Winfield Scott Quotes
I placed the Marines where the hardest work was to be accomplished, and I never once found my confidence in them misplaced.
Quotes to Explore
-
I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education.
-
From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even a company of soldiers, who only grow worse when they are kindly treated.
-
Not owning a car anymore, I feel like I'm barely an American. I miss it. And I barely ever get to listen to the radio in the car, which is the best place for radio.
-
I believe in God, but I don't know what it is - if it's a he, she, a he-she, or anything. Who knows what it is. All I know is that I feel like there's something else there.
-
At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in the United States would be a double major in Russian and French, but I have to admit that the pressure of getting through so many books spoiled reading for me.
-
I didn't start singing until I was 16. I was afraid to sing in front of people.
-
Fox was interested in a different title to 'Independence Day.'
-
I had been asking the universe and God to send me a way for me to help me. Show business has been so wonderful to me, and it came in the form of that. It's just so funny how things come into your life, and if you take a chance on them, it might give you a brand new life.
-
MySpace is my wife... Facebook is my mistress.
-
I want to do right, apart from my gender - I want to do right as a campaign manager.
-
I love comedy. Comedy is one of my favourite things to do.
-
I was privileged to know the late, great Miss Etta James, and I did get a chance to spend some time with her and hang out with her.
-
Cinema at its best can express something of the pure irreducible fact of things.
-
My father was a man who didn't consider himself learned. He was a man who liked to be a farmer. He enjoyed his dairy farm and felt the calling. So there was a dedication. I was dedicated as a child to the service of God, and so there was this continual centering of a greater purpose than your own.
-
People thought I was cocky because I didn't talk much. When I first turned pro, reporters asked me who was going to win. I'd say, 'I am' because it was the easier than giving some long, drawn-out answer.
-
If you never give up and you strive hard and focus on every move like a chess game, you will make it. I believe that wholeheartedly.
-
Movies make teenagers have quippy answers for every question. Nothing seems to faze them, and they're like, 'Oh, whatever.' You're not like that when you're a teenager. You're really earnest. Things really feel like life or death. And you kind of oscillate between emotions at one time. It's very emotionally draining being a teenager.
-
The person doing the learning is the person writing the book as much as the person reading it.
-
I think forcing people to uncover their head is as tyrannical as forcing them to cover it.
-
I'm looking forward to the fighting with no headgear - I'm jealous. I kind of want to go back to the Olympics to experience no headgear.
-
I've learned ... that no one is perfect until you fall in love with them.
-
I placed the Marines where the hardest work was to be accomplished, and I never once found my confidence in them misplaced.
