Lisa Scottoline Quotes

You don't have to be dead to write a classic, and you don't have to be literary to be smart.

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• I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.

  

  Samuel Barber
  • Everything
  • Go
  • Doctor

• Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love.

  

  Sam Peckinpah
  • Love
  • Fall
  • Find

• He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Tree
  • Fruit
  • Tall

• If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Will
  • Prosperity
  • Far

• The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Real
  • Character
  • Woman

• The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.

  

  Harlan Ellison
  • Universe
  • Two
  • Stupidity

• My husband is a musician. He cooks and he's a chef but he also, he makes basement recordings. So many people in my life make basement recordings, so I feel very lucky, I'm surrounded by very creative people.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • People
  • Life
  • Husband

• I would probably do anything with David Mamet. He's so great. I just love his writing.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Probably

• Then all of a sudden, Quentin Tarantino comes along and puts a song from 40 years ago in one of his films and they've suddenly discovered you. That was a real gift that Quentin gave me.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Song
  • Me
  • Gift

• I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Want
  • Name
  • Albums

• If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Up
  • Sleep
  • Worry

• No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • Person
  • Language
  • Mouth

• I belong to the Congress. My party has always supported prohibition, though it may not have been successful in implementing prohibition in many states.

  

  Palaniappan Chidambaram
  • May
  • Party
  • Successful

• A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Country
  • Home
  • Man

• The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Country
  • Culture
  • Small

• Anyway I will go same road because I, I was born in gymnastics. This is my, how to say, my life and my duty.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • Life
  • Road
  • Same

• When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what you're doing is not any kind of public show, until you're ready for it.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Time
  • Writing

• Some of the senior people, the very senior astronauts, shook my hand and said, 'K.C., you did a great job. Don't let anyone tell you different.'

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • People
  • Great
  • Different

• My hope is that in the future, women stop referring to themselves as 'the only woman' in their physics lab or 'only one of two' in their computer science jobs.

  

  Kirsten Gillibrand
  • Women
  • Hope
  • Future

• 'Under the guise of having every voice heard, you create mob rule, a filterless society where secrets are crimes.'

  

  Dave Eggers
  • Society

• 'Hey, what's the name of that nice young girl, my loyalist supporter?' I said, Mr. President, her name is Annie Ferrer. 'Will you give that girl my regards and kisses?' he asked. I said yes, of course-it was really strange.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Girl
  • Nice

• Open-source encyclopedias such as Wikipedia and search engines such as Google and Bing, which people can tap into anytime and anywhere via computers and smart phones, put a world of knowledge at our fingertips at a lower cost than ever before.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • World
  • Knowledge

• I've always looked at my career as an athlete would look at his. I won't play forever. Some don't know when to walk away, but the smart ones do.

  

  Mark Wahlberg
  • Career
  • Forever
  • Smart

• You don't have to be dead to write a classic, and you don't have to be literary to be smart.

  

  Lisa Scottoline
  • Smart