Top 100 Quotes About Scout
#1. Rewilders recognize that as long as empire exists, it will force people into domestication and prevent rewilding from taking place.
Urban Scout
#2. Plot joined the expedition unwooed, as a necessary companion. It was not the scout. The scout was a certain mood. I followed that mood, and let the shape of the story flow from that.
Bonnie Friedman
#3. All the guys called the Olympic Village a high-class Boy Scout camp.
Johnny Weissmuller
#4. A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.
Robert Baden-Powell
#5. You have an imperial presidency that makes Richard Nixon look like a boy scout.
Allen West
#6. The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school.
Abbe Pierre
#7. Scout out competitors' websites. Everything your competitors think is important or relevant usually exists on their website.
John Manning
#8. He looked at me. "If I were a creek, I would be where the ground slopes."
"Right." Sometimes it was good to have an Indian scout.
Craig Johnson
#9. His eldest sister (who modestly prefers to be identified here as a Tuckahoe homemaker) has asked me to describe him as looking like 'the blue-eyed Jewish-Irish Mohican scout who died in your arms at the roulette table at Monte Carlo.
J.D. Salinger
#10. Actually, as that first association continued, we got a little more legitimate. In those days, they asked Boy Scout troops to act as ushers during the football games. So we signed up and I went to many games in full Boy Scout uniform as an usher.
Daniel J. Evans
#11. The Ten Commandments, for example, were no more challenging than the Girl Scout oath, and why should anyone be tempted to put one false god ahead of another?
Barbara Ehrenreich
#12. A scout troop consists of twelve little kids dressed like schmucks following a big schmuck dressed like a kid.
Jack Benny
#13. I was scouted at a Cure concert. A model scout approached me there and asked me if I modeled, and I thought that was ludicrous.
Shalom Harlow
#14. Like Scout and her father in To Kill a Mockingbird, my father would pull me onto his lap each night in our four-room apartment and read aloud.
Jim Trelease
#15. Hustling sex for cash ain't dangerous if you learn the tricks quick, and that means puttin' yourself in a different mindset. Always scout for an exit for when you need it. Act confident and tough and you won't get hurt. Being scared or nervous will get you cut up and stuffed in a fuckin' bag.
Jon Michaelsen
#17. In a thousand words I can have the Lord's Prayer, the 23rd Psalm, the Hippocratic Oath, a sonnet by Shakespeare, the Preamble to the Constitution, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and almost all of the Boy Scout Oath. Now exactly what picture were you planning to trade for all that?
Roy H. Williams
#18. The qualifications for being a Scout seemed to be a shocking level of physical endurance, a complete disregard for mortal danger, and some knowledge of how to exist in a space suit. All of them were Russian.
Neal Stephenson
#19. He was full of weird, chipper energy, like an overcaffeinated Cub Scout leader.
Ransom Riggs
#21. Zane clapped his hand over Ty's mouth. "Just ... don't jinx it this time."
Ty raised his hand in a silent promise.
"That's the Girl Scout pledge, Ty.
Abigail Roux
#22. Songwriting never feels like it's me doing anything consciously except for becoming aware somehow that it's time to let something out, or let something in, depending on how you look at it.
Scout Niblett
#23. I've never thought to notate my songs ... I tend to just have to remember them.
Scout Niblett
#24. I believe in miracles. At the age of 13, I was on holiday in Moscow with my mother. It was the only trip I took in my whole childhood. We stepped off a metro train and were approached by a talent scout who told me that she wanted to sign me to her modeling agency.
Olga Kurylenko
#25. Thus we came to know Dill as a pocket Merlin, whose head teemed with eccentric plans, strange longings, and quaint fancies - Scout
Harper Lee
#26. Everybody owned stock in the Capone mob; in a way, he was a public benefactor. I remember one time when he arrived at his box seat in Dyche Stadium for a Northwestern football game on Boy Scout Day, and 8,000 scouts got up in the stands and screamed in cadence, 'Yea, yea, Big Al. Yea, yea, Big Al.'
Saul Alinsky
#27. I was a Scout years ago, before the movement started, when my father took me fishing, camping and hunting. Then I was sorry that more girls could not have what I had. When I learned of the movement, I thought, here is what I always wanted other girls to have.
Lou Henry Hoover
#28. Can you just tell them we don't need Jesus, Girl Scout cookies, or whatever the Mormons worship, and let me lie here in peace?
Lish McBride
#29. He was more p***ed off by us playing a game of who could think up the worst nickname for him."
"Let me guess, you won?"
"It was Boy Scout, actually. I mean, come on. Even I couldn't top Chubby Chubby Choo Choo.
Alexandra Bracken
#30. As a teenager, I was very much a people pleaser and that excludes being adventuresome at all. I was a Boy Scout though and so that's as adventuresome as I got.
Rob Corddry
#31. I was not a Girl Scout, but I try to be very prepared. I triple-Spanx!
Octavia Spencer
#32. How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick.
Joseph Campbell
#33. It took me a sleeve of Girl Scout Thin Mints and forty minutes to get over that boy.
John Green
#34. Lils, you've barely even planned Sneak yet. Give it time. He'll get there."
"He did ask me out on Saturday."
"OMG, you two are totally getting married and having a litter of babies. Ooh, what if that's literally true?"
-Scout and Lily about werewolf Jason
Chloe Neill
#35. Being a Boy Scout saved my life. I was a bookish, introverted kid, shy and withdrawn, unhappy and easily bullied. I was also gay, although I didn't know it yet. I should've been miserable. But being a scout got me out of myself and into the world.
Christopher Bram
#36. I'm not quite sure which scout troop Heath belonged to, but it certainly wasn't the "I will totally honor my previous promise of no hanky-panky in the shower" troop.
