Szalkowski Scott Quotes

This is what a command is. Staring consequences in the eye and pretending not to flinch. ~ Scott Lynch

But he was never one of them; their relationship was too unequal. He had loved them so he could know them, and he had known them so he could use them. ~ Orson Scott Card

The first of a thousand lies. Truth flowed to Micah Quill, was sucked in and disappeared, and emerged again looking ever so much like it used to, but changed subtly, at the edges, where none would notice, so that simple truth became a complicated fabric indeed, one that could wrap you up so tightly and close you off from the air until you suffocated in it. ~ Orson Scott Card

I don't have 30 days and 30 nights, to show you why all the hoochies say there's nothing finer than Scott Steiner, but all I need is one night to have your wife call me for the rest of her life, the big bad booty daddy, so this goes to all my freaks out there, Big Poppa Pump is your hook up, hollar if you hear me. ~ Scott Steiner

You have a bad habit of listing anything that can go wrong, Volger."
"I have always considered that a good habit ~ Scott Westerfeld

As I grow through love, so grows my joy, ever more present, ever more constant. ~ M. Scott Peck

Listen, if you walk into a whorehouse and find yourself getting sucked off, it's because you put some money on the counter, not because the gods transported a pair of lips to your cock.' 'That's . . . a really incredible metaphor, Jean, but I think I could use some help translating it.' 'What I'm saying is, we have a duty to accept on faith, but also a duty to weigh and judge. Once you insist that some mundane thing was actually the miraculous hand of the gods, why not treat everything that way? When you start finding messages from the heavens in your breakfast sausages, you've thrown aside your responsibility to use your head. If the gods wanted credulous idiots for priests, why wouldn't they make you that way when you were chosen? ~ Scott Lynch

Years ago when I was at Fox, I was the executive on 'Raising Arizona.' ~ Scott Rudin

Nobody seems to bore you," he objected
"About half the world do," she admitted, "but I think that's a pretty good average, don't you?" and she turned to find something in Browning that bore on the subject. She was the only person he ever met who could look up passages and quotations to show him in the middle of conversation, and yet not be irritating to distraction. She did it constantly, with such serious enthusiasm that he grew fond of watching her golden hair bent over a book, brow wrinkled so little at hunting her sentence. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

It's not fair that you remember and I don't."
"No," he said, his voice hard, cold, in a way I hadn't heard it. He looked over at me, jaw set. "It's not fair that I remember and you don't, Evelyn. ~ Kylie Scott

My eyes widen at
the sight of her. This is the girl
Boss Man is after? She looks like a
porcelain doll ... beat three times
with an ugly stick. ~ Victoria Scott

Travel, which had once charmed him, seemed, at length, unendurable, a business of color without substance, a phantom chase after his own dream's shadow. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

The Swiss, in addition to being self-righteous and unyielding, will do anything to avoid conflict. Decorum and civility define their culture. Although they are unhappy or worried most of the time, they do not show it. I do not as yet have sufficient information to support the opinion, but I believe that the Swiss government has ordered Prozac to be added to the water. ~ Scott Haas

One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a war. ~ Orson Scott Card

The problem of unmet expectations in marriage is primarily a problem of stereotyping. Each and every human being on this planet is a unique person. Since marriage is inevitably a relationship between two unique people, no one marriage is going to be exactly like any other. Yet we tend to wed with explicit visions of what a "good" marriage ought to be like. Then we suffer enormously from trying to force the relationship to fit the stereotype and from the neurotic guilt and anger we experience when we fail to pull it off. ~ M. Scott Peck

Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along--the same person that I am today. I never felt that I spoke childishly. I never felt that my emotions and desires were somehow less real than adult emotions and desires. And in writing _Ender's Game_, I forced the audience to experience the lives of these children from that perspective--the perspective in which their feelings and decisions are just as real and important as any adult's. ... _Ender's Game_ asserts the personhood of children, and those who are used to thinking of children in another way ... are going to find _Ender's Game_ a very unpleasant place to live. ~ Orson Scott Card

The only people who think children are carefree are the ones who've forgotten their own childhood. ~ Orson Scott Card

Weedon Scott had set himself the task of redeeming White Fang - or rather, of redeeming mankind from the wrong it had done White Fang. It was a matter of principle and conscience. He felt that the ill done White Fang was a debt incurred by man and that it must be paid. ~ Jack London

That special bond you think you have with your pet is imaginary. As long as it has food and water, you could get hit by a train tomorrow, and your pet wouldn't think anything of it. ~ Scott Dikkers

Those who work for the government are never men of their word. -Axel Chambers ~ Rosie Scott

I always knew that I was called to do something. I didn't know what, but I finally rationalized after I met Martin [Luther King, Jr.] and it took a lot of praying to discover this, that this was probably what God had called me to do, to marry him. ~ Coretta Scott King

Music isn't just a pleasure, a transient satisfaction. It's a need, a deep hunger; and when the music is right, it's joy. Love. A foretaste of heaven. A comfort in grief.
Is it too much to think that perhaps God speaks to us sometimes through music?
How, then, could I be so ungrateful as to refuse the message? ~ Orson Scott Card

'You Can't Take It With You' has eighteen people onstage at one point. Musicals entail a larger collaboration, and I love that. ~ Scott Ellis

It's a thrilling world, and people really like stories about secrets, which is the essence of a spy drama. ~ Andrew Scott

Did he really say he was going to miss me? Maybe he had and it didn't mean anything major. You could run out of ketchup and miss it without a crushing sense of deprivation overwhelming your life. It was, after all, just a condiment. I might well be the current pick of the condiments in his life. But he'd still eat a hamburger without me. A ~ Kylie Scott

But I think it's useful to note that at any particular point in our lives our minds are full not just of our own memories but of the experiences of characters from the books we've been reading. That's if we are lucky to have the education and leisure to read at all. And the curiosity ~ Joanna Scott

Ideas are worthless if you can't make them happen. ~ Scott Belsky

Scott the other night: the dream was just my brain picking all that apart. ~ Paula Hawkins

She smiled, a moving childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

I was a big Jersey meat-and-potatoes kind of guy before I got here. ~ Scott Wolf

We make things happen be believing they will," he once said to me. "We dream where we're headed, and one day, as if entering that dream, we arrive there". ~ Scott Fotheringham

As I've gotten older, I've become attracted to things that have substance. ~ Seann William Scott

People talk of the courage of convictions, but in actual life a man's duty to his family may make a rigid course seem a selfish indulgence of his own righteousness. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

Here is a writer possessing the greatest talent: that of fully inhabiting the lives of others. Spargo conjures up these two as no one has done before. Scott and Zelda become, in Spargo's remarkable novel, not people of history but of literature, and reminders of what we fight for, what we fail to win, and the beauty that abides between. A marvel of a book. ~ Andrew Sean Greer

I was still water, held by my surroundings.
I am now a river, carving my own path. ~ Scott Stabile

Sit with a merchant or sit with a beggar, and it'll always be the beggar who buys your first drink. ~ R. Scott Bakker

There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald