William Scott Quotes

The one thing you've got to say about Columbia is that it has courses that are famous. It has alumni who come back and say it was the best thing they ever did.

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• Among the many things that have slipped up on me while my back was turned are all of these challenging and well-manicured public courses that have sprung up across America with elegant bars and restaurants.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Things
  • Public
  • Courses

• When I recorded for Columbia, I could usually do anything in one take...I would invariably want to use the first take because that would be the one that was spontaneous and fresh.

  

  Doris Day
  • Record
  • Anything
  • Spontaneous

• Of course it was a method of play you had to change because people get the idea once they have played against you.

  

  Jack Charlton
  • People
  • Change
  • Play

• Many people who gain recognition and fame shape their lives by overcoming seemingly insurmountable obstacles, only to be catapulted into new social realities over which they have less control and manage badly. Indeed, the annals of the famous and infamous are strewn with individuals who were both architects and victims of their life courses.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • People
  • Life
  • Control

• A Single journey can change the course of a life.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Life
  • Single
  • Journey

• Being pregnant was very much like falling in love. You are so open. You are so overjoyed. There's no words that can express having a baby growing inside of you so, of course, you want to scream it out and tell everyone.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Want
  • Words
  • Growing

• The school of life offers some difficult courses, but it is in the difficult class that one learns the most.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Life
  • School
  • Courses

• I grew up in a small Southern town, and there were white people and black people. Coming to New York to go to Columbia, every time I went into the subway I was absolutely astounded because you see people from all over the world who actually live here - who aren't just here as tourists.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I have to go with what I do, and what I do has more to do with what people say to each other than telling a story through images. Of course, you're trying to do both. And there are some people who are brilliant at it, but I don't consider myself to be particularly good at it. My mind gets into a verbal mode.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • People
  • Good
  • Mind

• In general, lives seem to veer abruptly from one thing to another, to jostle and bump, to squirm. A person heads in one direction, turns sharply in mid-course, stalls, drifts, starts up again. Nothing is ever known, and inevitably we come to a place quite different from the one we set out for.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Different
  • Persons
  • Turns

• I was a big fan of Ron Howard of course, so it was fantastic to meet him.

  

  Josephine de La Baume
  • Fans
  • Bigs
  • Courses

• Only by perfect virtue can the perfect path, in all its courses, be made a fact.

  

  Confucius
  • Virtue
  • Fact
  • Courses

• It is often said that the Church is a crutch. Of course it's a crutch. What makes you think you don't limp?

  

  William Sloane Coffin
  • Church
  • Said
  • Courses

• By beauty of course I mean truth, for the one involves the other; it is only the false in art which is ugly, and it is only the ugly that is universal.

  

  William Dean Howells
  • Art
  • Mean
  • Ugly

• In heaven, after antipasti, the first course will be pasta.

  

  Steve Albini Big Black
  • Heaven
  • Firsts
  • Courses

• Of course, there are diseases of which people die.

  

  Serge Lang
  • People
  • Disease
  • Courses

• Of course, screening for HIV did essentially eliminate the transmission of this virus by transfusions.

  

  Serge Lang
  • Courses
  • Transmission
  • Viruses

• I play with microbes. There are, of course, many rules to this play...but when you have acquired knowledge and experience it is very pleasant to break the rules and to be able to find something nobody has thought of.

  

  Alexander Acosta
  • Play
  • Able
  • Break

• Of course, not everybody's willing to go out and do the experiments, but for the people who are willing to go out and do that, - if the experiments don't work, then it means it's not science.

  

  Seth Lloyd
  • People
  • Mean
  • Courses

• Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going. Of course, some people never go beyond Expectations, but my job is to hurry them along whether they like it or not.

  

  Norton Juster
  • Jobs
  • Expectations
  • Courses

• I knew that I must paint not what I saw, but only what was in me, in my soul. Figuratively speaking, it was like this: In my heart I felt as if there were an organ, which I had to sound. And nature, which I saw before me, only prompted me. And that was a key that unlocked this organ and made it sound.. .They are songs without words.

  

  Alexej von Jawlensky
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Paint

• The one thing you've got to say about Columbia is that it has courses that are famous. It has alumni who come back and say it was the best thing they ever did.

  

  William Scott
  • Courses
  • Columbia
  • Alumni