Ken Stott Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.
-
All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
-
You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
-
As a very young writer - kindergarten through about fifth grade - I most often wrote about black characters. My very early stories were science fiction and fantasy, with kids stowing away on spaceships and a girl named Tilly who was trying to get into the 'Guinness Book of World Records.'
-
We may have lured judges into roaming at large in the constitutional field.
-
Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.
-
I didn't realize that winning the Olympics at age 14 automatically put me in the category of being a celebrity.
-
You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.
-
I don't hit it as far as a lot of guys do, so I have to be in the right spot in the fairway to score, and that means driving it well. The two biggest keys for me are to make a good transition and to keep my hands ahead of the clubhead through impact. I want to feel as if my swing is two swings: one going back and another coming down.
-
I spent a lot of time in boarding school. This is something I will never do to my kids. I think if you're having kids, then you have to take care of them; otherwise, what's the point? There are many things that parents say are good for the kids, but the truth is they say that because it is good for the parents.
-
Trust your gut. You know yourself, so don't let somebody else tell you who you are.
-
Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
-
I love the feeling that you get when you can really laugh with a man and be natural and not always think that there's a sexual element going on. For me, flirting with a man means making fun of myself and trying to open myself and be very unpretentious.
-
I was bloody ill-tempered when I was young.
-
I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.
-
Don't take things too seriously, and just chill.
-
In the winter of 2012, as my fiftieth birthday approached, I began to write what turned into my autobiography, a look at my own life through the lens of food.
-
I am a friend of Adventist people and a lover of truth.
-
The more successful we get, the more opportunities come our way.
-
I got to have a great big knock-down, drag-out fight with Sylvester Stallone. Every actor should have that much fun at some point. You can hit him as hard as you can, and it's never enough for him.
-
The love of what you do, combined with your belief in what you do, will not determine your success. It will determine how hard you will work and how dedicated you will be to achieving it. Success just shows up from there.
-
Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field.
-
Success is failure inside out.
-
I wanted success, but I wanted it on my own terms.
