Walter Scott Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Women are the first to jump on what is fashionable.
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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.
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I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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I didn't get at first put into a rehab facility; I got put in a adolescent psychiatric unit for my detox.
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I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.
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One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.
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The cobs were delivered to a big pile. We were one of the first to feed corn cobs to cattle.
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My first dunk was actually in sixth grade.
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First off, no one award-wise ever rewards comedy, which is... whatever. I don't care about that.
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Maybe 'America first' means also that you have to deal with America first.
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The first album I ever owned was 'A Star is Born.'
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I was in Charlotte, N.C., when they launched the NBA team there, the Charlotte Hornets. And the first guy to roll into town was Carolina native Michael Jordan.
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We have the British motor industry as a role model for what happens when you try to save an industrial dinosaur. Britain was the first country to industrialise and the first to de-industrialise. We should learn from this.
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My first interest in baseball is the welfare of baseball itself. My second is the Cincinnati Reds, and my third is Warren Giles.
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I wrote my first novel when my daughter was about six months old.
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If I recall correctly, I think I signed my first contract with Tor in 1983.
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Wisdom cannot prevent a fall, but may cushion it.
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Instead, we were given a publication called the Weekly Reader, which was like a newspaper for four-foot illiterates.
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What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.
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Oh, God, I would love to go and do a play someplace.
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O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
