Scott Spencer Quotes
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Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.
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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
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I put Tabasco sauce over everything. Or I put it on pretty much anything that wouldn't taste gross - I mean, I wouldn't put it on salad, but I like it on fried chicken, nachos... a lot of stuff.
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Without my Johnson trademark mop of yellow hair, I think I would be nothing.
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Kids who don't have moms suffer a lifetime.
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I can do whatever I want.
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I read mails throughout the day but answer mails more in the morning and evening.
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What's so brave about being bald? I've not fought for my country or found the cure for cancer - I've just gone out without my hat on!
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I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.
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It's more fun if you can control things like lighting and make special effects in the darkroom.
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There are a whole host of psychological phenomenon humans have developed to protect ourselves from the sting of failure, from holding ourselves less accountable for our failures than we do other people, to letting our fear paralyze us and keep us from even trying.
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I really want to work for myself and build a business from nowhere.
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You basically only discover a new thing once.
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Directing is the ultimate way to bring together all the art forms I've been involved with over the years.
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I have the support of my parents and my teachers. They made it very possible for me to go to a school that is open and supportive of me being gone at times and pursuing acting. But school always comes first for me.
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I am keen to maintain very good relations and develop the relationship with the United States.
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I'm belligerent rather than ambitious.
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I did record a bunch of stuff, but the thing that usually stops me from doing that is that I'm a terrible singer. I made a bunch of instrumental music, and it feels really good, but just as a singer, I'm not good.
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In the nature of things, a person engaged in the flimsy business of expressing himself on paper is dependent on the large general privilege of being heard. Any intimation that this privilege may be revoked throws a writer into panic.
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I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.
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Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide impartially.
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One night a friend lent me a book of short stories by Franz Kafka. I went back to the pension where I was staying and began to read The Metamorphosis. The first line almost knocked me off the bed. I was so surprised. The first line reads, “As Gregor Samsa awoke that morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. . . .” When I read the line I thought to myself that I didn’t know anyone was allowed to write things like that. If I had known, I would have started writing a long time ago. So I immediately started writing short stories.
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On a ship thats made of paper, I would sail the seven seas. (Just to be with you)