A. O. Scott Quotes
Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and wisdom.
I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
All the haters are just jealous, so they're trying to bring me down. I'm young, handsome, successful, wealthy. You could say I'm a role model – I'm the American dream!
I love different themes, different venues, different movies. I love to jump about and tackle different subjects. I have no intellectual master plan.
Broken I run to you for your arms are open wide. I am weary but I know your touch restores my life.
In order to climb properly on big peak one must free oneself of fear. This means you must write yourself off before any big climb. You must say to yourself, I may die here.
You might argue that the history of contemporary art is a series of avant-garde movements, each new wave outraging the last.
I'm a secret interior decorator. There's a mural on my dining room wall of the railroad tracks at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia. I love having my hometown with me out here in California.
I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.
I promised to empower the taxpayer - instead of a handful of big government union bosses.
A matador is a guy who didn't have enough people skills to be promoted to serial killer.
The problem with contemporary art is that no one bothers to do the research necessary to give people what they want.
What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?
Today's marketing success comes from self-publishing web content that people want to share. It's not about gimmicks. It's not about paying an agency to interrupt others.
It doesn't matter what kind of problems a family is having; it should always stay in the family.
The only thing I'd rather own than Windows is English. Then I'd be able to charge you an upgrade fee every time I add new letters like N and T.
Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.
Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
The TV weatherman has always been one of the best, most secure jobs. They change anchors, they change the set, producers come and go. But the weather person hangs on forever!
I love New York on summer afternoons when everyone's away. There's something very sensuous about it - overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands.
There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the trust is broken, things can get very embarrassing for the writers and the publisher.
See yonder rock from which the fountain gushes; is it less compact of adamant, though waters flow from it? Firm hearts have moister eyes.
Like when I had long hair, you kind of got male attention from everything. But when you had short hair, it was a different kind of man that was attracted to you or I found coming up.
I may not have proved a great explorer, but we have done the greatest march ever made and come very near to great success.
This is what I think now: that the natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness.
The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaiety, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for it.
The terminal path may, to distinguish it from internuncial common paths, be called the final common path. The motor nerve to a muscle is a collection of such final common paths.
Studies show that people that are on welfare are higher users of drugs than people not on welfare.
Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.
From my standpoint, I want to work with homeland security, justice to make sure that U.S. citizens' vote is not diluted.
Most other competitions are individual achievements, but the Olympic Games is something that belongs to everybody.
Since the Lord will not force you to learn, you must exercise your agency to authorize the Spirit to teach you.
My job is to get people back to work and make tough decisions. I've been willing to do it.
There's a gigantic gray area between good moral behavior and outright felonious activities. I call that the Weasel Zone and it's where most of life happens.
My intent is simply to know my material so well that I'm very comfortable with it. Confidence, not perfection, is the goal.
You don’t know what a trial it is to be —like me. I've got to keep my face like steel in the street to keep men from winking at me.