Paul Scott Quotes

Deny people something they want, over a longish period, and they naturally start disagreeing about precisely what it is they do want.

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• The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.

  

  Larry King
  • Life
  • Business
  • Royal

• This Islam business kidnapped me.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Business
  • Me
  • Islam

• When it comes down to music, I have no balance. I am 100 percent. It is like full throttle. Five hundred miles an hour.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Balance

• Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Love
  • Hope
  • Courage

• And it really is a good feeling to get up there and make that sound. I'm not stuck in a time warp, because I can use as many of the old songs as I want to, just the favorites.

  

  Dan Hicks
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• People either think I'm this totally savage, idiot-savant genius guy who's lucked out or they think I'm a super-manipulative crafty businessman, this kind of MBA guy who's spotted a gap in the market and knows how to create a product for it. It's flattering, but I've not got that much of a gameplan.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Think
  • Guy

• You reach a certain age, and you realize, 'Wow: there are younger people doing this better than I can, and don't leave me out - I don't want to be left behind. I want to do it, too. Where are you going? I want to be part of it.'

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Age
  • Me

• I do believe, whenever this is all said and done, we won't talk about Mickey Gall, the guy that beat CM Punk; we'll just talk about Mickey Gall, the guy who is a top 10 fighter, a good welterweight or maybe a great welterweight.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Good
  • Great
  • Believe

• Dovea in memoria avere il signor mio,Che l'oro e 'l premio ogni durezza inchina;Ma, quando bisognò, l'ebbe in oblio,Ed ei si procacciò la sua ruina.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• What physics tells us is that everything comes down to geometry and the interactions of elementary particles. And things can happen only if these interactions are perfectly balanced.

  

  Antony Garrett Lisi

• I'm still too hungry for whatever comes next.

  

  Colin Morgan

• I love someone with something to prove.

  

  Emily Weiss

• When we all start to wake up and realize that our comforts are fleeting, and more money is never going to save this world, maybe, just maybe, will we be able to return back to the grace of America's principal values.

  

  Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony
  • Up
  • World
  • Money

• I'm developing a physiological theory of growth and oxygen requirement. If it's well-understood how fish require oxygen to grow, then we can understand how to deal with the impact of global warming.

  

  Daniel Pauly
  • Growth

• And, obviously as a, as one who likes to travel around myself a lot, I think the Earth is a beautiful place. And, I'm looking forward to some new perspectives.

  

  Duane G. Carey
  • Beautiful
  • Earth
  • Travel

• I don't hear record companies coming up with any good ideas or suggestions. Historically, if it ain't their idea, it ain't no good, so you got that to contend with.

  

  Levon Helm
  • Up
  • Good

• Any new producer starting up is to get investors' confidence. Investors are still very very wary of anything to do with the arts world.

  

  Ann Macbeth
  • Up
  • World
  • Confidence

• I'm not responsible enough to have puppies.

  

  Logan Marshall-Green

• I find that it takes a lot of years of living, and many more of reckoning, to come up with one worthwhile paragraph. And when a deadline looms, prayer doesn't hurt, either.

  

  Carmen Agra Deedy
  • Up
  • Hurt
  • Prayer

• The question is the morning after. What sort of Iraq do we wake up to after the bombing? What happens in the region? What impact could it have? These are questions leaders I have spoken to have posed.

  

  Kofi Annan
  • Up
  • Question
  • Morning

• I love to look at physically beautiful people, and obviously others do, too. But there's such a narrow definition of what that is; the people who are my friends in life, the more I get to know them over the years, the more beautiful they are to me.

  

  Holly Hunter
  • People
  • Life
  • Friends

• As long as people overlook matters, then inferiors can, without any fear, lead an easy and peaceful life.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • People
  • Life
  • Long

• I think the most important is when I was young, I learnt martial arts; that is my special key.

  

  Jet Li
  • Important

• Deny people something they want, over a longish period, and they naturally start disagreeing about precisely what it is they do want.

  

  Paul Scott
  • People
  • Want
  • Period