Nell Scovell (Helen Vivian Scovell) Quotes

Unfortunately, my system for tracking down funny female writers isn't methodical. It's mainly based on word-of-mouth, which can cast a limited net.

Nell Scovell

• Funny

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• The first movie I really clicked with was 'Die Hard' when I was 6 years old, which is crazy that I was watching it that young. That was the one that made me want to become an actor.

  

  Jack Reynor
  • Movie
  • Me
  • Die

• I don't think anyone feels older. You have this infinity inside you that feels like it could go on forever.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Think
  • Forever
  • Inside

• When I do retire, I will miss the trips with the team, the jokes with my teammates, the habits: having breakfast with them, playing with them, all the little things.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Team
  • Breakfast
  • Habits

• Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Future
  • Past
  • Wisdom

• My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Mind
  • Opinion
  • Strength

• Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay.

  

  Samora Machel
  • Reality
  • Performance

• I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Writing
  • Voice
  • Because

• I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • Think
  • Always
  • Luck

• Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Time
  • Me
  • Stage

• I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Love
  • Freedom
  • Running

• O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?

  

  Ada Cambridge
  • Life
  • Fire
  • Wind

• It's funny, though, speaking of fathers and sons, because me and John Goodman played father and son, like, five or six years ago in the film 'Death Sentence,' and I got back with him again in 'Inside Llewyn Davis.'

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Father
  • Death
  • Funny

• A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.

  

  Iain Glen
  • Experience
  • London
  • Bicycle

• I use debit cards for everyday purchases, as I don't believe in credit cards. But this has caused problems, especially with American touring, because I refuse to have a credit card - and in America you can't pay for anything on a debit card.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Believe
  • American
  • America

• The men and women who occupied the east coast of North America between 1607 and 1800 have been more closely scrutinized than any other collection of people in American history.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• The only rule is don't be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Life
  • Cute
  • Life Is Too Short

• One of the great things about music is that it has the capability of time travel - you smell a certain smell in the room and it takes you back to your childhood. I feel like music is able to do that, and it happens to me all the time.

  

  M. Ward
  • Time
  • Great
  • Music

• I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.

  

  Edmund White
  • Point
  • Novels
  • Seven

• I used to go in for Disney auditions, and they'd tell me, 'You're cute and nice but just not funny.'

  

  Gattlin Griffith
  • Funny
  • Me
  • Nice

• Now the point of comedy is not just looking funny, it's use of language. We have at our disposal a great language... and the imaginative, creative use of that language can be at the service of humour.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Great
  • Funny
  • Comedy

• I didn't even recall being on the DB sessions until Herbie Flowers reminded me a couple of years ago.

  

  Jim Sullivan
  • Couple

• I knelt by the design. Yes, there was the sun rising. But the white form I had always thought to be a cloud was a bear. I could see it now, upside down. White bear, isbjorn, stood for north. Father had not been able to help himself. The truth was there, too. Truth and lie, side by side.

  

  Edith Pattou
  • Truth
  • Help
  • Design

• Unfortunately, my system for tracking down funny female writers isn't methodical. It's mainly based on word-of-mouth, which can cast a limited net.

  

  Nell Scovell
  • Funny