John Thompson Parker

Famous quotes containing the words john, thompson and/or parker:

    “Well, I know you haven’t had much experience writing and none at all in pictures. But I’ve heard about you. It all sounded like you’re just the man I wanted for a story about the Navy. I don’t want a story just about ships and planes. I want a story about the officers.... I want this story from a pen dipped in salt water not dry martinis. Do you know what I mean?”
    —Frank Fenton, William Wister Haines, co-scenarist, and John Ford. John Dodge (Ward Bond)

    “Cry,—clinging Heaven by the hems;
    And lo, Christ walking on the water
    Not of Gennesareth, but Thames!”
    —Francis Thompson (1859–1907)

    “People Who Do things exceed my endurance;
    God, for a man that solicits insurance!”
    —Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)