A. O. Scott Quotes

Down through the centuries, the Church has carefully preserved, protected, and defended its Marian teachings, because to give them up would be to give up the gospel.

There’s no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated.

I believe God created sports for a good reason. It's recreation. It's something that we enjoy. It teaches us a lot as well... I believe God is a sports fan.

My three P's would be pray, pray first. Second, prepare, and then persist.

Social Media are tools, Real Time is a mindset.

We Shan't Save All We Would Like To, But We Shall Save A Great Deal More Than If We Had Never Tried.

I talk with the authority of failure - Ernest with the authority of success. We could never sit across the same table again.

Say to the seceded States, "Wayward sisters, depart in peace."

When I'm not completely loaded, it's a much more vulnerable place. I can feel the music, I can feel the energy and I really have to put it out there. When I was loaded, I was just oblivious.

Atlantic reckoned we should use a top Yank producer and appointed one Eddie Kramer to the post. It turns out the guy was full of bullshit and couldn't produce a healthy fart.

The strongest guard is placed at the gateway to nothing. Maybe because the condition of emptiness is too shameful to be divulged.

A lot of folks are so busy trying to get their groceries together that they don't have time to do research. I have time. Maybe that's the main difference.

Mutual funds were created to make investing easy, so consumers wouldn't have to be burdened with picking individual stocks.

Pioneering in space was something I would willingly give my life for.

Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.

From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State Building.

Never mind, said Hachiko each day. Here I wait, for my friend who's late. I will stay, just to walk beside you for one more day.

Perspiration is the best form of differentiation, especially in the creative world.

She was a mischief, and that was a satisfaction; no longer was she a huntress of corralled game

I think that the more people who speak out, and say things and take stands on positions that will better our community, the better off each and every other individual artist or otherwise, will be.

I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.

The fact that time is ticking should motivate you to take action on your ideas.

Going into the unknown is invariably frightening, but we learn what is significantly new only through adventures.

Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created - nothing.

Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.

Great God! This is an awful place.

You see people who are disenfranchised elsewhere coming to Comic Con and making lifetime friends. I love seeing the outcasts of society all bonding together.

I've always loved plastics and rubber, and it's such a specifically unique material that you have to have the manufacturing abilities to make it.

A rusted nail, placed near the faithful compass, Will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.

I don't want to look back-I want to keep looking ahead. I'd hate for my defining moment to be my past.

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.

The will to grow is, in essence, the same phenomenon as love. Genuinely loving people are, by definition, growing people.

I can't even say the word, it's too early in the day to get upset.

I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.

History may be accurate. But archaeology is precise.

Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

We can live as we were meant to live - simply, joyously, of and on the earth. We can live with all our effort and with pure happiness.

Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do; they think other people's opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval.

Ernest [Hemmingway] was always ready to lend a helping hand to the one on the rung above him.

Never miss a party...good for the nerves--like celery.

The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife.

Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn’t grow out of either of our species’ two basic instincts: survival and reproduction.

Statistically speaking, there is a 65 percent chance that the love of your life is having an affair. Be very suspicious.

Faith doesn't mean you never doubt. It only means you never act upon your doubts.

People is, I think, it's their nature - some people's nature, in a way, to be angry or jealous or just spiteful about somebody else's blessings.

I may be a douche to some people, but I actually do run companies.

It's the best of the best. No film can hope to top it(Kubrick's 2001).

If you're not doing things right yourself, it's unrealistic to think you can hold other people to a standard.