M.M. Scott Quotes

I've never seen impeccable logic be sufficient to win both the heart and the mind.

I was steeped in the understanding that if 'something is Roman [Catholic], it must be wrong.

Research is what drives me. When I get a script, I go to the real world and touch the real people.

The real world is where I get to educate and entertain myself. I go and touch the real world and touch real people. That's my way into movies.

We must leave this terrifying place to-morrow and go searching for sunshine.

Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.

The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain.

but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering.

My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness.

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.

It was too late - everything was too late. For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his decisions upon emotions unstable as water.

Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.

Love always requires courage and involves risk.

Other people are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.

I'm very wary of trust, you see.

We become what we want to be by consistently being what we want to become each day.

I've always been a big fan of time travel, and I'm very into the notion that some day we'll be able to do it. Beam me up!

I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.

I always believed in God and Christ, but I was in rebellion - trying to make my relationship with God fit into my life instead of making my life fit in with him. I was stubborn.

If reassurances could dull pain, nobody would ever go to the trouble of pressing grapes.

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.

We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.

Despite what some people have said, President Bush did not want black people to die in New Orleans. However, he did hope they would not relocate to any areas of Texas that he likes to frequent.

I was always amazed about how much I could finally squeeze into a thirty second commercial.

Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given you by good people, by people who love you.

I knew exactly what to do on Alien, it was funny.

When you have a good romance, find ways to make their lives miserable and hellish...Do you think 'Titanic' would have been so popular if they had both lived? Not a prayer.

I'm cool with the way I look, I'm not an ugly dog, but I don't see myself as a stud or anything.

He used both hands when he made the bear. Imagine a bear proceeding from the hands of God.

The only risk of failure is promotion.

Everyone checks out my mom. My mom's hot.

Most men's awareness doesn't extend past their dinner plates.

I prefer to break new ground, but it gets harder and harder with the territory that's already been walked on.

I am absolutely convinced that Florida will become the most exciting place in the world to live and work.

I go where the lizards tell me.

We have to launch a national campaign against homophobia in the black community.

Be dramatically willing to focus on the customer at all costs, even at the cost of obsoleting your own stuff.

Happiness is the relief after extreme tension

If I could embed a locator chip in my child right now, I know I would do that. Some people call that Big Brother; I call it being a father.

Seriously, in America there are more big, curvy girls than there are little girls, and men love us, too.

You never cared enough to be Black

Now my drug is writing or acting, being creative.

I don't care about truth. I want some happiness.

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

On the canvas of life, Every sweep of the brush matters, Counts for something.

I grew up on movie sets, getting to see storytelling happen up close.

When I was 17 years old, I was in the music business.