Vin Scully Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists.
-
The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple as that. Of course, it's important to make a living and all that, but the main impulse as far as I'm concerned - and I'm sure as other writers are concerned - is to tell a story that I feel impelled by.
-
When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
-
Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
-
I don't like the blame game, though.
-
When you start writing songs on your own, there's no Bible, there's no one around you, so you're just writing, and you're left with, like, the dead space in your head to know if it's a good song or an interesting concept.
-
Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
-
Music will always be my greatest passion.
-
I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
-
Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.
-
Let us therefore be of a reverent spirit, and fear the long-suffering of God, that it tend not to our condemnation.
-
The thing I love about vampires that I find so fascinating is that, unlike other sci-fi creations, they aren't monsters from the get-go, they're human beings first... and so what kind of human you are would dictate what kind of vampire you would be.
-
Most people are really dedicated to doing good things.
-
The chemotherapy was very peculiar, something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself, a very nasty thing. I used to go to treatment on my own, and nearly everybody else was with somebody. I wouldn't have liked that. Why would you want to make anybody sit in those places?
-
I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
-
I am always plagued with 'I'm not skinny enough, I'm not in shape.' I am not naturally this super-svelte kind of girl. I'm okay with that in my personal life. But it is kind of hard at times. I feel inadequate, I suppose?
-
If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning.
-
The television business is based on managed dissatisfaction. You're watching a great television show you're really wrapped up in? You might get 50 minutes of watching a week and then 18,000 minutes of waiting until the next episode comes along.
-
State government's efforts to address climate change must include reduced consumption and other conservation measures as water shortages become the new normal.
-
Never trust a woman who wears mauve, whatever her age may be, or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons.
-
A thousand years ago five minutes were Equal to forty ounces of fine sand. Outstare the stars. Infinite foretime and Infinite aftertime: above your head They close like giant wings, and you are dead.
-
Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.
-
They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong.
-
A man really determines himself by what he does.
