M.M. Scott Quotes
Of all natural forces, vitality is the incommunicable one. . . . Vitality never "takes." You have it or you haven't it, like health or brown eyes or a baritone voice.
All is going well, very well, I couldn’t ask for anything better— So why do I hate my life?
Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.
The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun.
Worthy character is best forged from a life of consistent, correct choices centered in the teachings of the Master.
The lie took form as she spoke, pulling on as many strands of truth as it could reach.
Killing animals to make a fashion statement = a sickening + cold-blooded vanity.
Dance like it hurts. Love like you need money. Work when people are watching. -- Dogbert's Motto
Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.
The best decision-makers are those who are willing to suffer the most over their decisions but still retain their ability to be decisive.
I count myself as one of millions of Americans whose life simply would not be the same without the libraries that supported my learning.
No matter how long you play rock n roll songs might change just as the balls are there, the rock balls. And that's what's important to us.
I can’t tell you just how wonderful she is. I don’t want you to know. I don’t want any one to know.
Any woman who has a great deal to offer the world is in trouble. And if she's a black woman, seh's in deep trouble.
Think of it as the Doorway of No Return. The feeling must be that your lead character, once she passes through, cannot go home again until the major problem of the plot is solved.
Superb historical romance, with a spiritual theme woven seamlessly throughout. I much enjoyed The Covered Deep and look forward to more from its author!
As a quarterback, I've been the guy that people were yelling for; I've been the guy that's been booed in my own stadium.
Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance.
To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.
I like France, where everybody thinks he's Napoleon--down here everybody thinks he's Christ.
We have no sociology of architecture. Architects are unaccustomed to social analysis and mistrust it; sociologists have fatter fish to fry.
Death is the handmaiden of the pilot. Sometimes it comes by accident, sometimes by an act of God.
Creationists who want religious ideas taught as scientific fact in public schools continue to adapt to courtroom defeats by hiding their true aims under ever changing guises.
When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffer and also how to grow.
I learned hard lessons, and I've taken that lesson and it's helped me become a better business person and a better leader.
There is a moment—Oh, just before the first kiss, a whispered word—something that makes it worth while.
Don't start by talking about your products and services instead think about the people you are trying to reach
