M.M. Scott Quotes
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.
French culture takes ageing very seriously. There's much less ageism than in Anglo-Saxon countries.
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.
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.
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 think every bowl game is exciting, but when you get to play in a bowl game that represents a cause that the Cure Bowl represents, I think that's an honor.
Sexy is a girl who's comfortable with herself. Long legs are beautiful... and also a nice neck.
Rosemary felt that this swim would become the typical one of her life, the one that would always pop up in her memory at the mention of swimming.
She wouldn't let go of the letter. She took it into the tub with her and squeezed it up in a wet ball, and only let me leave it in the soap dish when she saw that it was coming to pieces like snow.
A stirring warmth flowed from her, as if her heart was trying to come out to you concealed in one of those breathless, thrilling words.
I guess if you want to know one single thing I'm about, it's that I'm against easy answers.
Dear, don't think of getting out of bed yet. I've always suspected that early rising in early life makes one nervous.
At fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon.
You really ought to read more books - you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.
What people get admired and appreciated for in community are their soft skills: their sense of humor and timing, their ability to listen, their courage and honesty, their capacity for empathy.
If we want to be heard we must speak in a language the listener can understand and on a level at which the listener is capable of operating.
You're not sorry to go, of course. With people like us our home is where we are not... No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.
The world is always curious, and people become valuable merely for their inaccessibility
good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handle with gloves.
There's a whole, that is a whole subgenre within martial arts cinema. The supernatural martial arts movie. Particularly within Asian cinema.
I wouldn't take anything away from Tampa Bay. We're in one of the toughest divisions there is.
I hope I haven't reached a pinnacle...I hope there's something more for me in baseball and in life.
I feel good. At this point, the only thing I'm trying to do is accumulate at-bats and get my work in, and so far that's what I'm doing.
People who copy what exists copy a point-in-time artifact, and if you are managing the process correctly you are already hard at work on the next thing.
The helpless ecstasy of loosing himself in her charm was a powerful opiate rather than a tonic.
Quantum mechanics is confusing and consciousness is confusing, so maybe they're the same.
There's no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don't feel it at all.
Evolution is not controversial in the field of science. It's controversial in the public sphere because public education is highly politicized.
I just keep my game plan the same and try to just go out there and be efficient and attack the strike zone.
Large corporations welcome innovation and individualism in the same way the dinosaurs welcomed large meteors.
I'm not a comic book guy. I've never been to Comic-Con. I don't know anything about that. It's a whole different world.
They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together.
The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.
History. Language. Passion. Custom. All these things determine what men say, think, and do. These are the hidden puppet-strings from which all men hang.
Where loyalty bound creatures together, they became something larger, something new and whole and inexplicable.
A life of total dedication to the truth also means a life of willingness to be personally challenged.
A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree, its authority is gone.
