M.M. Scott Quotes

I think I'm one of few American designers doing a house in Europe, and I think I've been proving myself there very well.

An idea can only become a reality once it is broken down into organized, actionable elements.

Artists want to sell their work, sure. But they aren't out there asking questions about what people want and what they don't want, now are they?

I am so bored with seeing stories about a mature man of 65 falling in love with a beautiful girl of 32.

The Orange Revolution was a powerful example of democracy around the world. The people of Ukraine are continuing to shape their own future.

I do not fall. I fell so hard so long ago there is nothing left for me to land on. I just keep falling and falling and falling.

Those sweet lips. My, oh my, I could kiss those lips all night long. Good things come to those who wait.

To envision what will be, you must remove yourself from the constant concern for what already is.

Good FBI officers are not noticeable. You would never look at them.

You have to be humble when you're dealing with God.

I learned hard lessons, and I've taken that lesson and it's helped me become a better business person and a better leader.

Winners are born, Champions are made.

When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffer and also how to grow.

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.

The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.

We have no sociology of architecture. Architects are unaccustomed to social analysis and mistrust it; sociologists have fatter fish to fry.

I like France, where everybody thinks he's Napoleon--down here everybody thinks he's Christ.

Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.

Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance.

Who doesn’t have a polo shirt? Only somebody from, like, Lake Minnetonka.

Superb historical romance, with a spiritual theme woven seamlessly throughout. I much enjoyed The Covered Deep and look forward to more from its author!

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.

A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.

Life is simply experience; for reasons not readily discerned, we attempt to go on.

I count myself as one of millions of Americans whose life simply would not be the same without the libraries that supported my learning.

If comedy duos don't like each other, it just won't work.

He had a winning smile, but everything else was a loser.

I'm not a wilting flower. I'm honest, so I pick a lot of fights. I've burned a lot of bridges.

I've been on the road for fifteen years and I had no intent to stop.

Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.

my imagination persisted in sticking horrors into the dark- so I stuck my imagination into the dark instead, and let it look out at me.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.

The victor belongs to the spoils.

New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.

I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.

Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.

Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.

You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.

Hunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog.

Difficulties are what makes it honorable and interesting to be alive.

Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the deep hunger, for family, for love, for belonging.

Today, comics is one of the very few forms of mass communication in which individual voices still have a chance to be heard.

The primary source of the appeal of Christianity was Jesus - His incarnation, His life, His crucifixion, and His resurrection.

I see myself being a great-grandmother at my great-grandson's graduation from a school that has my name on it.

Balls in general are not a good looking item.

The thing I do at the beginning is a "voice journal," a free form doc that is the character speaking to me. I just work on it until I start to hear different from my own, or the other characters.

So I think instead of focusing on the competition, focus on the customer.

The semi-colon is a burp, a hiccup. It's a drunk staggering out of the saloon at 2 a.m., grabbing your lapels on the way and asking you to listen to one more story.

I can't ever give up, because I can't ever leave my daughters.

A writing teacher once told me that the most successful movies and books were simple plots about complex characters. You should be able to articulate your concept in a couple of lines.