M.M. Scott Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well.

Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind?

Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.

Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.

The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to.

The Cheesecake Factory is a great business model, but if you take your wife there for your 25th wedding anniversary, you might not reach your 26th.

I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

Most ideas are born and lost in isolation.

Flesh-eating by humans is unnecessary, irrational, anatomically unsound, unhealthy, unhygienic, uneconomic, unaesthetic, unkind and unethical. May I elaborate?

The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.

It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.

Hope is not defined by the absence of hardship. Rather, hope is found in God’s grace in the midst of hardship. Hope is found in his promise to give us a future.

True love is not a feeling by which we are overwhelmed. It is a committed, thoughtful decision.

The sign of intelligence is the ability to carry opposed thoughts at the same time.

As husbands, I think one reason we have some trouble with Paul's command to love our wives "as Christ loved the church," is that we don't really fully know how Christ loves the church.

I think there's nothing worse than inertia. You can inert and study your navel and gradually you'll fall off the chair. I think the key is to keep flying.

What if i fail?" ...the more profound question is, "what if i never fail?" "Stop making excuses and start managing your fear.

Find the key emotion; this may be all you need know to find your short story.

he used to think that he wanted to be good, he wanted to be kind, he wanted to be brave and wise, but it was all pretty difficult. He wanted to be loved, too, if he could fit it in.

Know your limits, not so that you can honor them, but so that you can smash them to pieces and reach for magnificence.

Focus on your buyers and your buyers problems

It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.

I think the nation as a whole has a role in making sure that each individual, each citizen maximizes one's potential.

Imagination is not enough. Knowledge is necessary.

We must find out for ourselves, otherwise it wouldn't be discovery.

I'm a world-class people watcher. I like to watch people's body movements, their expressions. It says so much about them.

Creator and reader are partners in the invisible creating something out of nothing, time and time again.

People call me all the time and say, “Man, your players aren't signed yet.” Well, it doesn't really matter what time dinner is when you're the steak.

The hand that rocks the cradle should also rock the boat.

Acceptance is the act of embracing what life presents to you with a good attitude.

All things come to him who mates.

To be humble is to be teachable.

Anyone living in Los Angeles who has opposable thumbs is required to write a screenplay.

There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

How many must die before we can really have a free and true and peaceful society?

If sexual relations between consenting adults are not part of the right to privacy guaranteed by the Constitution, then American democracy is in trouble.

If you can write each day, do it, and meet a quota. Minimum 350 words a day. A baboon can do 350 words a day. Don't be shown up by a baboon

I enjoy coming to the ballpark every day. I don't go to work. I come here to play.

You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you.

My philosophy on writing books is that if you learn only one new thing, or even get a new take on something you already know, it's worth it.

I take a multivitamin, vitamin D, and omega-3 oils every day, and if I'm stressed or run- down, I bulk up on vitamin C and zinc.

I grow more intense as I age.