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Walter Scott Quotes

We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: scottish
Birth: August 15, 1771 - September 21, 1832

Topics

Snow Build See Out Melt Statues

I've taught fifth-year Christmas leavers last thing on a Friday afternoon. Basically, if you can face that you can face anything.

Face Friday You Christmas Anything

Of course it's difficult to turn anything down when Mike Nichols calls you personally.

You Down Difficult Turn Anything

I read the papers every day just to discover if one mentions Anna Held.

Day Every Day Just Read Discover

I think if everyone would write down the funny stories from their own childhoods, the world would be a better place.

Funny World Think Better Down Place

Living on hypocrisy is not a healthy diet for patriots.

Diet Hypocrisy Healthy Living

As someone who writes and teaches YA fiction, I spend a lot of time trying to define its character and readership, and I don't think I'm alone - genres are all about boundary drawing, and the YA genre is, in a lot of ways, about carving out boundaries around adolescence, a space for teenagers to do teenage things.

Robin Wasserman

Character Alone Time Space Think

As Americans, it is always important to remember where we once were and how far we have come.

Remember Important Always How Far

Nothing can express the aim and meaning of our work better than the profound words of St. Augustine - 'Beauty is the splendor of Truth.'

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Work Beauty Truth Words Better Aim

The French press can be very harsh, and the one thing they can't bear is multi-tasking. They despise it to the highest degree, so from the age of five I've been taught that if I did two things at the same time, it meant I didn't know how to do one. It's an obsession that they have.

Age Time Know Bear Obsession Degree

I completely understand social media as a method of promotion and digesting information, but it just seems like a colossal waste of time to me, and there's a million other ways I'd rather waste my time.

Jason Mantzoukas

Time Social Media Me Media Promotion

Oh leave the Wise our measures to collate. One thing at least is certain, light has weight. One thing is certain and the rest debate. Light rays, when near the Sun, do not go straight.

Arthur Eddington

Light Sun Wise Rest Debate Go

As an American man of the 1990s writing about a Japanese woman of the 1930s, I needed to cross three cultural divides - man to woman, American to Japanese, and present to past.

Woman Past Man Writing Present

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