Dana Scott Quotes

#1. Every religion in the world has had a subset of devotees who seek a direct, transcendent experience with God, excusing themselves from fundamentalist scriptural or dogmatic study in order to personally encounter the divine.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#2. Something most people don't know about me is that I never grew up.

Alexander Siddig

#3. But music only exists because the pauses exist, and sentences only exist because the blank spaces exist.

Paulo Coelho

#4. But it did not much care for hunting, and then like so many geldings it spent much of its time mourning for its lost stones: a discontented horse.

Patrick O'Brian

#5. O happiness! our being's end and aim!
Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name:
That something still which prompts the eternal sigh,
For which we bear to live, or dare to die.

Alexander Pope

#6. Why did becoming accustomed to something have to render its pleasures stale.

Guy Gavriel Kay

#7. Good deeds must be rewarded by the system and crimes be punished - this is the essence of meritocracy.

Imran Khan

#8. Rest if you must, but never quit.

John Greenleaf Whittier

#9. It's cool when fashion recycles itself, it's not cool when sustainable living does because it means there was (and is as I write) a period of absolute and possibly irreversible destruction.

Cameron Conaway

#10. I've basically made a career out of my imagination. I feel very lucky.

Kat Dennings

#11. A real reader creates her own canon, for it consists precisely of those books that she has used to create herself.

William Deresiewicz

#12. You can fly as high as you can.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. When you speak a new language you must see if you can translate all of the poetry of your old language into the new one.

Dana Scott

#14. This is the deal, Angel. You ... ran ... away from me. And I tasted regret for the first time in my life. And that didn't sting, it fuckin' killed.

Kristen Ashley

#15. I try to avoid political ties.

Rick Santelli

#16. When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.

David Antin

#17. Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later.

Dana Scott