M.M. Scott Quotes

We needed to become world-famous soon, while there was still that kind of world to be famous in.

humanity is a cancer on the body of the world

Dude, I just watched you climb up a f*cking building!-Lace

In terms of a "career," I never have long-term plans, and certainly don't want to spend several years, say, writing a "long" novel.

I’m not against thinking; I’m only against thinking that thinking on its own will get you out of a hole. Shovel also needed.

So what are those balloons for? In case you fall off your hoverboard?' -- Tally to Peris

Let me get this stright, Aya-Chan. You want me, a person who can't lie, to lie about the fact that I can't lie?" -Frizz mizuno

Life is a sweet mistake that happened when the world wasn't looking.

He turned to face her again, his late-pretty composure crumbling. "But you're..." "Pretty? Think again." She smiled. "I'm Tally Youngbood. My mind is very ugly. And I'm taking your car.

Around the outskirts of the city, cut off from town by the black oval of the river, everything was in darkness. Everyone ugly was in bed by now.

Never bored on a hoverboard.

Frighteningly Beautiful, Dangerously Strong, Breathtakingly Fast. Face it Tally-wa you're special.

Listen, you bubblehead-up-until-five-minutes-ago.

My hope is next year Terry and I can work out a contract. I have no problem with the Minnesota Twins.

Their reasons don't mean anything unless I have a choice.

And you know, these things don't last forever.' I know, Mandy. Nothing does.' That's the spirit.

She wasn't here to gawk. She was an infiltrator, a sneak, an ugly. And she had a mission.

And over all those sleepy weeks, the dream always ended the same way, with the dragon coming for the princess saying the same words every time.... "Face it, Tally-wa, you're Special.

My philosophy is that every phone conversation has a loser.

Your personality - the real you inside - was the price of beauty.

People say what we're doing is holding out when in reality the teams are trying to crush the draft market because they don't want to pay fair market value.

Sometimes it felt like her life was a series of falls from ever-greater heights.

What happens when perfection isn't good enough?

Maybe they didn't want you to realize that every civilization has its weakness. There's always one thing we depend on. And if someone takes it away all that's left is some story in a history class.

It's safe to assume that no matter where you stand, someone would be happy to be in your shoes, just as you'd be happy to be in someone else's.

Anyone can criticize or accept praise, but initiating a positive exchange is a hallmark of a difference maker.

Sometimes, the hardest thing was doing nothing.

He and I have this... personality conflict. Namely, I think he should get a new one.

The way you find the answers to your problems will be unique to you.

To everyone who loves a long-secret romance, revealed at last.

It's rare for people to genuinely try to understand what others are trying to say.

This is one big problem with working remotely: no one believes you have a job at all.

I don’t want to be perfect. I want to be useful, I want to be good, and I want to sound like myself. Trying to be perfect gets in the way of all three.

History can't give attention to what's been lost, hidden, or deliberately buried; it is mostly a telling of success, not the partial failures that enabled success.

Good public speaking is based on good private thinking

Where did you get that idea for a nose? - Frizz Mizuno

You young things are too easily persuaded by the touch of lips.

Wow," came a familiar voice, "Hypochondriac killed the cat." -Dess

Apparently textbooks were an endangered species here in Bixby, Oklahoma.

But you know what? It's not my behavior I'm worried about anymore. It's yours.

What about a hoverboard?" "It's waiting on the roof, of course." Dr. Cable snorted. "What is it about you miscreants and those things?

Oh, this beast? It's...perspicacious loris. 'Perspicacious' meaning 'wise or canny'." "Get stuffed," Bovril said, then giggled. "And it insults people," Telsa said. "How peculiar.

Nature was tough, it could be dangerous, but unlike Dr. Cable or shay, or peris-unlike people in general-it made sense. The problems it threw at you could be solved rationally.

I make it a policy never to appear surprised" - Dr Barlow

Advertising, if it is any good, should help to confirm what already is, not what should be.

Do you love him?" Deryn swallowed, then pointed at the screen. "He makes me feel like that. Like flying.

But it's always taking a risk, when you ... kiss someone new.

Suddenly a pair of searchlights lanced out from the frigate. They swept across the dark expanse - bright knives slicing the night into pieces.

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Emperors are vain and useless things.