M.M. Scott Quotes

Sordid selfishness doth contract and narrow our benevolence, and cause us, like serpents, to infold ourselves within ourselves, and to turn out our stings to the entire world besides.

Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.

Not just a timely movie, a great one...Timbuktu feels at once timely and permanent, immediate and essential.

The musical performances do more than enrich the movie; they complete it.

STARTLING & INVENTIVE...This is not a movie that lets go of you easily.

I can't decide if this movie is so spectacularly, breathtakingly dumb as to induce stupidity in anyone who watches, or so brutally brilliant that it disarms all reason. What's the difference?

This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.

nonviolence first changes the individual.

I go where the lizards tell me.

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

Now my drug is writing or acting, being creative.

It makes me sad because I've never seen such--such beautiful shirts before.

The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.

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

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

I am trying to send directions out and keep control of state government for the final month.

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

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

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

You'll find another.' God! Banish the thought. Why don't you tell me that 'if the girl had been worth having she'd have waited for you'? No, sir, the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody.

Bryant Gumbel's ego has applied for statehood. And if it's accepted, it will be the fifth-largest.

If we are not careful, we will convey the message that investigators have to be perfect. Not true!

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

Disinformation, in order to be effective, must be 90% accurate.

Viewers figure, 'Uncle Willard doesn't know any more about the weather than I do.' They're right.

He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.

It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.

You never cared enough to be Black

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

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.

Happiness is the relief after extreme tension

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

I have about nine guitars in all, so obviously I'm into collecting.

If you wish to discern either the presence or absence of integrity, you need to ask only one question. What is missing? Has anything been left out?

I can walk down the street all day and people look at me, but they don't talk to me or stop me.

Like it or not taking risks, by a total commitment to the mountain and the vagaries of the weather, is essential for the greater satisfaction to be derived from mountaineering.

Nothing substitutes a large apprenticeship, a heap of experiences which converts into the base of intuition.

The power to gossip is more democratically distributed than power, property, and income, and, certainly, than the freedom to speak openly.

There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.

I used to be so intensely preoccupied by unhappiness... now there are times where you might get down, but you can move on much faster now.

I never thought I'd be in a family that has more people than a small country.

Why don't we have the chemistry that Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet had in Titanic? I'll tell you one reason: Because we're not in a movie!

Every once in a while, you live long enough to get the respect that people didn't want to give while you were trying to become a senior citizen.

I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me.

You're making a movie, not a documentary. If you made a film like the historians would like you to make, you're not going to go and see it. I'd rather see paint dry.

When we went to war at the Falklands, Buck Kernan had to shake each man's hand as we boarded a boat for war.

Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it.

I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.

From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.

Sometimes, all it takes is a few words to change your life.