Joanna Scott Quotes

In the ongoing celebration that is literature, we are asked to imagine ourselves as other selves, for better or worse.

Joanna Scott

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• I bought a girl roses once.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Girl
  • Once
  • Roses

• I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • Important
  • Learn
  • Mistakes

• I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Great
  • Depression
  • Obsessed

• With the Jews, the questions are always open; we're always questioning. I love that questioning tradition.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Love
  • Questions
  • Tradition

• I like a fresh face. I like clean skin. Fresh skin, cute color on the lip, cat eye, mascara, and I'm good to go!

  

  Becky G
  • Good
  • Eye
  • Color

• I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.

  

  B. B. King
  • Man
  • Myself
  • Guitar

• They say I am a regulator and I think it is just an effort not to comply with the decree. I do not do anything except what the decree requires me to do.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Effort
  • Decree
  • Regulator

• With comedy, it's really hard to tell if something's working on the page - you really need the actors to bring it alive. The scariest part is if people will laugh or not.

  

  Maggie Carey
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Laugh

• No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Power
  • Science
  • Politics

• Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Like
  • Always
  • Thought

• We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Happy

• I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Tennis

• In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they discovered that this doesn't work.

  

  Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
  • World
  • Work
  • Past

• I don't believe love goes away just because you're buried in a casket.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Believe
  • Love
  • For Him

• I don't really like politics, to be honest. But it's other people making decisions about my life and my country and my child's education... I wish we didn't have so much money in politics, but that's not the world we live in. If we don't play here, we forfeit. And I'm not willing to forfeit my rights.

  

  Laura Ricketts
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Well, you know, I - again, even in the context of BP, I wonder about this government's priorities. The federal government's top priority right now should be the cleanup. And BP certainly has done so many things wrong. They need to be held to account.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Done
  • Know
  • Government

• The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Life
  • Men
  • Poet

• If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't want to change to be something that I'm not for other people to like me.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • People
  • Bad
  • Want

• Conservatives like to insist that their judges are strict constructionists, giving the Constitution and statutes their precise meaning and no more, while judges like Ms. Sotomayor are activists. But there is no magic right way to interpret terms like 'free speech' or 'due process' - or potato chip.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Free
  • Giving
  • Magic

• People are famous for being famous and for nothing else. And good luck to them, because it lasts about a year and then they're nothing again.

  

  Brian Johnson
  • People
  • Good
  • Famous

• Lying and corruption are in the Iranian society in all sense of the world, and if you do research about married women, you see that a lot of them tell you they get a lot of enjoyment from breaking the rules of corruption, because just for the fact that they break the rules, it makes them oppose the system.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • World
  • Women
  • Society

• I tried to grow up. Honest. Didn’t quite happen. I guess I’m someone for whom youth still seems more real than the present, or the half century in between. And why not? I'm deeply underwhelmed by most contemporary art, literature, music, films, TV, the heinous little phones, money talk, real estate talk, all that stuff. The Internet, which at first seemed so fascinating, appears to be evolving into something even worse than TV, but we'll see.

  

  Donald Fagen Steely Dan
  • Literature
  • Stuff
  • Honest

• Everyone has a responsibility towards this larger family of man, but especially if you're privileged, that increases your responsibility.

  

  Susan Sarandon
  • Family
  • Responsibility
  • Privileged

• In the ongoing celebration that is literature, we are asked to imagine ourselves as other selves, for better or worse.

  

  Joanna Scott
  • Literature
  • Celebration