Antonin Scalia Quotes

I don't think it's a living document, I think it's dead. More precisely, I think it's enduring. It doesn't change. I think that needs to be orthodoxy.

Antonin Scalia

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• I think you have to learn for yourself how to write. I'm slightly mystified by creative writing courses - God love them - because I can't understand how you can explain a process that I find so baffling.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • God
  • Writing
  • Love

• You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • You
  • Peace
  • Hands

• I'm not a pop act, churning stuff out really quickly. I find the music that arises from that style of working is distracted, not particularly profound.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Music
  • Style
  • Find

• Older women know who they are, and that makes them more beautiful than younger ones. I like to see a face with some character. I want to see lines. I want to see wrinkles.

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • Women
  • Character
  • Beautiful

• My most favorite thing about London is that nobody recognizes me. It's really... cool.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Me
  • Cool
  • Favorite

• It's a very unique feeling - to be that strong and unbreakable. But I'm working towards it.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Strong
  • Feeling
  • Unique

• Being a magician taught me how powerful the element of surprise can be. In each book, I've tried to work that in - an unexpected twist in a story that reveals an insight, a counter intuitive study that turns your beliefs upside-down.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Work
  • Book
  • Powerful

• He testified that when you looked at it through the eyes of 'let's do it', the costs were very small. They were less than they'd had to spend to host a convention of transportation executives. The cost was not that great.

  

  Major Owens
  • Great
  • Small
  • Eyes

• I challenge myself everywhere, onstage, on the golf course. Hey, isn't that the point of it all? To keep getting better? Otherwise why do it?

  

  Hal Linden
  • Why
  • Myself
  • Challenge

• For eight years, I was sleeping with the president, and if that doesn't give you special access, I don't know what does!

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • You
  • Know
  • Special

• When you use your faith, it gives you energy. It gives you the ability to be able to see beyond where you are right now and see into the future.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Future
  • Energy
  • Faith

• I think there's so much emphasis on body image and results and outcome, but really what you should be after is to be healthy and to feel good about yourself.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Good
  • Body
  • Yourself

• I always take my make-up off before bed.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Up
  • Always
  • Take

• You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Moon
  • Stars
  • Jealousy

• There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Singing
  • Hear
  • Singer

• I'll officer you.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest

• She poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Music
  • She

• …English translation of the Koran. I wonder how, with such a repetitive farrago of platitudes, expressing so self-evident a theology and an ethic so puerile, Islam can have spread as it has.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Wonder

• Families, friends and communities often find a source of courage rising up from within. Indeed, sadly, it seems that it is tragedy that often draws out the most and the best from the human spirit.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Courage

• There are only three reasons to do a movie: the cast, the director, the role. Like I say, you live in a minute of screen time, but to prepare for the minute takes much more than a day. You'd better be excited about what those moments are, even if they're the hardest moments. Or the smallest.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Time
  • Live
  • Movie

• Last year's team, you didn't know if we were going to win or lose, but you knew we were going to fight. We have some different ways to score now, but do we have the same type of personality?

  

  Dan Monson
  • Win
  • Lose
  • Knew

• Congressional staff members do have a considerable amount of responsibility. But in my experience, the loyalty of the vast majority of staffers to their bosses leads them to be honest brokers of information for the members they work for.

  

  John Harwood
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Responsibility

• I'm the only pro-life woman in the Senate. I take this issue very seriously. I'm the mother of two children.

  

  Kelly Ayotte
  • Life
  • Children
  • Mother

• I don't think it's a living document, I think it's dead. More precisely, I think it's enduring. It doesn't change. I think that needs to be orthodoxy.

  

  Antonin Scalia