A. O. Scott Quotes

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

I want to win a championship and to win the Indy 500 makes me want it so much more.

There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.

Recognize the good in others, not their stains.

Throughout my career, Ive wrestled a lot of countries.

That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.

I'm being all of me, and it feels stupendous. I don't want to leave this feeling.

A boy and a girl, dressed in the T-shirts and denim that are the shabby uniform of this age.

If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.

Big Poppa Pump is your hook up, and the next heavyweight championship of the world!

Creativity is, quite simply, a genuine interest combined with initiative.

And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave, O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

I witness that as you gain experience and success in being guided by the Spirit, your confidence in the impressions you feel can become more certain than your dependence on what you see or hear.

I try not to take people who haven't really thought out what they're doing too seriously. I try not to let them get in the way of what I feel I need to do.

Do you want to be mesmermized by the physical phenomenon?

Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.

Life does not acommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.

If we meet somebody who has never made a mistake, lets help them start a religion. Until then, were just going to meet other humans and help to make each other better.

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

Every day people judge all other people. The question is whether they judge wisely.

They ex­pect­ed to lose. And there­fore, they lost. [..] Peo­ple who start think­ing deep dark thoughts in the mid­dle of a war start ex­pect­ing to lose.

Computers and the Internet have made it really easy to rant. It's made everyone overly opinionated.

Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.

Magic is our birthright...and should be available to all who wish to utilize it as a tool of personal transformation.

The cops drive by to do some more good deeds A young black male spits a sunflower seed in the air.

Trust and honesty is an investment you put in people.

God sometimes gives us what we want so we'll learn to trust Him to give us what we need.

I was married at the time when I first joined the band and my wife said: 'Why don't you write a song about me ?' So I wrote 'She's got balls'. Then she divorced me.

I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.

I don't speak Italian, but I do speak Moschino.

Isn't it strange how the leaders of nations can talk so eloquently about peace while they prepare for war? ... There is no way to make peace while preparing for war.

People have to allow themselves to be used by God and Martin [Luther King, Jr.] committed himself totally to God's will and purpose and God is always waiting for someone who is willing to do that.

Creativity is great-but not in accounting.

You already have zero privacy - get over it.

The power is neutral. It cannot be divided into positive and negative energies. Power is power.

Womenfolk raised me and I was full-grown before I knew I came from a broken home

If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side.

Master the rules of the game until you can play it better they can.

A joyless Catholic is the devil's best tool. A joyful Catholic is God's greatest instrument.

It’s not the fear of writing that blocks people, it’s fear of not writing well; something quite different.

Some people are meant to fall in love with each other, but not meant to be together.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go

And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

The patriot who feels himself in the service of God, who acknowledges Him in all his ways, has the promise of Almighty direction, and will find His Word in his greatest darkness.

Pure love is an incomparable, potent power for good. Righteous love is the foundation of a successful marriage.

No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.

She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.