M.M. Scott Quotes

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

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.

Nothing any good isn't hard.

Write like you're in love. Edit like you're in charge.

Self examination is the key to insight, which is the key to wisdom

God in his goodness sent the grapes To cheer both great and small; Little fools will drink too much And great fools none at all!

When we love something it is of value to us, and when something is of value to us we spend time with it, time enjoying it and time taking care of it.

You take the thing that is the worst thing that could have happened to you, the worst challenge in your life, and you turn it into fuel. You don't give up. And that's what Gotham is about.

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

The pedestal is immobilizing and subtly insulting whether or not some women yet realize it. We must move up from the pedestal.

The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.

A lot of actors talk about doing their homework, but very few of them do it.

Injuries are our best teachers.

I just love jumping into someone else's life. It is a relatively cheap way to experience things you would be too scared to contemplate in your own life.

One hand was behind his back, and he held it out, presenting a bouquet of white and smoky purple lilies. "They're straight from the underworld, by the way. They are everlasting. They won't die."

I never say that evolution is a fact. Evolution is a theory. It's much more important than a fact, because theories explain things.

In the end, it all comes to choices to turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones.

We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.

We really didn't talk a whole lot about relationships. I believe I asked if he had ever been married, and he said no.

Balls in general are not a good looking item.

Everything in life should be approached as a project. Every project can be broken down into just three things: Action Steps, Backburner Items, and References.

The process of nonviolence is one that takes time and those of us who've suffered, who've been persecuted over the years, would like to see things change, you know, overnight.

Do you ever wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it!

We know the goats are imported because they don't speak English.

Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.

Reality is always controlled by the people who are the most insane.

All man-made religions are limited. I go my own way.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.

They have assumed the names and gestures of their enemies, but have held on to their own, secret souls; and in this there is a resistance and an overcoming, a long outwaiting.

I used to build dreams about you.

'Torts' more or less means 'wrongs'...One of my friends said that Torts is the course which proves that your mother was right.

Always remember there is nothing worth sharing, like the love that let us share our name.

It was testimony to the romantic speculation he inspired that there were whispers about him from those who had found little that it was necessary to whisper about in this world.

You can stroke people with words.

Be content to love, to dazzle in the light, If only for moments… And then be gone, With gladness in your heart, Before the creeping shadows Claim too much your sadness at leaving.

Your imagination comes to life, and this, you think, is where Creation was begun.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

Marriage is meant to be more about your surrender than about your satisfaction.

I think my first bikini, I was four and it was polka dotted and I had a big belly and I looked dashing.

I firmly believe people have the power to make decisions locally and cooperatively. Anarchism is how that is put into practice.

When a man is tired of life on his 21st birthday it indicates that he is rather tired of something in himself.

We think computing ought to be like a telephone or a water tap or a light switch.

Vacant heart, and hand, and eye, Easy live and quiet die.

come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

I watched Someone to Watch Over Me the other night. I thought it was a really good movie. It's a great movie.

I gotta learn to rap.

The more games you coach, the more comfortable you feel.

The flowers were so beautiful, so delicate and unthreatening, but they choked everything around them.

I guess that when you invade a nation of warlords, you end up having to deal with warlords.