A. O. Scott Quotes

We...sin not because we want what is evil, but because we want what isn't good enough.

I believe in stopping work and eating lunch.

If you complain to someone, you assume that it's someone who really cares about you.

The point was living with grace, decency, and attention to the world, and breaking free of the artificial constructs in your own life.

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.

Once you crack the script, everything else follows.

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

Instead of one-way interruption, Web marketing is about delivering useful content at just the right moment that a buyer needs it.

Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible.

When women's true history shall have been written, her part in the upbuilding of this nation will astound the world.

Technology has the shelf life of a banana.

Microsoft is now talking about the digital nervous system... I guess I would be nervous if my system was built on their technology too.

Race, blood, lineage, and nationality don't matter; they're just the way that small minds keep score. All that matters about blood is that it's warm and that it beats through a loving heart.

Love is something worth suffering for.

Think about how you will start and where you will go. Get the head with logic and the heart with visuals or stories. And think about your core customer and all the other stakeholders as well.

I'm one of the most decorated tag teams ever!

Magic is love. All magic should be performed out of love. The moment anger or hatred tinges your magic, you have crossed the border into a dangerous world, one that will ultimately consume you.

We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.

Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

The best things in life are silly.

The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.

There was such a difference, he thought, between the beauty that illuminated, and the beauty that was illuminated.

There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind.

I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.

i'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires

She wanted to crawl into his pocket and be safe forever.

The world has changed around me. I've been me, and continuously being me in a constant, steadfast way.

Of course I don't look busy, I did it right the first time.

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

As followers of natural science we know nothing of any relation between thoughts and the brain, except as a gross correlation in time and space.

The more people they can give us upfront the harder we play.

Duets is about six people, so it's like three different movies - three different duets. I was on the set 18 days, spread out over three and a half or four weeks.

Music and songs are written at different periods of time, at different times in your life. They reflect the feelings you have and to be honest, I quite like having positive emotions.

Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition.

And so figure skating was a great vehicle for me to kind of be competitive at something, without having to be big.

Male figure skating is different than female figure skating; we're not America's sweetheart.

O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!

We’re a different sort of thief here, Lamora. Deception and misdirection are our tools. We don’t believe in hard work when a false face and a good line of bullshit can do so much more.

At the root of all misery is unfulfilled desire.

Never confuse activity with action.

It's a landscape that has to be seen to be believed. And, as I say on occasion, it may have to be believed in order to be seen.

I placed the Marines where the hardest work was to be accomplished, and I never once found my confidence in them misplaced.

What's a punk band? Hey, who's got a beer?

If you want to kill an idea without being identified as the assassin, suggest that the legal department take a look at it.

A great brand is a story that's never completely told.

I'm more determined than ever that my husband's dream will become a reality.

The high road is always respected. Honesty and integrity are always rewarded.

If everyone thinks you're doing the right thing, then everyone would be doing it. Have a controversial strategy.