Walter Scott Quotes

The way was long, the wind was cold,The Minstrel was infirm and old;His withered cheek, and tresses gray,Seemed to have known a better day.

Walter Scott

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• I worked with Lukas Haas a long time ago, when he was younger, and he was wonderful.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Time
  • Long
  • Long Time

• If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that didn't exist an hour ago. Now it exists and it might exist for a long time. There's something empowering about that.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Time
  • Long
  • Song

• I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.

  

  H. R. Giger
  • Work
  • Art
  • Elegance

• What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Life
  • Death
  • Dark

• I guess my favorite artists are The White Stripes or Tom Waits. The more theatrical the music is, the more I get into it. I also like the quieter folk music, that kind of old-school rockabilly or country. I'm not really picky when it comes to music, as long as it's honest.

  

  Landon Liboiron
  • Music
  • Long
  • Country

• I have very long, wild hair, a suntan and wear knee high boots and ignore all the rules about what you should or shouldn't wear at whatever age.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Long
  • High
  • Age

• I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.

  

  J. A. Jance
  • Time
  • Long
  • Writing

• I'm so damn boring. I like reading and writing and making coffee. And walking. Barry Jenkins likes long walks.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Reading

• Psychotherapy works, and some types of therapy have been shown to be much more effective than antidepressants over the long run.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • Long
  • Run
  • Therapy

• The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Long
  • Today
  • Moral

• Whether it is salt farmers in India embracing solar power or wind companies creating tens of thousands of jobs in America, people are providing a vision for the clean energy future.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • People
  • Power
  • America

• You can drive an SUV, but there's a balance. If you do that, maybe use energy-efficient light bulbs at home or just be conscious of switching off lights. If you can afford to drive an SUV, maybe you can afford to make a donation to a wind farm or plant some trees. It's all about balance.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Home
  • Energy
  • Light

• I've had a couple of long relationships. And I've had a couple of shorter relationships.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • Long
  • Couple
  • Relationships

• When I go down the ice, I feel it, the wind in the side of my hair, and then I got the party in the back.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Party
  • Hair
  • Wind

• I've been doing this career for a really long time, but there was not a lot of reason, at the time when I wrote 'Fight Song,' to believe that I should keep going.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Long

• I never worried about money, except that I knew that all I had to worry about was golf. As long as I could play, I was going to make money.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Long
  • Money
  • Worry

• I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Life
  • Great
  • Long

• Playing for England was one long roller-coaster: some ups and downs, but also quite a few moments when you're not really sure if you're enjoying the ride.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Long
  • Moments
  • Ride

• Like many of his fellow skyjackers, 49-year-old Arthur Gates Barkley was motivated by a complicated grievance against the federal government. In 1963, the World War II veteran had been fired as a truck driver for a bakery, after one of his supervisors accused him of harassment.

  

  Brendan I. Koerner
  • World
  • War
  • Motivated

• I like you and your book, ingenious Hone!In whose capacious all-embracing leavesThe very marrow of tradition 's shown;And all that history, much that fiction weaves.

  

  Charles Lamb
  • Book
  • History

• I loved playing the stuff we did in the Byrds. It was a good band. I was lucky to be in it.

  

  Chris Hillman The Byrds
  • Good
  • Band

• So now I feel I'm lucky in the respect that I can sort of pick a little more carefully, which is tricky because as a black actress, there aren't that many roles to pick from.

  

  Rachel True
  • Black
  • Respect
  • Lucky

• I believe that the interior life is the same for all of us. And because they're steeped in faith, Irish-American Catholics are a people who have a language for the examined life.

  

  Alice McDermott
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• The way was long, the wind was cold,The Minstrel was infirm and old;His withered cheek, and tresses gray,Seemed to have known a better day.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Long
  • Cold
  • Wind