A. O. Scott Quotes

The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.

In Hollywood today, it's cool for guys to wear nail polish and earrings in their lips and tongues. I don't get it.

Ender didn't like fighting. He didn't like Peter's kind, the strong against the weak, and he didn't like his own kind either, the smart against the stupid.

Shay sometimes talked in a mysterious way, like she was quoting the lyrics of some band no one else listened to.

Until you see the cross as that which is done _by_ you, you will never appreciate that it is done _for_ you.

As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do.

Kick him when he's down, he's easier to reach.

Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.

Who ever walked behind anyone to freedom? If we can't go hand in hand, I don't want to go.

He's a bootlegger....One time he killed a man who found out that he was nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil.

As powerful as our legs are, as magnificent as our lungs and arms and muscles are, nothing matters more than the mind.

The Dilbert Principle: People are idiots.

Saturday Night Live is a show that I think I could have a lot of fun on, just being different characters and maybe singing, too.

We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.

We showed that when we say 'Wisconsin is open for business', we mean it.

At no time, when the astronauts were in space were they alone, there was a constant surveillance by UFOs.

I don't want to hurt you but I will if I have too - Tally Youngblood

However stupid the choice seemed, Shay had made it with her eyes open, and had respected Tally's choice to stay.

One judge is coughing his life out into bloody handkerchiefs and the other is burying his wife, and you think this is how God answers your prayers?

I never did drugs and I can't really drink because I have zero tolerance for alcohol, so my vice became women. I was never faithful to most of them.

I don't really necessarily think I'm a funny guy, but I like the opportunity to take on something that I don't feel I'm the best at doing.

I love everything Minnesota.

I thought that subtitles are boring because they're there generally to serve us with information to make you understand what people are saying in a different language.

How many businesses do you know that want to cut their revenue in half? That's why the healthcare system won't change the healthcare system.

Why would heavy metal ever go away?

It's a hard, simple calculus: Run until you can't run anymore. Then run some more. Find a new source of energy and will. Then run even faster.

I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.

Just let awareness have its way with you completely.

Anything is bearable if you can make a story out of it.

Say hello...to the BAD GUY!

If you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear a flower in your hair.

As the centuries pass, the evidence is accumulating that, measured by His effect on history, Jesus is the most influential life ever lived on this planet.

Mental attitude is more important than mental capacity.

Gun control means control. It means control for the government and the government starts controlling the people.

Love is the free exercise of choice. Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of living without each other but choose to live with each other.

You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.

Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.

I just think it's silly to be stingy with compliments. If you see someone and they strike you as beautiful in any way, why not let them know?

There is nothing like walking to get the feel of a country. A fine landscape is like a piece of music; it must be taken at the right tempo. Even a bicycle goes too fast

We can fight seizures if we fight for our dreams everyday and appreciate the little things we accomplish.

I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.

A boy may be as disagreeable as he pleases, but when a girl refuses to crap sunshine on command, the world mutters darkly about her moods.

To be a queen of a household is a powerful thing.

We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution.

Good things happen when you get your priorities straight.

When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth.

In an infinite multiverse, there is no such thing as fiction.

On the web, you are what you publish.

Life is too short to live on low-fat everything.

I had been to New Mexico many times. I loved it. It's a very exotic, interesting, severely crazy environment. I don't know if I could live there all year. It's such an intense place.