Scott Ian Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
It is something where I think that people need to take a step back and realize how bad these things we are doing really are for our ears. But nobody really thinks about it. We're playing shows every night with music in our ears. That's just the industry.
-
For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.
-
Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
-
To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
-
Going out at night and having a fabulous social life takes a lot out of you, and I don't know if I have that much to give, honestly. I would rather give that time to my kids or spend that time reading a book or watching a film. I am selfish and lazy.
-
Modern theory is about objects lower than man; even stars, being common things, are lower than man.
-
It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.
-
My creativity all comes from the same place. I wear one very comfortable, large hat.
-
Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
-
I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
-
I've been in some bad TV shows and suffered through so much poor writing.
-
I've been very lucky.
-
All the things that are in the past are in the past.
-
I'm a very lucky girl.
-
My folks are in Jersey. And I have a lot of friends and other family there. So, I try to visit as much as possible.
-
On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
-
Empty values statements create cynical and dispirited employees, alienate customers, and undermine managerial credibility.
-
For most of my 20s, I looked like I was 12. Now that I'm pushing 40, I guess I look closer to... 15? It must be my macrobiotic diet. Oh, wait, except that I don't have one of those.
-
There are lots of women tennis players, for instance, but because not many of them seem to have much personality, they're interchangeable. You don't have a feeling about them.
-
Congress has a right and a need to know what this proposed deal would mean for terminal operations and security at our ports. Even if they come later than we would have liked, we must get the facts.
-
I would never jeopardize classified information. I served my country well and loyally, and I had to sue the C.I.A. on First Amendment grounds.
-
People assume NFL cheerleaders are within some vague sniffing distance of the good life, but a Ben-Gal is paid seventy-five bucks per game. That is correct: seventy-five bucks for each of ten home games. The grand cash total per season does not keep most of them flush in hair spray, let alone gas money to and from practice.
-
The purpose of art ... is not to reflect life but to organize it, to build it.
-
Music and songs are written at different periods of time, at different times in your life. They reflect the feelings you have and to be honest, I quite like having positive emotions.
