Walter Scott Quotes

To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.

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• I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite gratifying to play.

  

  Ian McDiarmid
  • Play
  • Easy
  • Smiling

• At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting: mathematics.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • College
  • Passion
  • Risk

• Also, an area that interests me – and it will probably take years to state what I mean – is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Democracy
  • Period
  • State

• The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Work
  • Art
  • Canvas

• I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.

  

  Banksy
  • Money
  • Art
  • Guy

• To make headway, improve your head.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Make
  • Head
  • Improve

• The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Movie
  • Wisdom
  • Gay

• Beauty is not just physical.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Beauty
  • Just
  • Physical

• Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Up
  • Together
  • Happy

• No history can be a faithful mirror. If it were, it would be as long and as dull as life itself. It must be a selection, and, being a selection, must inevitably be biased.

  

  T. E. Hulme
  • Life
  • Long
  • History

• You can get awful famous in this country in seven days.

  

  Gary Hart
  • Country
  • You
  • Famous

• Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Life
  • May
  • Nature

• I broke a lot of conventions. Look, I spent a long time as an actor. I spent a lot of time playing pretty ordinary arcs.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Time
  • Long
  • Pretty

• I'm not a violent person, but I've got a hard core streak and have a reputation about living dangerously.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Person
  • Living
  • Reputation

• I want to develop Katihar as an ideal district. That is my dream for my constituency.

  

  Tariq Anwar
  • Want
  • Dream
  • Ideal

• When I was about 12, I was studying Chinese and ballet with my brother, and one morning Jonathan said to me, 'I don't think I'm going to go to ballet class anymore,' and I looked at him and said, 'You know, I don't think I'm going to go to Chinese class anymore.'

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Me
  • Morning
  • Brother

• I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped were the abstract expressionists in the New York school.

  

  Vera Wang
  • School
  • Art
  • History

• I shall participate, I shall contribute, and in so doing, I will be the gainer.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Doing
  • Will
  • Shall

• Philosophers play with the word, like a child with a doll.... It does not mean that everything in life is relative.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Play
  • Everything

• A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived, which have afterwards, and, indeed, within a very short period, been found to be both possible and true.

  

  Catherine Crowe
  • Age
  • Impossible
  • Found

• It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Difficult
  • Guns
  • Stick

• Whether it is an attempt to bomb the New York City subway system, an attempt to bring down an airplane over Detroit, an attempt to set off a bomb in Times Square ... I think that gives us a sense of the breadth of the challenges that we face, and the kinds of things that our enemy is trying to do.

  

  Eric Holder
  • Enemy
  • Challenges
  • Airplane

• To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Everything
  • Impossible