Best 167 quotes in «parks quotes» category

As I lounged in the Park, or strolled down Piccadilly, I used to look at everyone who passed me, and wonder, with mad curiosity, what sort of lives they led. some of them fascinated me. Others filled me with terror.

A vibrant, rich, growing corpus of public-domain books is a vital public good - similar to parks, the infrastructure of basic services, and other hallmarks of any advanced society.

Big cities are chaotic. And chaos for humans - who have experience from their ancestors - is the last step before conflict. So, in the park, every kind of visual contradiction has been eliminated.

Behind every great amusement park is a great fan site.

Being out of work for 13 to 15 years is no walk in the park.

Best atmosphere I ever played in was at Celtic Park in the UEFA Cup for Liverpool.

Cause I want to be on 106 and Park pushing a benz

Do I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I'm riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown traffic. But when I'm riding on secure protected lanes or on the paths that run along the Hudson or through Central Park - no, I don't wear the dreaded helmet then.

Child welfare ought really to cover all sorts of topics, such as better water and sanitation and good roads, and clean streets and public parks and playgrounds.

Director Park asking that if there was a pocket on one side of the piece of clothing then there should be a pocket on the other side. They were a little uncomfortable to wear, yes, because there were a lot of tight, high-waisted things so it was great at the end of the day to slip into some pajamas!

Don't park... Arrival is the death of inspiration.

Don't bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals.

Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosa Parks, Gandhi — all these peopled described themselves as quiet and soft-spoken and even shy. And they all took the spotlight, even though every bone in their bodies was telling them not to.

Every film is a remake of a previous film, or a remake of a television series that everyone loved in the 1960s, or a remake of a television series that everyone hated in the 1960s. Or it's a theme park ride; it will soon come to breakfast cereal mascots.

Every time my brain parks the car neatly in the driveway, my mouth drives through the back of the garage.

Everything is calm, happier, and less stressed. As soon as you drive into the park, it’s like you’ve entered an oasis.

Give the park police more ammo.

First bubble baths. Now Disney parks. You're shattering every creep vampire myth I've ever heard.

Glaciers are almost gone from Glacier National Park

[ Hosting Saturday Night Live ] paved the way for Parks And Rec and The Grinder, the Comedy Central Roast, and that whole side of my career.

He asked <...> Rosemary, why do you love books so much? And I said, Well, I don't know <...> I suppose I love them because they're quiet, and I can take them to the park.

Horsemanship through the history of all nations has been considered one of the highest accomplishments. You can't pass a park without seeing a statue of some old codger on a horse. It must be to his bravery, you can tell it's not to his horsemanship.

I also love the makers of South Park, because they're political, strong, and they're making all of these comments that would get you shot for if you did it in a drama.

I call myself the Amusement Park. That's because I'm funny and scary at the same time.

I don’t like you, Park. Sometimes I think I live for you

I can't go anywhere without being bugged by somebody. I'd love to just hike out down the street, or drop in a restaurant, or wander in the park, or take my kids somewhere without collecting a trail of people. But I can't.

I'd like to see the first act of Sunday in the Park with George, and the second act of Hamilton. Every day.

I don't really drink, and I've never been to a rave. I used to cut school to read Shakespeare, not to make out in the park.

I do feel more myself in America. I can regress there, and they have roller-coaster parks.

If people knew where the sounds in Jurassic Park came from, it'd be rated R!

If I couldn't be a fiction writer, I would be a roller coaster designer for theme parks

If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing.

I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining.

If an ordinary person parks outside another ordinary person's house for a week, it's considered stalking. If, however, that person is considered newsworthy, it's perfectly legal for paparazzi to do the same thing.

I jammed my hand in my jacket pocket, bracing myself fo the next hit, and fel something. Something grainy and samll, sticking to the tips of my fingers: the sand from Commons Park. Oh Cass, I thought. I miss you so, so much.

If the parks be "the lungs of London" we wonder what Greenwich Fair is--a periodical breaking out, we suppose--a sort of spring rash.

I had to take the driver's test twice. And they don't make you parallel park anymore, but you can't hit the curb when you're backing up. And I hit the curb.

I got a job at an amusement park. I like to make the rides more terrifying by throwing a couple of screws onto the seats.

I just love Bayonne. I love the parks. I love the pizzerias. I love the simple things in life, and its all here.

I like to be scared. I don't like feeling like "Oh, this is going to be a walk in the park". If I ever get to that place, I'll just stop acting.

I like theme parks. The fastest roller coaster I've ever been on is at a casino in Nevada.

I lived at home for 2 1/2 months each time. I waited tables at Govnr's Park Tavern in Denver and then I moved on.

I'm kinda disapointed that Canada isn't like the South Park movie said it was.

I love England, the people, the parks, the theatre.

I'm just a girl from a trailer park who had a dream. I never thought this would ever happen.

I'll sit in the park and feed the pigeons for a while.' We don't have pigeons.' Then I'll feed the pterodactyls.

I recently went for a walk in a state park and found that some of my favorite trees had collapsed. It makes me feel vulnerable, personally and for my children.

I'm not method or anything like that, but sometimes you get the scenes and you're like 'Really, Damon [Lindelof]? More of this? Can I have one scene where it's a walk in the park?' But he doesn't do that. He puts every character through their paces.

In 1924 Mao took a Chinese friend, newly arrived from Europe, to see the notorious sign in the Shanghai park, 'Chinese and Dogs Not Allowed'.

In India, the poverty is so vast that the state cannot control it. It can beat people, but it can't prevent the poor from flooding the roads, the cities, the parks and railway station platforms.