M.M. Scott Quotes

Making those we love happy sounds innocent as a dove, but it can be as destructive as a lion.

If our mushrooms make you hallucinate, please inform us immediately so we can overcharge you.

Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time. - The Great Gatsby.

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.

The key to successful missionary work is a close relationship between the missionaries and the members. Creating an environment in working with members that will bring more into the Church.

Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informed citizenry.

Think of the long view of life, not just what's going to happen today or tomorrow. Don't give up what you most want in life for something you think you want now.

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

The revolution will not be televised.

Without choice, you have no innovation. Without innovation, you have nothing.

I stand for limited government, fiscal responsibility, personal freedom, personal responsibility, so the Republican Party will support me.

What's the whole point of being pretty on the outside when you're so ugly on the inside?

Panic in Wall Street, brokers feeling melancholy.

Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.

Well, a lot of successes come by mistake.

Well, I can't describe her exactly-except to say that she was beautiful. She was-tremendously alive.

Everybody's looking for love, and you want to love somebody and be loved in return.

Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.

Whatever happens in my life, whether I stand up or I fall down, whatever the case, I'm going to use it in my art. Why? Because I'm an artist and I have to.

The high desert has an effect on people. The place has a way of swallowing you up.

The flight experience itself is incredible. It's addictive. It's transcendent. It is a view of the grand plan of all things that is simply unforgettable.

There are 16 year olds competing at the olympics and i still push on pull doors & struggle getting through the whole day without a nap.

Im always trying to improve my skills as an actor. I think it shows in El Gringo; it shows in the new Universal Soldier. You cant rest on your laurels; youve got to keep improving.

The tear, down childhood's cheek that flows, Is like the dewdrop on the rose; When next the summer breeze comes by And waves the bush, the flower is dry.

The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources.

Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.

Life is a series of problems. Do we want to moan about them or solve them?

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

Crime is actually less in places where people own guns. Washington, D.C., is a case in point. It has the strictest gun laws, but who has the highest crime rate in the country? Washington, D.C.

Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges

A warrior with a cause is the most dangerous soldier of all

The truth is, I feel beyond sad. I feel empty. Numb.

Forgotten is forgiven.

He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf, muttering that if one brick was removed the whole library was liable to collapse.

I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified.

You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.

Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.

Cold walls do not a prison make, nor iron bands a bondsman.

I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.

The first word gives origin to the second, the first and second to the third, and the third to the fourth, and so on. You cannot begin with the second word.

It doesn't matter what kind of problems a family is having; it should always stay in the family.

Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and wisdom.

Throwing blondes at Locke Lamora was not unlike throwing lettuce at sharks.

'Rapa Nui' is about the conflict in the 1600s on Easter Island. It's about the clash of the royal clan and the working class.