M.M. Scott Quotes

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

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

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

Steady of heart and stout of hand.

If you spend all your time arguing with people who are nuts, you'll be exhausted and the nuts will still be nuts.

I make no distinction between the mind and the spirit, and therefore no distinction between the process of achieving spiritual growth and achieving mental growth. They are one and the same.

To know another, and to be known by another--that is everything.

Christianity is usually called a religion. As a religion it has had a wider geographic spread and is more deeply rooted among more peoples than any other religion in the history of mankind.

The prophets and the writers of the Psalms were clear that God was continuing to work in the universe and in all history. They declared that He had created the universe.

The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American.

The Psalms, the anthology of the hymns of Israel, are still used by Christians.

Freedom was conditioned by man's physical body, heredity, and environment.

The story of my life is profoundly unclear. It is a rock-and-roll story and, at the same time, a story of my walk with Christ. The two are melded together in ways both unpredictable and unsure.

We who are old know that age is more than a disability. It is an intense and varied experience, almost beyond our capacity at times, but something to be carried high.

You can sell millions of records, be showered with all this love and admiration and still feel despised and unwanted. That's what I felt. I've made a lot of mistakes I'm not proud of.

Public schools are where the next generation of leaders are educated and where cultural exchange will take place.

Pucky lads, a wee bit over their heads.

In terms of jumping into a characters skin, I try to immerse myself in the role as much as possible to bring me closer to them. All I do is whats required to achieve what I want to achieve.

I've produced more pilots than United Airlines, and they've all been disasters. Every audition I ever took in my life I lost.

My problems were not what ended Creed.

I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.

The words seemed to bite physically into Gatsby.

Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so.

America is a willingness of the heart.

He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths - so that he could 'come over' some afternoon to a stranger's garden.

And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.

New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world.

Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story.

When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.

Welcome as the flowers in May.

They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two.

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.

I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.

O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!

I love the excitement, the childlike spirit of innocence and just about everything that goes along with Christmas.

There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever.

Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems ... create our courage and wisdom.

Maybe that was the price of loving someone: you lost your grasp of where they ended and you began.

Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos.

My role model is my dad.

I was training more learning how to scuba dive which I'd never done which was really, really, really cool.

If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.

I was a total athlete. I loved sports, but when I realized I wasn't going to be a professional athlete, I realized I wanted to be in movies.

Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand but ultimately they are indistinguishable.

It's weird, marriage. It's like this license that gives a person the legal right to control their spouse / their 'other half.

Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.

A true friend is a gift from God. Since God doesn't exist, guess what? Neither do true friends.

My dad was diagnosed with cancer, so we ended up burying him a year to the day that he was diagnosed.

Though all men be equally frail before the world, the differences between them are terrifying.