Walter Scott Quotes

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.

Walter Scott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

StudentPersonDiaryRuleTreasures

I try to be the best man I can for the day.

Jim Caviezel

BestDayManI CanTryBest Man

People looked at my early pictures and called them the most disgusting things ever, and now 'Hairspray' is being done at every school in Britain and America.

John Waters

SchoolPeopleAmericaEarlyPictures

I wanted to hold onto and exploit the power of narrative. This is not only a book about a great storyteller, but there have to be stories about the storyteller.

Stephen Greenblatt

PowerGreatBookNarrativeHold

Those who kept their sanity and humanity intact in the face of awful adversity. Heroes named and unnamed, some known only to God.

Silvia Cartwright

AdversityGodFaceHumanityHeroes

I get tired of wearing the same thing all the time too.

Tori Amos

TimeTiredSameGetSame ThingToo

I went to Queen's - a fine university with the proudly stupidest frosh week in the country. This was, when I was there, supposed to be somehow evidence of a higher social class.

Russell Smith

QueenWeekCountryClassUniversity

When you're not part of a club, you have to find another way of surviving.

Mika

YouFindWaySurvivingClubPart

I find myself fascinating.

Milan Kundera

MyselfFindFascinating

Our world is at the crossroads. We have a choice, right and wrong.

LL Cool J

WorldChoiceWrongRightCrossroads

Without computers, in the 17th century, we could classify the entire animal kingdom... there was this idea of the speciation, right? And now, all a search engine is is essentially the mathematical speciation of ideas - and these things really derive from the way that language is used and the way words relate.

Joshua Cohen

WordsAnimalIdeasComputersSearch

Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth.

Plautus

BadMoreConductThanFinestFilth

Being a stepmother has worked out very well for me. I love my stepchildren very much.

Philippa Gregory

LoveMeOutBeingWellStepmother

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