite' that did well in festivals. -- Stephanie Szostak
  • I started with commercials - for shampoo, pancakes, insurance, Volvo. I did a Lux soap commercial with Sarah Jessica Parker. And I got a role in an indie film called Satellite that did well in festivals. -- Stephanie Szostak
  • It was my band. I organized the band and Dizzy was in the band. Dizzy was the first musical director with the band. Charlie Parker was in the band. But, no, no, that was my band. -- Billy Eckstine
  • 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. -- Robert Crais
  • I was a Spidey fan as a kid. I always liked the complexity and the teenaged angst that Spider-Man, Peter Parker, always had to deal with. It was kind of a deeper, darker storytelling that just good-guy-beats-bad-guy. -- Jack Coleman
  • On 'The Guiding Light' I enjoyed working with Jamie Goodwin and Ellen Parker, who played my sister. I loved working with Jerry Ver Dorn and Jay Hammer. I mean, there's some great fun people that I've really enjoyed. -- Kassie DePaiva
  • In the first Spider-Man, at the end of the movie, Peter Parker had to deny himself a relationship with a girl that he's in love with. The very next thing that happens is that he's swinging through the city. -- John Dykstra
  • I never ask Candace Parker if she was thinking about leaving because I never had any reason to believe she would. I just kept the focus on the team and on Candace and the role she played for us. -- Pat Summitt
  • Donald Westlake's Parker novels are among the small number of books I read over and over. Forget all that crap you've been telling yourself about War and Peace and Proust-these are the books you'll want on that desert island. -- Lawrence Block
  • I've just made a cancer drama, called 'Now Is Good,' directed by Ol Parker and starring Dakota Fanning. We filmed in Brighton and it's about a girl dying of leukemia, although it's not as depressing as it sounds. -- Kaya Scodelario
  • There was not a lot of rock n' roll in the house. Our parents didn't think it was very groovy, and I tend to agree with them. If you grew up with Charlie Parker, Bill Haley wasn't very hip. -- Elvis Costello
  • There was not a lot of rock n roll in the house. Our parents didnt think it was very groovy, and I tend to agree with them. If you grew up with Charlie Parker, Bill Haley wasnt very hip. -- Elvis Costello
  • Spider-Man's probably my favorite. You see, Batman is a billionaire and there's nothing really cool about a billionaire saving the world. But Spider-Man is Peter Parker, a conflicted character who puts on a suit and saves the world. I love that. -- Zac Efron
  • I write everything with fountain pens. I don't know why. I've done it since I was bar mitzvahed. I was given a fountain pen, a Parker fountain pen, and I loved it, and I've never liked writing anything with pencils or ball-points. -- Tony Kushner
  • I met the Colonel when Elvis was recording some song I'd written for one of his movies. Elvis was just having fun with the gang and all the Memphis boys and Colonel Parker was sitting over here in like a theater seat. -- Mac Davis
  • 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. -- Donald E. Westlake
  • Man, you're a regular Bonnie Parker." "A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up." Jesse found that hysterical. "Did Willie say that?" "Nope, Mae West. Now, how do I get on this thing in a skirt? -- Ruta Sepetys
  • Spiderman was my favorite comic book character growing up. I'm a geek, so I love the fact Peter Parker is into science. And I gravitate towards short guys. I'm 5' 9" now, but in junior high, I got picked on because I was 4' 8". -- Josh Keaton
  • I went up to his [Hank Jones'] house and there were four guys there: Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, and Max Roach. Not a bad place to be. Scared shitless, but a nice place to be on my second day in New York. -- Ray Brown
  • My very first acting job was with Alan Parker on Angela's Ashes but as a child I had written to so many other productions just applying for any role. I always wanted to be an actress and I did loads of acting summer schools, -- Kerry Condon
  • I was blessed that I got married early and had a good wife. That sort of kept me straight. Probably I would have been like Charlie Parker, you know, involved in drugs or alcohol or something like that if I hadn't had this stability. -- Dizzy Gillespie
  • When I first came into the league, I was with Tim Dwight in San Diego, and a guy named Eric Parker, who really showed me the work ethic it takes to be an NFL receiver, and I've really tried to keep that with me. -- Wes Welker
  • Allison Janney's character in 'The West Wing' was so rocking! I am a huge fan of Mary Louis Parker and her character in 'Weeds.' My manager says, 'you have to grow into yourself, Allison' because all the characters I want to play are, like, 39. -- Allison Mack
  • If Lady Gaga and Dorothy Parker had a secret love child, it would've been Gypsy Rose Lee. Gypsy arrived for opening nights at the Met wearing a full-length cape made entirely of orchids, while Lady Gaga shows up wearing a full-length cloak made of meat. -- Karen Abbott
  • I'm a huge South Park fan, loved Avenue Q and can not wait to work with Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Bobby Lopez and Casey Nicholaw. Elder Price is an amazing role and I am so excited to take The Book of Mormon across the country. -- Gavin Creel
