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Scott Adams Quotes

You give anybody a billion dollars, and of course they are passionate. Passion is one of those things like willpower in that there's 'magical thinking' about it. You've got to be careful about 'magical thinking.'

Scott Adams

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: cartoonist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 8, 1957

Topics

Passion Thinking You Passionate Give

To whom much is given, much is required - not expected, but required.

Andrew Young

Whom Much Expected Given Required

Obviously you can stash money under your mattress, cut down on hazelnut lattes, but in terms of the larger economic frame of our lives, we have very little agency. About one of the only things you can do is understand it.

John Lanchester

Money You Down Understand Frame Cut

Allowing yourself to smile takes 99% of the effort.

Simon Travaglia

Smile Yourself Effort Takes Allowing

I think the guys that get to the All-Star Game deserve a lot of credit. They deserve their opportunity to get out there and let the baseball fandom see them.

Tony La Russa

Opportunity Baseball Game Think See

If I didn't mind having a quarter of my car payment going towards a gym membership, I'd definitely go to Equinox.

Ross Butler

Car Mind Gym Go Membership Going

Anything to do with the South resonates with me, because I'm Southern.

Mary Steenburgen

Me Anything Because Southern South

I have a Keurig coffee maker, which is really kind of a luxury. It was given to me by an ex. I realized when I'm feeling sentimental, I'll gently, tenderly press the button. Then when I remember he dumped me, I punch it.

Mo Rocca

Coffee Me Remember Luxury Feeling

The sheeplike nature of travel - being on a beach with thousands of other people is not my idea of fun. I also don't like being a tourist because you don't know what's really going on in a country.

Diana Quick

Nature Beach Travel Fun People You

If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal.

Douglas Coupland

Cats Pet Now Size Double Were

I was an altar boy and heard the Bible being read out repeatedly. The stories have stayed with me, although they're completely remixed in my head. And often, when I do further reading, I'm quite surprised by the difference between the real story and my memory of the story.

Chris Ofili

Memory Me Bible Reading Story Boy

I guess, like most foreigners, when you're away, you see your own culture being even more strange. But where I come from and my roots mean a lot. I miss my family and my friends. Something I've realized as I've been traveling is that it's more about the actual people than the actual place.

Alicia Vikander

Family Culture People Roots Friends

It must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures.

Potter Stewart

Constitution Always Remembered Must