Scott McClellan Quotes

It's no coincidence that Superman's parents are Joseph and Martha Kent.

Scott McClellan

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• I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!

  

  Gary Numan
  • People
  • Good
  • Car

• The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry.

  

  Edmund White
  • Up
  • Good
  • Friends

• The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.

  

  L. Sprague de Camp
  • Good
  • Work
  • Long

• Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Building
  • Bridges
  • Walls

• Being the vice-captain, you see a lot of things on the field. You have to try and help the captain as much as you can and lead by example on the field. Small things like getting a run-out or taking a catch makes the other boys try and lift their standards. So yes, I do have an important role, even if I'm not captain.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • Important
  • Help
  • Small

• I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Great
  • Political
  • Change

• To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.

  

  Yannick Noah
  • Part
  • Taxes
  • Unbearable

• I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • House
  • Paris
  • Now

• I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much.

  

  Pat Travers
  • Marriage
  • Too Much
  • Much

• Try paying the bills with love. The idea I am trying to espouse is that you can have both love and money, and be rich and generous.

  

  T. Harv Eker
  • Money
  • Love
  • Rich

• I support gay unions. I think the government should get out of the marriage business completely - leave marriages to the churches. And grant civil unions to gay couples, grant civil unions to a man and woman.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Business
  • Man
  • Support

• The joy of YouTube is that you can create content about anything you feel passionate about, however silly the subject matter.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • You
  • Joy
  • Silly

• All of Hollywood was convinced that 'Gone with the Wind' would be a colossal disaster and rather hoped it would be.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Wind
  • Hollywood
  • Disaster

• All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Together
  • Dream
  • Dreams

• Nowadays in pop, there's not a lot of men that are singing big and loud and high - it's not as common as it once was.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Men
  • High
  • Singing

• I'm often stunned when I come up over Mulholland, and I'm looking down at the Valley, and I can see for thirty miles; I can see the mountains, or all the way to the ocean.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Up
  • Ocean
  • Down

• If you are going to do something truly innovative, you have to be someone who does not value social approval. You can't need social approval to go forward. Otherwise, how would you ever do the thing that you are doing?

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Value
  • Doing
  • Need

• I adore burgers. I know they are bad for me, and only technically a sandwich, but a well made burger, juicy and hot off the grill, is wonderful!

  

  Faith Hunter
  • Bad
  • Know
  • Me

• I generally don't like to talk too much about the character unless I feel stuck or in some trouble.

  

  Katherine Waterston
  • Character

• I do as much as I can. I even drive through the chase scenes several times to make sure the details are right.

  

  Jeff Lindsay

• I always commit myself to the teams I play for and always want to win. I hate losing. It's just that, at times, I go about things the wrong way, and that created problems.

  

  Diego Costa
  • Hate

• It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active.

  

  John Philpot Curran
  • Fate

• We need not be intimidated by the wine snob because we know that, in the last analysis, he is only putting on a front. He may know more than we do, but how little he knows in comparison with what there is to know Wine, a hobby as fascinating and as human as one can find. One of the most fascinating aspects of the wine-hobby is the extent to which you learn all the time.

  

  Alec Waugh
  • Time
  • May
  • Wine

• It's no coincidence that Superman's parents are Joseph and Martha Kent.

  

  Scott McClellan
  • Parents
  • Coincidence