M.M. Scott Quotes

So I want to ask you a hypothetical question. My favorite kind. Next to rhetorical ones. I can nap equally well through either kind.

Out of the total of 11 movies, I got slammed.

Wine gave a sort of gallantry to their own failure.

My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.

Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.

It quickly becomes apparent that in the gray area between jazz, R&B and soul, Tony Adamo is one of the top voices.

I just try to touch people's hearts in a way through skating, so they're not just witnessing a performance, they're feeling a performance and they're a part of it.

In the world of music, the audience is not just fans of music; they're fans of many things.

I think everyone on the planet is a fan of a painting because everyone is a fan of visual stimulation, but I've had freedom in the world [of painting] because I've kept it to myself.

If you lay a hand on me I'll ram your testicles so far up inside your abdomen it'll take a heart surgeon to get them out.

I make a movie because it's something that inspires me.

Actually, I've only been involved with one girl I worked with. It was Alyssa Milano. We didn't actually have an onscreen kiss - we're about to but it gets broken up.

One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a war.

Woe to the youth whom Fancy gains, Winning from Reason's hand the reins, Pity and woe! for such a mind Is soft contemplative, and kind.

I guess I hit a point while I was in college when I realized I would have to do something with my life!

There are so many people I would love to work with, like Al Pacino, Paul Newman, Gary Oldman - maybe Tom Cruise. I wanna play his brother in something - so call my agent!

I was always enamored with TV shows and movies. But you didn't grow up in my town and turn into an actor.

Each movement is only learned after you've perfected the one before it.

I'm not planning a career change - not unless they need someone who constantly falls on the ice and is out of breath all the time.

When you're expected to win and you have the press saying that you are going to win the Olympic gold medal, and you're the only sure thing in the Olympics, it can undermine your confidence.

Human beings are free except when humanity needs them.

Pain is always preferable to numbness.

Ideally, people find mates with whom they can express both their masculine and feminine sides.

Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender.

The great thing about show business is that there's no mandatory retirement age

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day.

Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

When I marry, it will be to a faithful returned missionary in the Temple.

No missionary can determine the lasting effects of his or her labors.

When you turn professional, you become an entertainer, and like every other entertainer, you don't want to get a bad review.

The searing light of morning Asks unwelcome questions, Fragile hopes soon blistered by daylight.

Sense how Even the smooth stones ache With stories of their own In the shuddering light of day.

Love is lust made meaningful. Hope is hunger made human.

The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe.

I kissed him once," she whispered. "Well done. What did he do?" "Um..." Deryn sighed. "He woke up.

The reason I started writing movies was because I kept getting parts that I just kind of stepped into. I didn't have to do a lot of work and I ended up getting sort of bored.

I want to get married, but I'm always tortured in relationships.

Eliminating the death penalty...will not hinder the prosecutorial capacity to seek, or the court's ability to impose, 'life without parole' sentences for serious, heinous crimes and criminals.

Isn't Hollywood a dump-in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the human spirit at a new low of debasement.

But with writing, all you need is a pad of paper.

What you do, is you gradually become more and more experienced, and more and more realistic about dramatic tolerance, i.e. about how long the play should be.

As system virtualization becomes mainstream, IT managers will find a greater need for disk imaging for disaster recovery and systems deployment,.

I find that when you see somebody in the tabloids all the time, you have no desire to see them in movies.

There are 30 great jobs in the NBA, and I've got one of them.

I was nine-years-old when I first put on skates.

Set aside those things that don't really matter and do something with eternal consequences.

I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.

I can’t think of a more philosophical time in a person’s life than when they are children. It’s the one time when ideas are really beautiful and amazing and all-encompassing. They are life.

he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass.

I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games; I won a gold medal.