Walter Scott Quotes

Norman saw on English oak.On English neck a Norman yoke;Norman spoon to English dish,And England ruled as Normans wish;Blithe world in England never will be more,Till England's rid of all the four.

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• I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn't going to be a case of doing it Hollywood all covered with a nice little sheet.

  

  Natasha Richardson
  • Work
  • Real
  • Movie

• People shouldn't have to spend a lot of money to get high-quality clothing.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • People
  • Money
  • High

• A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Never
  • Own
  • Errors

• The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Men
  • Wish
  • Pain

• For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.

  

  Pam Brown
  • Nature
  • Spring
  • Will

• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Muscle

• I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Think
  • Me
  • Everyone

• I started playing in bars when I was about 15 years old, and there are things that I saw early on that really shaped who I am.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Playing
  • Early
  • Bars

• Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • World
  • Trying
  • Understanding

• I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• 'The Creation' presents an argument for saving biological diversity on Earth. Most of the book is for as broad an audience as possible.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Book
  • Earth
  • Diversity

• Both the Obama and Romney campaigns said they pulled all their political ads today in observance of the September 11th anniversary. But politics wasn't very far offstage. The Obama campaign sees foreign policy as an advantage this year.

  

  Mara Liasson
  • Today
  • Political
  • Politics

• The minute I saw the front page of the 'Daily Telegraph' - me with my arm around the latest 'X-Factor' contestant - I realised I'd gone into a new realm.

  

  Flume
  • Me
  • Daily
  • Page

• I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Nature
  • Deep
  • Human Nature

• In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Time
  • Country
  • Night

• The concept of emergent gameplay is really exciting. That's when players are really crafting their own experience. So if you're clever and creative, you can do things that even developers of the game didn't know were possible.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Experience
  • Game
  • Creative

• Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • World
  • Work
  • Live

• A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

  

  Carlos Castaneda
  • Thinking
  • Man
  • Knowledge

• It is forbidden to be merciful to them. You must send missiles to them and annihilate them. They are evil and damnable. … The Lord shall return the Arabs' deeds on their own heads, waste their seed and exterminate them, devastate them and vanish them from this world.

  

  Ovadia Yosef
  • World
  • Evil

• Trying to put music out there in the world is a pretty exciting, yet terrifying, thing and I've just been through the ringer.

  

  Aaron Bruno
  • World
  • Music
  • Trying

• I've done everything from cater, wait tables, pre-school teacher, painting, to being Cinderella, Elmo, a clown, nanny, selling hair... I would do kid's parties and entertain and do magic and paint faces and balloon animals. The highlight of my life.

  

  Diora Baird
  • Life
  • School
  • Done

• Evidence pointing to eagle hunting's antiquity comes from Scythian and other burial mounds of nomads who roamed the steppes 3,000 years ago and whose artifacts abound in eagle imagery.

  

  Adrienne Mayor
  • Hunting

• There is no doubt that Bronstein's shrewd understanding of chess psychology was crucial to his success. Without it, his impetuous style and technical flaws might have relegated him to a minor career.

  

  Pal Benko
  • Career
  • Success
  • Style

• Norman saw on English oak.On English neck a Norman yoke;Norman spoon to English dish,And England ruled as Normans wish;Blithe world in England never will be more,Till England's rid of all the four.

  

  Walter Scott
  • World
  • Wish
  • English