M.M. Scott Quotes

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.

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

You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.

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.

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

I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles.

You don't respect my religion. I don't respect your outfit.

I never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated?

I like the idea that I'm making things that people might think and argue about.

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

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!

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

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

Covetousness bursts the sack and spills the grain.

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

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'.

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

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

Evolution makes biology make sense. And if you don't teach your students the evolutionary core of biology, you're making it harder for them.

I tend to go for women with common sense. Being down to earth stands out more than looks.

My songs were always about the tone of voice rather than the words.

If we seek to be loved - if we expect to be loved - this cannot be accomplished; we will be dependent and grasping not genuinely loving.

I wish I could write. I get these ideas but I never seem to be able to put them in words.

Conversion is a very, very important part of what you are doing. We will have a responsibility to report to Heavenly Father regarding those we bring into the Church.

Always try to maintain complete tolerance and always make an effort to give people more then they expect.

It is our task-our essential, central, crucial task-to transform ourselves from mere social creatures into community creatures.

But take comfort in that I die at peace with the world and myself - not afraid.

I was more interested in skating and the girls and traveling than I was in calculus.

In order to learn, one must change one's mind.

Sometimes I'm extremely afraid of the unknown, but I'm so grateful to be on that journey.

It's a mining town in lotus land.

Premature success gives one an almost mystical conception of destiny as opposed to will power-at its worst the Napoleonic delusion.

A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.

The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.

With total discipline we can solve all problems.

Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom.

I hate waking up every morning to my alarm. I always bang my head on the steering wheel.

I hate big government, but I really hate a government that doesn't work. So when 'they say we either have to raise taxes or cut core services,' it's actually a 'false choice.

Long ago, there was something in me, but now that thing is gone. Now that thing is gone, that thing is gone. I cannot cry. I cannot care. That thing will come back no more.

The world is sick of big IT things that don't work.

She was dazzling-- alight; it was agony to comprehend her beauty in a glance.

It takes two to make an accident.

I wouldn't doubt it if the CIA is behind Alcoholics Anonymous.

There are 6 billion people in the world. It's hard to find the one person who's right for you.

I have a short attention span.

I think movies are getting dumber, actually. Where it used to be 50/50, now it's 3% good, 97% stupid.

We're all looking at the people around us, the people who have gone before us who have succeeded in recovery and have long-term sobriety and they are an illustration for us of how good it can be.

For love is heaven and heaven is love.

Good, bad mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment.

When I can, I do 25 minutes of calisthenics every day.