A. O. Scott Quotes

In order to grow emotionally and mentally, sometimes you have to grow physically as well. I'm just trying to grow, man, and always I just want to be the best and most confident me I can be.

In quiet moments when you think about it, you recognize what is critically important in life and what isn't. Be wise and don't let good things crowd out those that are essential.

I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

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.

No matter how low you go, there's always an unexplored basement.

Guys understand a waistline. They understand a silhouette.

When you consider yourself valuable you will take care of yourself in all ways that are necessary.

Look back, and smile on perils past.

The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.

More than anything, it was the blue dolphins that took me back home.

Rational assessments too often led to rational surrenders.

Magic is natural. It is a harmonious movement of energies to create a needed change. If you wish to practice magic, all thoughts of it being paranormal or supernatural must be forgotten.

Call upon the Goddess and God to protect you and teach you the secrets of magic. Ask stones and plants to reveal their powers - and listen.

We are not on this planet to ask forgiveness of our deities.

You have to think about whether that Mercedes-Benz you have is actually worth how much it costs to you.

A woman is more than the sum of her parts.

Treason seldom dwells with courage.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

The greatest profound pain is cased by, and is the result of our own illusions, fantasies and dreams.

Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.

You remind me of a smoked cigarette.

God creates each soul differently, so that when all the mud is finally cleared away, His light will shine through it in a beautiful, colorful, totally new pattern.

Don't sing it, bring it.

Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant.

I do not believe there are any new objections to be discovered to the truth of Christianity. Men may argue ingeniously against our faith, but what can they say in defense of their own?

Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.

A brand is no longer what we tell the consumer it is - it is what consumers tell each other it is.

Don't stop dreaming just because you had a nightmare.

NOBODY messes with "The Bad Guy"!

Don't fear sharing your best ideas online: 1) Competition already knows what you are up to 2) People like leaders not followers.

Blade Runner was the godfather of all these fantastic movies that occur today. What's frustrating is that we're short of really great writing and great ideas. Blade Runner was full of them.

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

Making an album should be an honest experience. It shouldn't be about trying to gauge where popular music is today; it should be about artistic expression and putting down what you want to put down.

A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things.

The best decision is the right decision. The next best decision is the wrong decision. The worst decision is no decision.

I don't have to be walking around like some peasant. I'm royalty!

One of the things I love about Africa is the amount of dignity and respect and humility you see all the time. You don't realise how often you're disrespected until you are surrounded by respect.

Although, I didnt really like sushi until I moved out to L.A.

To me, theater is the mecca; if you really love to act, that's where it's the most fun, by a long shot.

The kiss originated when the first male reptile licked the first female reptile, implying in a subtle way that she was as succulent as the small reptile he had for dinner the night before.

If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefiting women and children.

When I was growing up, my mother would take me to plays and museums, and we'd talk about life. Those times helped shape who I became.

Every single one of us possesses the strength to attempt something he isn't sure he can accomplish.

Peace won by compromise is usually a short lived achievement.

There are few things in life that bring as much joy as the joy that comes from assisting another improve his or her life.

This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the irises of children's eyes.

Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.

So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.

When I first started my own brand, when I needed an icon, I had no other icon but myself. I had to create that.

Sing the song or keep it inside.