M.M. Scott Quotes

I grew to see my affliction as my gift. When I sang, I soared. I could soar higher than all those hurts aimed at my heart. All I needed was the courage to be me.

Scott Peterson was a pathological liar to me - nothing he said was the truth.

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.

Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

As I grow through love, so grows my joy, ever more present, ever more constant.

I want to care, but I don’t. I look at you and all I feel is tired.

I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know.

The first time you see something that you have never seen before, you almost always know right away if you should eat it or run away from it.

Any fool can see the limits of seeing, but not even the wisest know the limits of knowing. Thus is ignorance rendered invisible, and are all Men made fools.

I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.

Here we find further argument for Gotagga’s supposition that the world is round. How else could all men stand higher than their brothers?

I'm going to do as much as I can with this life, and then I'm going to make sure to take some time off and be simple and ride my bike and hang out with friends.

A friend is someone who can brighten your day with a simple smile, when others try to do it with a thousand words.

We cannot be a source for strength unless we nurture our own strength.

My name's Jean Tannen, and I'm the ambush.

It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.

You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.

The highs, the lows, the peaks, the valleys, whatever, it's all going to go into the art, whether I'm singing or acting or whatever.

But there's a difference between privacy and secrecy, and I'm not a secretive person.

I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

Nobody actually talks to anybody anymore. People in cubicles next to each other, they e-mail each other.

The government paid the family of Richard Nixon $18 million for papers, tape recordings and other materials seized after Watergate.

For me, hair is an accoutrement. Hair is jewelry. It's an accessory.

If you can't take the heat, don't tickle the dragon.

There is no idea so bad that it cannot be made to look brilliant with the proper application of fonts and color.

It's always better if you're next door. Ideas come up at the oddest times. They don't always come up in a conference call.

Apple controls the licensing. It's their trademark.

To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.

It is not His teachings which make Jesus so remarkable, although these would be enough to give Him distinction. It is a combination of the teachings with the man Himself. The two cannot be separated.

In case you're not a computer person, I should probably point out that 'Real Soon Now' is a technical term meaning 'sometime before the heat-death of the universe, maybe'.

The human population is 90% gullible, violence-prone dipshits.

I care not who hoes the lettuce of my country if I can eat the salad!

Money is necessary -- both to support a family and to advance causes one believes in.

All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever.

Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.

Working at Moschino has been great because I just have to deliver when I have to deliver.

I think when people think of something as basic, they think that it's boring.

Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, morn of toil, nor night of waking.

I fell far short of living up to the kind of public servant I wanted to be.

Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her; If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, Till she cry "Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you!

Like the dew on the mountain, like the foam on the river, like the bubble on the fountain, thou art gone, and for ever!

Setbacks are what build character. They are what separate the lucky from the truly successful.

This is a big deal. It's a fairly natural partnership; it shouldn't surprise people, ... We're working on bringing this network-is-the-computer, Net services environment.

Covetousness bursts the sack and spills the grain.

I have tough skin. I don't really read any of the comments unless they are positive. I don't accept that much negativity in my life. It's not an option.

Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.

Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.

For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.

I never expected the White House to be warm, and the artwork on the walls was extraordinary. I am a fan of the Louvre, but being there it was almost just as good.