Scott Spencer Quotes

Everything creepy and Southern isn't Faulknerian, just like everything annoying isn't Kafkaesque.

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• I read part of it all the way through.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Way
  • Funny
  • Through

• Until you've been to Cannes, it's hard to describe to someone the magnitude of that festival.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • You
  • Someone
  • Been

• I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Thinking
  • Day
  • Study

• White sharks and tuna travel for thousands of miles before returning to the same hot spot just as salmon do when they return to the same stream. These journeys are the marine equivalent of wildebeest migrations that take place on the Serengeti plain in Africa.

  

  Barbara Block
  • Travel
  • White
  • Marine

• November is auspicious in so many parts of the country: the rice harvest is already in, the weather starts to cool, and the festive glow which precedes Christmas has began to brighten the landscape.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Country
  • Cool
  • Christmas

• I envision a day when a businesswoman will be having lunch, and then her phone will ring. When she opens it up, she will see an image of the latest Marc Jacobs coat that just arrived in stock. With a click of a button, she can purchase it and then find it waiting for her when she gets back to her office.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Waiting
  • Lunch
  • Coat

• Some of my clothes are things that we'd play dress up with when we were little, and it's funny that now I'm wearing it, like, as an everyday thing. But if I say 'vintage' or 'thrifted' on the blog, there's this community of fashion bloggers, and I've become sort of tight with some of them, and we, like, just send each other packages.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Up
  • Funny
  • Community

• Once I went to bed in Orlando and I woke up in Atlanta. I have no idea how that happened.

  

  AJ McLean
  • Up
  • Idea
  • Bed

• What kind of people would be able to rationalize better than other people? Better storytellers, right? Creative people, right? Because if you're creative, you find more ways to cheat and still yourself a story about why this is okay.

  

  Dan Ariely
  • People
  • Why
  • Yourself

• Most of the well-known American feminists of the 19th century did not come out against the institution of marriage.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • American
  • Marriage
  • Come

• She's got a rum job, but she knows how to do it, and to have a job and know how to do it is one of the best things in this life. And if only she stops hankering after Cambridge...

  

  Arthur Ransome
  • Life
  • Job
  • Cambridge

• There's a certain way you stand to give yourself authority, which gives you the texture for the part. I chose that my character hadn't been married, he'd worked his way up the chain of command. For a small cameo role, I gave it a lot of thought.

  

  Mark Goddard
  • Up
  • Character
  • Small

• Politically I did not like Mr. Lincoln, for in him I saw the destroyer.

  

  Belle Boyd

• That's the great thing about 'Corrie': it is an ensemble cast, and it didn't rest on one person's shoulders by any means.

  

  Katherine Kelly
  • Great
  • Rest

• 'Cosmopolitan' used to publish five covers across the U.S. so that if one was unpopular, it wouldn't tank their entire sales.

  

  Dave Goldberg
  • Sales

• We are asking the question: What makes the most sense for public-private partnerships for affordable housing.

  

  David Ige
  • Question

• When you see a person you love being affected, suffering, people saying things that aren't true... then it hurts you.

  

  Neymar
  • People
  • True
  • Suffering

• I love to talk about cooking and recipes, but I love as much talking about how food and cooking can change the world.

  

  Jose Andres
  • World
  • Food
  • Cooking

• I'm very lighthearted, outgoing, friendly, and funny, so I like to try new things.

  

  Chandler Parsons
  • Funny

• At the same time, Republicans are pushing a $70 billion tax package that will overwhelmingly benefit the most wealthy Americans and actually increases the deficit by $16 billion.

  

  Marty Meehan
  • Time

• New York publishing is about, 'What's the next Harry Potter? What's the next Twilight?' When I've approached people, I've asked, 'What is the book you've been dying to do, but New York won't do?' I want the books that they think won't sell - because I think they will.

  

  Marissa Moss
  • People
  • Book
  • Dying

• I'm a Wisconsin kid, so I like brats and burgers and stuff like that. Cheese curds.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Like
  • Kid
  • Cheese

• Everything creepy and Southern isn't Faulknerian, just like everything annoying isn't Kafkaesque.

  

  Scott Spencer
  • Annoying
  • Creepy