Walter Scott Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
-
I have never been asked to be in a movie musical. Other than 'Yentl,' which I didn't sing in.
-
You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
-
Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.
-
I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.
-
As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
-
I don't know that I'll ever get to make my ideal film, because Frank Capra is dead.
-
I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomorrow and say 'I want to be a chef,' and just pour myself into that.
-
I eat a lot of chocolate.
-
You trivialize the idea of competition totally, then there's no point in having the competition in the first place, and everybody is getting a trophy.
-
There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.
-
Selectors can't please everyone, but I am OK if they are working for the benefit of Indian cricket. It's an administrative decision to appoint a selection committee, and I would like to let them do their job.
-
Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.
-
If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
-
People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
-
As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
-
Because of my crazy work schedule, I have become something of a master at changing my clothes while driving. The men driving next to me love it.
-
Guys usually know immediately that I'm high-maintenance.
-
Jesus said that we should render to the state what properly belongs to the state, and though he had taxes in mind, we might reasonably infer that giving the state the job of punishing wrongdoers is one way of giving the state its due.
-
Girls aren't very good at keeping maps in their brains", said Edmund, "That's because we've got something in them", replied Lucy.
-
The hardest fight a man has to fight is to live in a world where every single day someone is trying to make you someone you do not want to be--
-
There's a time where people were out holding posters in protest outside shows I was doing, and thankfully, we've moved past that. And a lot of country stations wouldn't play me. They were more conservative than I was.
-
Love leaped out in front of us like a murderer in an alley leaping out of nowhere, and struck us both at once. As lightning strikes, as a Finnish knife strikes! She, by the way, insisted afterwards that it wasn't so, that we had, of course, loved each other for a long, long time, without knowing each other, never having seen each other.
-
There's a gude time coming.
