Walter Scott Quotes

When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.

Walter Scott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

AloneThinkingFeelGoneOurselves

What 'Survivor' is really about is the inescapability of your being yourself, even when you have told yourself you can be someone different for 30 days.

Andrea Seigel

YourselfSomeoneYouSurvivorDays

One of the biggest changes that ever occurred in my life was going from the isolation of working part-time as a house painter in Henderson County, to Cornell, where everybody was a literary person.

Robert Morgan

LifeIsolationMy LifeHousePerson

Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.

Ambrose Bierce

PurposeMouthAnimalsDeadUsed

In fact, in 2002, the Secretary of Defense authorized such support on a reimbursable basis to organizations formerly components of the Department of Justice and Department of the Treasury and currently components of the Department of Homeland Security.

Solomon Ortiz

JusticeSupportSecurityDefense

When you have children, you can't say you're not interested in money.

Sloan Wilson

ChildrenMoneyYouSayInterested

I've gotten to a point where I wouldn't direct someone else's material. It would only be something totally original.

Trey Parker

SomeonePointOriginalSomething

I would love to be a father. I had a great father who taught me how gratifying that is. I'm not going to deny myself that. I think I'd be good at it. Everybody wants that experience. I definitely do.

Mike Myers

LoveGoodFatherGreatMyselfMe

I'm making a case against how money managers are handling customers' money. The objective of the customer is not being met if the fund managers are diversifying their assets into hundreds of businesses. If they do this, they are typically performing close to the indexes. But that's not the way wealth is created.

Michael Lee-Chin

MoneyCustomerWealthWayAgainst

Things hurt me just as much as anyone else. My insecurities, failures. I'm vulnerable to comparisons.

Diane Lane

MeHurtThingsJustInsecurities

Fitness, in my opinion, is a mental exercise more than just physical.

Anushka Shetty

FitnessOpinionExerciseMoreMental

We now live in the era of the super-specialist - of clinicians who have taken the time to practice at one narrow thing until they can do it better than anyone who hasn't.

Atul Gawande

LiveTimePracticeBetterNowEra

I'm not saying transgender characters should be only interpreted by transgender actors - because that would be as rigid as saying transgender actors cannot play cisgender roles, and that's not the idea.

Sebastian Lelio

SayingPlayTransgenderBecauseIdea

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