Walter Scott Quotes

If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.

Walter Scott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Plagiarism has been around far longer than the Internet. In fact, I had a poem published in 'Seventeen' magazine when I was 15 years old. About a year later I was informed that there was a girl who used that same poem to win a statewide poetry competition in Alabama. It took months for people to put together that this had happened.

Megan McCafferty

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The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

Robert Kiyosaki

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Amelia Earhart

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One of my problems is that I'm very honest and direct. You pay a price for that.

Amy Irving

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I actually think that bass is probably the instrument that has evolved in a quantum leap compared to other instruments. It's the instrument that's evolved the most, especially with how it's perceived. And even how it's played, and how it's viewed from a point of view of commerce, like with the music industry.

Stanley Clarke

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Knopf is solidly profitable, and that is how I intend to keep it.

Sonny Mehta

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I will always love red lips.

Rita Ora

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I'm confident in some of the things that I wear, regardless of what other people are wearing.

Russell Westbrook

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At its best, fiction cultivates fantasy and compassion; at its worst, memoir provokes schadenfreude and prurience. The ugly truth, I fear, is that many people are drawn to sensational memoirs for the same reason they watch 'The Apprentice': they like to witness actual suffering, before-your-very-eyes humiliation.

Julia Glass

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I don't sell myself. I've never explained my comedy to people who don't get it. Never complain. Never explain.

Lisa Lampanelli

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The Constitution has never treated religion as merely another private opinion that government can order people to keep to themselves.

Josh Hawley

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I always wanted to be a femme fatale. Even when I was a young girl, I never really wanted to be a girl. I wanted to be a woman.

Diane von Furstenberg

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