A. O. Scott Quotes

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

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

Im more in love with Rock n Roll today than other things. It grows, you know?

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

Violence diminishes our humanity.

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

I have come to the conclusion that life in the Antarctic Regions can be very pleasant.

So live. Live. Fight like hell. And when you get too tired to fight, lay down and rest and let somebody else fight for you.

Remember there are no mistakes, only lessons. Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible

I love what I do, and I only want more. I love the whole process. I love designing, I love figuring out how to make the clothes happen, I love the ad campaigns.

Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.

It's odd that men feel they must protect women, since for the most part they must be protected from men.

The brain is a mystery; it has been and still will be. How does the brain produce thoughts? That is the central question and we have still no answer to it.

We are most often in the dark when we are the most certain, and the most enlightened when we are the most confused.

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.

No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.

What kills a person at twenty-five? Leukemia. An accident. But George knows the better odds are that someone who passes at that age dies of unhappiness. Drug overdose. Suicide. Reckless behavior.

Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love.

Train where your fitness is NOW, not where you want to be.

The revolution that takes place in your head, nobody will ever see that.

Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.

The will to do, the soul to dare..

Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it's room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!

Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down.

As one looks across the barren stretches of the pack, it is sometimes difficult to realise what teeming life exists immediately beneath its surface.

And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.

The Mass-and I mean every single Mass-is heaven on earth. Literally.

Normal people... believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.

I'm a special drunkard... I drink too much.

People think I'm being stupid or false humble. It's not. I don't think I always fit in. Maybe it's a complex you get as someone who has always been fighting on the outside.

I work hard at it [delivery of lyrics], just like I worked hard at getting my masters degree. It's not just something I sit down and do. You have to learn and keep learning.

Every great team that I've been on, the offensive linemen was the bell cows of the whole team.

It's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be.

Action is character.

Don't forget who you are and where you come from.

When you push against the boundaries of experience into the twilight of the unknown, the Lord will strengthen you. The beauty of your eternal soul will begin to unfold.

Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.

Comment is free but facts are sacred.

I hope you live a life you're proud of...

They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.

The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.

Processed pig is white trash meat. Some people call it Spam.

The highest human purpose is always to reinvent and celebrate the sacred.

There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings.

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

Hypocrites get offended by the truth.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

Some stories wait their turn to be told, others just tap you on the shoulder and insist you tell them.

The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning.