Scott Adams Quotes

I was busier than a beaver in a coffee lake.

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• Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Dark
  • Door
  • Shadow

• I had an agent in Salt Lake City, but acting was more like a hobby.

  

  Patrick Fugit
  • City
  • Acting
  • Lake

• Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Time
  • Lake
  • Improve

• The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went away across it, so far that you could not see where they went; they ended in nothing at all.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Sky
  • White
  • Lake

• Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Truth
  • Walk
  • Lake

• There was a lake beneath me, but the big, heavy parachute which had to be opened two miles above the ground couldn't be steered. My first thought was, 'Lord, they send just one woman into space, and she has to end up in the water.'

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Space
  • Water
  • Woman

• By the end of 'Swan Lake,' you know how there's all the corps on stage, and she keeps running in the back, doing arms? You can't feel your arms. You're just like, 'Ow.'

  

  Carla Korbes
  • She
  • Know
  • Running

• L.A. is great, but it's a completely different beast. I go back to Minnesota, and I borrow a bike from my neighbor and go around Lake Harriet saying 'Hi' to people. Some of that is missing in L.A.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • People
  • Great
  • Different

• For me, emotion comes first. If I have to change a scene, invent a scene, change dialogue, or put Graff by the lake in order to feel that dynamic, and the end results feels like 'Ender's Game,' then hopefully it works.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Game
  • Change
  • End

• Being surrounded by hockey, I got forced into it as a kid. I started skating when I was 4 and had a rink only 10 minutes from my home. In my town, we had one outdoor rink and one indoor rink, so you could skate all year long. I lived by a lake, too, so we did a lot of skating on the lake.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • Long
  • Home
  • Hockey

• You cannot dance an arabesque in 'Swan Lake' and 'Nutcracker' the same way.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Dance
  • Same
  • Lake

• If she but smile, the crystal calm shall break In music, sweeter than it ever gave, As when a breeze breathes o'er some sleeping lake, And laughs in every wave.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Music
  • She
  • Smile

• I went to Salt Lake City and the Mormons tried to convert me, but when I found they forbade tea and tobacco I thought it was no religion for me.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • City
  • Tea
  • Lake

• Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake; it is a pond.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Music
  • Ocean
  • Lake

• Just a warning: If you're a bunch of sexy teenagers at a lake where other sexy teenagers were killed 30 years ago, leave! The guy in the forest with a hockey mask... maybe doesn't play hockey.

  

  Craig Ferguson
  • Guy
  • Sexy
  • Hockey

• The truth is, I can never die. For I will be in everything and see you in everything and watch over you. I am your reaction in the water of a mountain lake.

  

  Klaus Kinski
  • Truth
  • Die
  • Water

• I like characters who have two different things going on, whether it is Robin from 'Top Of The Lake' having that strength juxtaposed with the vulnerability and being in pain, or whether it is Peggy from 'Mad Men' with her naivety and her sort of idiocy at times, combined with her intelligence and courage really to do what she did at that time.

  

  Elisabeth Moss
  • Time
  • Men
  • Different

• 'Top Of The Lake' is a great story with a beginning, and a middle and an end, about darkness - it's like the heart of darkness. And everybody has got one. When I was reading it, I couldn't put it down, and I wanted to know what was going to happen next.

  

  Holly Hunter
  • Great
  • Heart
  • Reading

• It's funny: I don't listen to too much rap. I don't listen to too much older hip-hop. If I do, it's Ja Rule.

  

  Kehlani
  • Funny
  • Rap

• I was 15 on American Idol, and everybody had something to say. It was like I had my really awkward phase on national television, you know?

  

  Lauren Alaina
  • American

• Having, First, gained all you can, and, Secondly saved all you can, Then give all you can.

  

  John Wesley

• The Hamptons are usually filled with what I had hoped to leave behind in New York City.

  

  Mario Batali
  • City

• What captivity has been to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish. For us, the romance of our native land begins only after we have left home; it is really only with other people that we become Irishmen.

  

  Peter Ackroyd
  • People
  • Home
  • Irish

• I was busier than a beaver in a coffee lake.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Lake
  • Beavers
  • Busier