  • My very first acting job was with Alan Parker on' Angela's Ashes,' but as a child, I had written to so many other productions just applying for any role. I always wanted to be an actress, and I did loads of acting summer schools. -- Kerry Condon
  • I earned my share same as everybody. Well, I coulda got killed same as everybody. And I'm wanted by the law same as everybody. I'm a nervous wreck, and that's the truth. I have to take sass from Miss Bonnie Parker all the time. I deserve mine. -- Estelle Parsons
  • I interviewed Matt [Stone] and Trey [Parker], actually, and I got to ask them questions. I love them deeply because they appeared dressed as J-Lo and someone else [who had worn the same scandalous dresses the year before at the Oscars]. They confessed they were on acid. -- Eric Idle
  • 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. -- John H Richardson
  • Any young man coming of age has a lot to go through. Peter Parker certainly has a lot of responsibility, and without doubt, so does Pippin - his role, his life, and how he is going to perform it. It's all about choices and how we make them. -- Matthew James Thomas
  • People tell me not to do a soap, but it was a great learning experience because I became familiar with the technical aspects of the business. Besides, look who came out of soaps - Julianne Moore, Demi Moore, Tommy Lee Jones, Parker Posey, Kathleen Turner. All amazing people. -- Sarah Michelle Gellar
  • Geeks are running the world, anyone who's seen The Social Network knows the dynamic has shifted, but what I think is iconic and timeless about Peter Parker is that he's an outsider, on the outside looking in, and that was something I thought was very important to protect. -- Marc Webb
  • I have picked the very, very best deputy that I could. David Parker is a fantastic guy. He's a person who I trust absolutely. He's got a wonderful sense for policy. He will be great on organisation, and I know that I could not have a better deputy. -- David Cunliffe
  • I have picked the very, very best deputy that I could. David Parker is a fantastic guy. Hes a person who I trust absolutely. Hes got a wonderful sense for policy. He will be great on organisation, and I know that I could not have a better deputy. -- David Cunliffe
  • I didn't know Charlie Parker well, but I spent some time with him, and he was articulate and well-spoken with a lot of curiosity about music and the world. But the only way he seems to be depicted is as a junkie. And that's not the full picture. -- Benny Carter
  • 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. -- Leon Uris
  • 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. -- Terry Teachout
  • The religious imagery and fairytales that formed our shared cultural references have been replaced by the cult of celebrity. Marilyn is the sex goddess, Camilla Parker Bowles is cast as the wicked witch, Che Guevara is the revolutionary. Celebrities have become visual shorthand for narratives that shape our lives. -- Alison Jackson
  • I don't play the traditional Charlie Parker songs. But I do improvise and I do create with my instrument, and that to me is jazz. But there are people who use the word 'jazz' only in a traditional sense, and they would be offended by that, and that's fine. -- Kenny G
  • When I first met Alan Parker, who directed 'Angel Heart,' he'd heard so many horror stories about me that he was literally scared to death of me. Right away, he sat me down and said, 'I'm very scared of you. I've heard you're a very bad boy.' -- Mickey Rourke
  • And what could be a hotter ticket than the improbable triumph of 'The Book of Mormon,' the musical-comedy moon shot of the season? Its creators, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, of Comedy Central's 'South Park,' are the most unlikely Rodgers and Hammerstein team ever to bowl a thundering strike. -- James Wolcott
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  • For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them. -- Robert B. Parker
  • When I am spotted somewhere, it means that my characterizations haven't covered up Eleanor Parker the person. I prefer it the other way around. -- Eleanor Parker
  • I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would never have written Don Giovanni, Charlie Parker would have never played anything but swing music. -- Charlie Parker
  • To some extent, the idea that rock 'n roll used to have this sort of free antediluvian identity, frolicking in the 1950s with Elvis or something, is totally wrong. It's insane. Elvis' relationship with Colonel Parker, his manager, was one of the most possibly corrupt, certainly lucrative, and intense business partnerships ever in rock n' roll. -- Ann Powers
  • For some reason, Superman seems to be held to higher standards on the subject of secret/super identities than other superheroes. No one ever says, 'Peter Parker was a nerdy kid. He can't possibly be Spider-Man, attract a good-looking gal, work in a newspaper, etc.' And no one gets hung up on whether his nerdiness is a disguise. -- Gary Frank
  • As far as superhero stories, what's appealing is of course that aspect of wish fulfillment. I mean, you start out reading them as a kid, and a couple things jump out at you - there are heroes out there, and you wish you could run into a phone booth and change your life, or be like Peter Parker and put on a mask and become a hero. -- John Ridley
  • You is getting nosier than a parker. -- Roald Dahl
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