A. O. Scott Quotes

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

Never confuse activity with action.

Yes, we have a dress code. You have to dress.

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

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

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

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

To go to Mass is to go to Heaven.

I'm 33...before AC/DC I've played in a lot of bands in Australia. You're never too old to rock and roll.

To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.

I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.

But I don't want massive layoffs of anyone - public or private. We are planning on shrinking government through attrition and reform, not through random pink slips.

But we have been to the Pole and we shall die like gentlemen. I regret only for the women we leave behind.

What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.

The only thing that I'm sure of is I don't know, but I know that positivity works.

The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?

It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!

Without Coretta Scott King, there would not have been a Martin Luther King, Jr. in the way that we know him.

If you want me to shine, you need to give me the parole to do that.

All I've ever done is work in bars and be a wrestler; I often wonder if I'd have pumped gas, would I have been a womanizer and had addiction problems?

I love the smell of a woman's armpit when she's not wearing deodorant.

When I'm with you, I don't breathe quite right.

I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.

Magic is not always serious or solemn. It is a joyous celebration and merging with the life-force.

Nowadays, everything's evolved into superheroes and it's boring. If I see one more superhero movie I'm going to shoot myself.

Think like a publisher, not a marketer.

You are the loveliest thing that I have ever known.

A memorized scripture becomes an enduring friend that does not weaken with the passage of time.

If you want to talk to God, pray. If you want him to talk to you, read your scriptures.

Great classic music that I've been turned on to has not only inspired and influenced me, but it has had an effect on my songwriting.

Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand!

Dance tango and you are literally plastered up against somebody's body

When aroused the American conscience is a powerful force for reform.

The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.

Never be put off by anything because failure teaches you something.

Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

I was enjoying myself now. I had taken two finger bowls of champagne and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental and profound.

Only when we cease to rely on our own strength can we discover that God's strength is always there for us.

If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.

Vengeance to God alone belongs; But, when I think of all my wrongs My blood is liquid flame!

When Good Friday comes, these are the moments in life when we feel there's no hope. But then, Easter comes.

Death is nothing at all; it does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room.

Every man as well as every day has its lights and shades.

Violence diminishes our humanity.

For the storyteller, for the arrowmaker, language does indeed represent the only chance for survival.

I've never had a message for anyone in my entire life. Except maybe to give out my room number.

Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless.

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

Heap on more wood! - the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still.