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

• Any time you make more than a couple of friends at an event, I think that you actually made no friends.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Think

• 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

• Said the self-righteous preacher, 'What, in your judgment, is the greatest sin in the world?' 'That of the person who sees other human beings as sinners,' said the Master.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • World

• I never did say that you can't be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run, I'd trip her up.

  

  Leo Durocher
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Guy

• At last we've seen the first installment of Joss Whedon's new web series, 'Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog,' and it's sweeter than we'd ever imagined.

  

  Annalee Newitz

• I've been really, lucky and sometimes you think, 'Why? How did this happen to me - what did I do to deserve this?' And you realize how much it's just luck. And then you see that there's a lot of people who are not as lucky as you are, and I want to like share that luck, you know?

  

  Natalie Portman
  • People
  • Think
  • Lucky

• I'm against an all-white anything or an all-black anything.

  

  Charles Evers
  • Black

• 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