M.M. Scott Quotes

The important aspect shouldn't be whose administration it is, the important aspect should be how does the state of Wisconsin work, what can we do to move Wisconsin forward.

Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours---ambition is the serious business of life.

I want you to take a red-hot bath as hot as you can bear it, and just relax your nerves. You can read in the tub if you wish.

I didn't realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.

We move forward, but we must stay in the present.

Becoming an artist cannot be taught. A degree and diligence is not a guarantee that one can become an 'artist.

I believe all of us only use one tenth of our brain. I know people who use one per cent only!

Science is a good thing. News reporters are good things too. But it's never a good idea to put them in the same room.

I'm sure one reason I became an actor is my basic unwillingness to live one life.

I think moviemakers are dramatists.

Selling is not a static activity.

The world is my country, the human race is my race. The spirit of man is my god, the future of man is my heaven.

Do nothing by halves which can be done by quarters.

There are two miracles in Canadian history. The first is the survival of French Canada, and the second is the survival of Canada.

The voice will always be heard, even if the song is very different.

I am too much a moralist at heart, and really want to preach at people in some acceptable form, rather than entertain them.

In listening mood she seemed to stand, The guardian Naiad of the strand.

Blogging is like work, but without coworkers thwarting you at every turn.

Remember Judy Garland? She retired 40 times.

The schoolmaster is termed, classically, Ludi Magister, because he deprives boys of their play.

Let us not forget that group of self-taught, outsider artists who never stepped foot in any classroom and cared less about even exhibiting, and yet ended up with an audience of avid admirers.

The past should remain firmly behind one. The present holds enough obstacles.

If you are strong enough, there are no precedents.

I paint with a language I can call my own... it takes a ruthless honesty with oneself. If one admires or is influenced by anyone else, one is not being true to oneself.

No amount of virtuosic skill and choice of subject matter can be a substitute for depth and poetry.

It is not life that's complicated, it's the struggle to guide and control life.

Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.

You don't really know what you're going to get until you're actually in Abbey Road. That's where I did all the music, in The Beatles' place.

The longer you verk here, diverse it gets.

The art which speaks to a universal audience concerns itself with the 'big' questions of life and death, and delivers its message with unrelenting and powerful emotion.

Being a salesman and an actor were not that dissimilar: It is a good lesson in covering up your feelings. No one wants to buy from someone who looks depressed.

Madonna is the ultimate pop star of all time, hands down.

I have directed all of my cabinet to work to prepare a transition plan for the incoming administration.

Beware the artist who's an intellectual also. The artist who doesn't fit.

Strange children should smile at each other and say, "Let's play.

I wore dresses all the time. I like to wear dresses.

There is a southern proverb - fine words butter no parsnips.

why shouldn't he? All life is just a progression toward and then a recession from one phrase-- 'I love you

The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.

We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

Finally I decided that since peasants were the largest segment of the world's population, it would be an honorable and worthy career to devote my life to the study of peasants and agriculture.

I tend to do golf charity things because it's much safer and you don't get much chance of a broken arm or leg.

Lightly from fair to fair he flew, And loved to plead, lament, and sue; Suit lightly won, and short-lived pain, For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.

What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.

As I'm getting older, I want to make sure every film I do really counts.

I just love the ideal of the surreal quality of putting it on a shoe.

A good teammate will correct somebody when they're doing something wrong. A friend might not say anything, a good teammate does.

Art springs from life but it doesn't mean we have to be tyrannized by it.

In a world of injustice there's going to be dreams of justice.

As a rule, I don't like to laugh at the misfortune of others. The exception to that rule is if it's really, really funny.