Charlie Scott Quotes

Principals don't like surprises, but I like this one. Thank you for paying attention to those of us who had concerns.

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• Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Culture
  • Know
  • Irony

• Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Long
  • Live
  • Why

• I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Good
  • Different
  • Think

• When I have a creative block, I take walks. I like to see what shapes stick out - so many legs rushing by at once, it can seem abstract. I don't need to see great art to get stirred up. Music does that for me more easily.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Up
  • Great
  • Music

• I was shocked when I heard that Farghadani had been sentenced to 12 years and nine months in prison on spurious charges, as Amnesty International notes, of 'spreading propaganda against the system,' 'insulting members of the parliament through paintings' and 'insulting the Supreme Leader' with her cartoon.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Leader
  • Prison
  • Propaganda

• In a world where everyone is behaving honestly, any dishonesty constitutes a big infraction. But, in a world where many people are behaving dishonestly, and the news is filled with stories of their infractions, even big infractions can feel small to the perpetrator.

  

  Dan Ariely
  • People
  • World
  • Small

• Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • People
  • Nature
  • Question

• I'm happy. I learned. I learned from my mistakes. But when you learn, you see all the results; you look more mature, and you put all the pieces together.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Together
  • Happy
  • Mistakes

• I went through my whole life wanting to feel I belonged. I was very, very lonely, so I would marry people that I wasn't really in love with, and who weren't right for me, because I hoped they would be.

  

  Lana Wood
  • People
  • Life
  • Feel

• It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform the world's wrong the greatest of all.

  

  Laurence Housman
  • World

• There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I've played up to that a bit in interviews.

  

  Bjork
  • Up

• You have to get an individual who's willing to actually struggle with the system to change it. As long as you have people who - to make substantive changes, to make infrastructure changes.

  

  Amiri Baraka
  • People
  • Long
  • Struggle

• When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

  

  Liberty Hyde Bailey
  • Alone

• I think it's inconsistent to tell the American people that you oppose the war and, yet, you continue to vote to fund the war. Because every time you vote to fund the war, you're reauthorizing the war all over again.

  

  Dennis Kucinich
  • People
  • Time
  • American

• In grief, after even the happiest of relationships, we go over things again and again.

  

  Laurie Graham
  • Grief

• I would make a huge distinction between theater improvisation and film improvisation.

  

  Christopher Guest

• In the Premier League, you never know who is going to win or who will be champions. It is always a surprise.

  

  Neymar

• Once I release a song, it's not just about me or the people... I write about. They're my stories, but they're not really mine any more.

  

  Jens Lekman
  • People
  • Song

• Cobain the writer is funny and self-aware and snotty with a knack for off-the-cuff profundity. Remarking to a friend that his band will be called 'Nirvana,' he scribbles next to it the words 'Oooh eerie mystical doom.'

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Words
  • Funny
  • Friend

• After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration.

  

  Harry Seidler
  • Italy
  • Millennium
  • Elaboration

• I wasn't used to the attention, I wasn't used to having money, I wasn't used to being the main focus on an NBA team.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Money
  • Team
  • Attention

• If you use a colloquialism or a slang word or phrase, simply use it; do not draw attention to it by enclosing it in quotation marks. To do so is to put on airs, as though you were inviting the reader to join you in a select society of those who know better.

  

  William Strunk, Jr.
  • Attention
  • Air
  • Quotations

• Principals don't like surprises, but I like this one. Thank you for paying attention to those of us who had concerns.

  

  Charlie Scott
  • Attention
  • Surprises
  • Concerns