Walter Scott Quotes

The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.

Walter Scott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeEyesMeIdeasMy LifeTask

It's fantastic that the world is becoming more open to different ways of working, but we still have a long way to go in terms of changing perceptions.

Maynard Webb

WorldLongGoWayMoreOpen

It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to master a foreign language if you're not brought up with it.

Max von Sydow

WorkLoveMeLanguageLearnYou

I listen to the older people who talk to me. I call them my old heads, people with a lot of wisdom. They'll teach you a lot if you listen.

Stefon Diggs

WisdomPeopleMeYouTeachTalk

I'm the messiest person I know.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

PersonKnow

It was through cooking food and sharing it with each other that our ancestors learned how to become social animals.

Ruth Reichl

FoodCookingSharingAnimalsBecome

Marley Coffee is dedicated to my father's dream to return to the farmlands, to offer our family treasures to the world.

Rohan Marley

FamilyFatherCoffeeWorldDream

To succeed in big-city politics requires a powerful, motivating vision of a better world, a plan to get there, a willingness to meet constituents on their terms, and a tough political skin.

Michael Nutter

VisionPoliticsSucceedWorldBetter

I have not always been a risk taker.

Julia Hartz

RiskAlwaysBeen

It's increasingly rare for me to find things that challenge me as an actor because the challenge of my personal life, and how fulfilling I find it, is tough to compete with.

Julia Roberts

LifeChallengeMeToughFindActor

I have never once asked Alaskans to like how I got this job.

Lisa Murkowski

JobNeverGotLikeHowOnce

It wasn't through choice that I became a mum at 36. I wanted to be a young mum but things never worked out for me.

Denise Van Outen

MeChoiceYoungNeverOutThrough

If you're lucky enough to draw a good horse, you still have to ride him, then the next ones.

Chris LeDoux

GoodRideHorseEnoughYouLucky

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