A. O. Scott Quotes

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

On the web, you are what you publish.

It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree.

May our afflictions be few, but may we learn not to squander them.

The only things I regret, and the only things I'll ever regret are things I didn't do. In the end, that's what we mourn. The paths we didn't take. The people we didn't touch.

Learn from everyone. Follow no one. Watch for patterns. Work like hell.

Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom.

We have reached a strange new place in marketing when tweets become full-page print ads.

Success Corrupts and Limits Potential as Soon as You Start to Think You Could Do It Alone.

I was very active but I was dyslexic and had a really hard time at school.

Above all, train hard, eat light, and avoid TV and people with negative attitudes.

Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives.

Am I a myth? Am I a legend? Or am I a phenomenon?

Colour is not the issue in America; class is.

Get over it - If you have a bad workout or run a bad race, allow yourself exactly 1 hour to stew about it-then move on.

You can hurt more than you ever thought possible, then continue until you discover that hurting isn't that big a deal.

Family, work, familiarity. Listen, if I had a magic wand and I could make myself really be happy, I'd zap me onto a farm. And I know nothing about farming.

Be sure to lie to your kids about the benevolent, all-seeing Santa Claus. It will prepare them for an adulthood of believing in God.

In fact, one could argue that the skill of the fiction writer boils down to the ability to exploit intensity.

I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.

Most people doubt online meeting scan work, but they somehow overlook that most in person meetings don't work either.

When 99% of people doubt your idea, you're either gravely wrong or about to make history.

The unions say 'last hired - first fired,', we say hire and fire based on merit. We want the best and brightest in the classroom.

Unified worship points us beyond the methodology to the true heart and goal of worship as God's people humbly come together unified in the Spirit to worship Christ!

When you think of the debonair, ridiculously good-looking guy, you think of me.

I love my country more than anything. I spent 12 years in the United States Marine Corps. I know what it means to defend this country.

Despite the reams of paperwork, obstacles worthy of a horse show, and a wait that can rival an elephant's gestation, adoption feels no different on the inside.

Television: The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.

There is no sin or transgression, pain or sorrow, which is outside of the healing power of His Atonement.

I don't have 30 days and 30 nights to show you why all the hoochies say there's nothing finer...than Scott Steiner.

I will not be labelled as average.

Madness, and then illumination.

All the dreams you show up in are not your own.

We just want to make the walls cave in and the ceiling collapse. Music is meant to be played as loudly as possible, really raw and punchy, and I'll punch out anyone who doesn't like it the way I do.

There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance.

When I'm dead twenty-five years, people are going to begin to recognize me.

I think we're lucky because there are very few people in life who get to do what we're doing.

You need a team that's going to care about this thing as much as you do.

Everyone wants to play. They're just afraid of looking stupid. But you know what's stupid? Not trying. So just...try.

The ocean . . . cold and wild the surf, rushing in to overwhelm the beach, the wind, stinging my cheeks, enveloping me in total freedom.

There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.

Nothing happens until I make it happen.

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

I'm running for Governor, and this Honey Badger is ready to fight.

South Carolina is a great place to be from.

I cannot think of a day in my life when the library didn’t exert a potent attraction for me, offering a sense of the specialness of each individual’s curiosity and his or her quest to satisfy it.

Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence, but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity.

Just bc u loved and lost doesn't mean stop loving. If u have a nightmare, does it mean u stop dreaming?

The freedom of the mind is the beginning of all other freedoms.

Honor all living things, for we are of the stag, and the salmon, and the bee; so destroy not life, save it be to preserve your own.