William Scott Quotes

You just don't want to push people into doing things that they really don't want to do. I don't think it's going to produce much.

William Scott

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• I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.

  

  Jack O'Connell
  • Good
  • Art
  • Preparation

• Being a gal, people can be a bit patronizing. 'Oh, look at you using the computer.' They would never say that to a boy. And I don't let them do it to me.

  

  FKA twigs
  • People
  • Never
  • Boy

• I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Life
  • Want
  • You

• I'm from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I was driving over to Beverly Hills, to 20th Century Fox, to be on 'M*A*S*H!'

  

  G. W. Bailey
  • Character
  • America
  • Guy

• I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Good
  • Work
  • Art

• Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Love
  • Bad
  • Green

• I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world.

  

  Taliesin
  • World
  • Praise
  • Royal

• I think my generation is obsessed with instant gratification. We want everything now, now, now.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Think
  • Want
  • Generation

• I've always been working just to be a world champion and it's a dream come true.

  

  Yohan Blake
  • World
  • True
  • Dream

• My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Control
  • Failure
  • Fault

• To someone who is not currently on anti-depressants, I would suggest trying other treatments first - for example, psychotherapy.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • Trying
  • First
  • Example

• I have consistently supported laws ensuring women are able to make their own health care decisions, and I will continue to protect women's access to contraceptives and reproductive health care.

  

  Dan Maffei
  • Women
  • Health
  • Decisions

• That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Moments
  • Miracle
  • Youth

• Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

  

  Quintilian
  • Wish
  • Wise
  • Fools

• I have been back in Paris for two weeks. Nothing new. Life is still bitter.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Life
  • Paris
  • Bitter

• The field of ageing research is full of characters. We have hucksters claiming that cures for ageing can be bought and sold; prophetic seers, their hands extended for money, warning that immortality is nigh; and would-be Nobelists working methodically in laboratories in search of a pill to slow ageing.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Money
  • Search
  • Research

• People call me a hermit. But I'm happy.

  

  Sage Stallone
  • People
  • Happy
  • Me

• I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Men
  • Think
  • Otherwise

• I mean, I haven't been completely lacking in some enjoyment of Chuck Berry or Buddy Holly. But I just didn't pay attention to that period of music, obviously.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Music
  • Attention
  • Mean

• America deserves common sense immigration reform that reflects our interests and our values as Americans.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • America
  • Values
  • Immigration

• There ain't no genius here. Strategy in baseball is overrated. People say, 'That Weaver, he plays for the long ball too much.' You bet I do. Hit 'em out. Then I got no worry about somebody lousing up a bunt, I got no worry about the hit and run - and that's really overrated - I got no worry about base-running errors. And I can't screw it up myself.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• People will come up to me everywhere and say, 'Ah, I saw you on 'Larry King,' and, 'Ah, I saw you on 'Oprah.' And it's really nice, and a lot of people say, 'Is it a pain?' And I say 'No.' And it's not annoying.

  

  Mattie Stepanek
  • People
  • Up
  • Nice

• Fiction makes your dreams come true, and, as a writer, fiction allows you to delve into the area of miracles.

  

  James McBride
  • True

• You just don't want to push people into doing things that they really don't want to do. I don't think it's going to produce much.

  

  William Scott
  • People
  • Think
  • Push