M.M. Scott Quotes

Falling in love is not an extension of one's limits or boundaries; it is a partial and temporary collapse of them.

If we deny our anger, our pain, our ambition, or our goodness, we will suffer.

If you want to climb it badly enough, you will. So... why bother ?

Having a leading man who is actually prettier than you are is quite upsetting.

No one had to worry about Peter after his conversion. Your investigators can be that converted.

There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.

Feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember

There is no act of love that is not an act of work or courage. No exceptions.

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.

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

I believe it would be considerably healthier for us to dare to live without a reason for many things than with reasons that are simplistic.

Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.

How strange that we should ordinarily feel compelled to hide our wounds when we are all wounded.

The more I sleep the less I have to hang out with everyone

Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.

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

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.

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

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

What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people's minds.

The dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee.

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

You're ten pints of crazy in a one-pint glass.

I've carried a gun for 10 years. I've carried them in the locker room, and nobody really knows about it. I know how to handle myself, and I stow it away where nobody really knows about it.

The Sherry Theater, which I named after my mom, is a place I can go. I do want to give back to the community. There are so many people out there who want to be seen and heard, and get connected.

What is heard and how it is heard is more important than what you say.

To some extent, we are all labeled by what we're able to achieve. But more importantly, we are defined by what we attempt.

If you reach for something and find out it's the wrong thing, you change your program and move on.

If you aren't having no fun, die, because you're running a worthless program, far as I'm concerned.

I'm not very good at sitting still.

I can train a monkey to wave an American flag. That does not make the monkey patriotic.

Movies make you immortal and ageless.

So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like young Lochinvar.

When you're in love, you've found your soul mate, you think life is going one way, and suddenly it's completely apparent it's not. You have to rethink your whole purpose.

She smiled, a moving childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world.

A non-virtual function says, you have to do this and you must do it this way. A virtual function says you have to do this, but you don't have to do it this way. That's their fundamental difference.

Friends, much as in real life, are often more trouble than their worth.

I think we musicians are emissaries. Every time we go before the public, we're there to make converts.