Walter Scott Quotes

If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.

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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YouRiseOverTurnUpSide

I read in the papers how much I'm earning and fall about laughing because I'm sure it's not that much; otherwise, I'd have an enormous boat. I'm literally not the slightest bit interested in money. I just don't pay any attention to money; it's rather vulgar.

Jeremy Clarkson

MoneyBoatAttentionFallPaySure

We have an amazing job. We get to travel around the world and experience different cultures and just learn so many things.

John Gourley

ExperienceJobTravelAmazingWorld

I probably wouldn't make a good accountant. I don't even understand what my accountant tells me. But the character is a sort of exaggerated version of me, he's a little more frightened than I am, everything seems so much bigger to him than it does to me.

Matthew Broderick

GoodCharacterI AmMeAccountant

I haven't reported in grand detail on rituals of American life, road journeys or malls or the death of steel-manufacturing towns. I think this is because I feel a degree of alienation that I cannot combat.

Amitava Kumar

LifeDeathDetailRoadThinkFeel

To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.

Tristan Bernard

LivePeopleAskGiveOnlyThem

For each human being, time is a necessary resource. It can neither be ignored nor changed.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

TimeHumanHuman BeingBeingChanged

What they will do is, you know the tabloids. They'll take one element of a story that may be true and they'll build everything around it. Take a picture and invent a story around it.

Dennis Quaid

StoryPictureYouBe TrueKnowTrue

The beginning of a plot is the prompting of desire.

Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

BeginningDesirePlot

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

Brigitte Bardot

ChangeMindsIdiotsOnlyRefuse

I've become convinced that nostalgia is a fundamentally unhealthy modality. When you see it, it's usually attached to something else that's really, seriously bad. I don't traffic in nostalgia. We're becoming a global culture.

William Gibson

CultureYouBadNostalgiaSeriously

It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union. And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity, but to the whole people - women as well as men.

Susan B. Anthony

WomenMenPeopleBlessingsWhite

It was hard to work and work and work and not get your music played on the radio.

Shelby Lynne

WorkMusicHardRadioGetYour

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