M.M. Scott Quotes

If poor people can vote, one of the main things they vote for is to redistribute money to themselves.

I was raised in a climate where I believed in God because I was afraid of going to hell - and I didn't think that was the right way to fall in love with somebody.

Love is too large, too deep ever to be truly understood or measured or limited within the framework of words.

I was emotionally and spiritually dried up, so I was just searching for God.

The only real security in life lies in relishing life's insecurity.

By the '40s, Sam Goldwyn is a very serious man. By the '50s, he's the dean of American producers. To the end, he was Hollywood's gray eminence.

The world of rumor and gossip is like a privileged world with which a social scientist or an anthropologist can take the temperature of popular aspirations.

I've realised that I am who I am and that is it. Like it or lump it. I'm not around to please anyone any more, and it's a huge relief.

I can't move back to England. My home is in France now. I'd love to but I can't. My family's all there now.

French culture takes ageing very seriously. There's much less ageism than in Anglo-Saxon countries.

I like to look on the bright side: Every day I beat my own previous record for number of consecutive days I've stayed alive.

Failure is where success likes to hide in plain sight.

No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot.

I owe it to my children to secure their future.

For men, after a certain age, it gets hard to make new friends.

I have been the subject of ridicule. People talk about me and they don't know me and this is an opportunity to tell my story ... to have my voice and to set the record straight.

Any man can fart in a closed room and say that he commands the wind

Science doesn't care, by and large, what the answers are. It's only interested in getting the right answer. And journalism should be very much that way.

They were black like a lizard's and very large and, like the eyes of a lizard, could sometimes look sleepy.

You can't ascribe great cosmic significance to a simple earthly event. Coincidence, that's all anything ever is, nothing more than coincidence...

I can't figure the stock market out. I think it's wacky. I have done well with a long-term strategy and will continue being a long-term investor.

When Steve Ballmer calls me wacko, I consider that a compliment.

I had fun to be a little bit of a nerd.

I got more mail than anybody on the history of The Today Show, but half of it was to get me off the air.

I'm a fan of horror movies that have really good stories.

My dad was an engineer and so I had this picture of science and technology and pursuits of the mind as being more impressive than artistic pursuits, which I saw a as kind of frivolous.

I don't rhyme right now, but I may ten years from now.

Difficult" and "impossible" are cousins often mistaken for one another, with very little in common." (Locke Lamora to Requin)

No libraries, no progress.

The ancestors of printed comics drew, painted and carved their time-paths from beginning to end, without interruption, ... the infinite canvas.

What kind of knife is this?” Locke held a rounded buttering utensil up for Chains’ inspection. “It’s all wrong. You couldn’t kill anyone with this.

I have always said that the best training to be a TV newsman or anybody on television is to do a children's show because you are oblivious to the fact that there is a camera there.

From the east comes the sun, bringing a new and unspoiled day.

There are no mistakes, only lessons.

He solved at a stroke the great question of the direction of nerve-currents in their travel through brain and spinal cord.

And bring me a hard copy of the Internet so I can do some serious surfing.

I think people tend to live, whether they like it or not, influenced by what's next door to them.

In case the rest of you missed it, the inspirational speech was: 'If you work hard, you can achieve great things. And then you die'.

I'm surrendering myself to the realities of the Internet.

Neither in what it gives, nor in what it does not give, nor in the mode of presentation, must the unclouded face of truth suffer wrong. Comment is free, but facts are sacred.

These days, you have to have a gimmick to do the weather. You have to have an act.

I dont believe it wins championships. (It) gets you to the playoffs.

People are so conditioned to take sides that a balanced analysis looks to them like hatred.

Life too is precious to waste - to spend on anything but the best.

But the past couple of days I’ve missed you so much it’s felt like missing you is all I am.

The successful editor is one who is constantly finding newwriters, nurturing their talents, and publishing them with critical and financial success.

You can knock down kingdoms on a whim. What you need is someone to make sure you don't get hit by a carriage when you cross the street.

I want to keep everything balanced. That's why it's important not to have too much fanfare.

Little Alice, all hollowed out, so easy to smash into a million little pieces.

I'm not interested in being commodified. I'm not into being sold. I'm not a slave.