Victoria Laurie
#38. My first book deal was actually for a textbook - 'Judo and You' - that I wrote while teaching at Temple University. A scout for Kendall-Hunt came looking for someone to write the book, and even though it wasn't a course I was teaching there, I agreed to write it.
Jonathan Maberry
#39. I give myself time with a guitar and PA to let my subconscious do its thing. This happens repeatedly over a period of time, and slowly, a set of songs emerge that make some sort of sense to me as a body of work that turns into an album.
Scout Niblett
#40. I think as a scout you have to pick. It is harder. You have to talk and explain that this is not just about standing one-dimensionally in front of a camera.
Michael Flutie
#41. I think if I produced a show I would not want to be part of that production. That's not ... I'm not ... I mean, I couldn't even sell Boy Scout chocolate bars when I was a kid!
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
#42. Most people surrendered fairy tale hopes in exchange for cookie cutter lives
Roy L. Pickering Jr.
#43. Around the opposite sex, especially back then, my tongue twisted into knots even a Boy Scout would walk away from
Jay Asher
#44. I tend to play covers when I'm gearing up for creating new song. Singing other people's songs is a way that I get inspired.
Scout Niblett
#45. I promise to shoot anything, human or monster, that threatens me while I'm gone'. He made the Boy Scout sign, three fingers to heaven. 'You can bail me out of jail and explain that i was just following orders'.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#46. His fierce appreciation of female beauty, the unrelenting desire he felt for their company, the pleasure he both derived and sought to give, had led him in and out of quite a few bedroom doors.
Roy L. Pickering Jr.
#47. How do you do it?" I asked. "You had five minutes to get ready."
"Always prepared." Vee shot me a grin. "I'm a Boy Scout's dream.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#48. I thought she was going to spit in it, which was the only reason anybody in Maycomb held out his hand: it was a time-honored method of sealing oral contracts. Wondering what bargain we had made, I turned to the class for an answer, but the class looked back at me in puzzlement.
Harper Lee
#49. Jen and I were accustomed to our father's last-will-and-testament diction, and were at times free to interrupt Atticus for a translation when it was beyond our understanding.
Harper Lee
#50. It's a lot cleaner when Command kills you on purpose ... than when they do it by accident.
Henry V. O'Neil
#51. Their chemistry at the Tavern had nearly set the place on fire. And she hadn't missed that tent situation under his pants earlier - an entire Boy Scout troop could've camped under there.
Elle Kennedy
#52. Prince Ahmad crouched over the headless body, the scout at his side. "you say a mere priest bested you?"
"He weilded his sword like a master. I never saw such a display."
The prince mocked the soldier. "Then let us pray we don't meet the Pope.
Galen Watson
#53. He slid her a look, and she held up her hand in a solemn vow, making him smile. "Were you a Girl Scout?" he asked.
"Not even a little bit," she said.
-Matt and Amy
Jill Shalvis
#54. My name is Markowski. I carry a badge. Also a crucifix, some wooden stakes, a big vial of holy water, and a 9mm Beretta loaded with silver bullets.
I was never a Boy Scout but "Be Prepared" is still a good motto to live by. Especially if you plan to keep living.
Justin Gustainis
#55. I love just being passionate about something rather than just caring about the money or whos in the movie.
Scout Taylor-Compton
#56. And you would not Shift into a Fox, noti in a box, not wearing sock?
Scout
Tammy Blackwell
#57. Esperanza's side had so many colors, Crayola sent a scout.
Harlan Coben
#58. As your trusted Indian scout, it is important for me to warn you that you are now on perilously thin ice
Craig Johnson
#59. One of the first duties of a Scout is obedience to authority. He must obey his orders in the first place and put his own amusement or desires in the second.
Robert Baden-Powell
#60. Older Scout: [narrating] Neighbors bring food with death, and flowers with sickness, and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a knife, and our lives.
Harper Lee
#61. All kidding aside, this is a new beginning for Kate and me. A fresh start. I'll be a perfect
gentleman. Scout's honor.
Then again, I never was a Boy Scout.
Emma Chase
#62. First of all," he said, "if you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view
until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.
Harper Lee
#63. And although he recognized that tenderness was not the same as passion, and certainly not equivalent to love, for now it seemed to him a suitable substitute.
Roy L. Pickering Jr.
#64. I think the only time I doubted myself was my senior year in high school. I was not offered a Division I scholarship. I remember a scout from Ohio State coming in and looking at my film. He was all excited to meet me. Then he met me and I was 5'10 and he said that I was not a Division I quarterback.
Doug Flutie
#65. I still remember the entire Boy Scout motto. I don't remember the serial number of my gun in the army. I don't remember the number of my locker in school. But I remember that Boy Scout code.
Tommy Lasorda
#66. I think I'd rather be heading to detention right now than to talk to him. My stomach is tied up in so many knots it could make a boy scout envious.
Colleen Hoover
#68. All the homeschooling parents I know meet on a regular basis with other families. They organize field trips, cooking classes, reading clubs and Scout troops. Their children tend to be happy, confident and socially engaged.
Quinn Cummings
#69. I loved practical jokes. I loved being goofy on the playground, and I loved doing silly cartoons, but I was not this subversive little delinquent. I am an Eagle Scout, after all.
Steve Breen
#70. Something tells me you were never a Girl Scout.
Gwenda Bond
#71. So my name is Scout. Yeah, my mom read To Kill a Mockingbird. Leave it to her to think 5th grade required reading is totally deep.
Catherynne M Valente
#73. How did Mike Bibby get on the team? Any Cub Scout with Boy Scouts can do Boy Scoutish things. When Bibby was in the Cub Scouts, he was a Cub Scout. When he was with Vancouver, nobody heard about him. Now that he's with Sacramento ... he's on the team. I ain't going.
Shaquille O'Neal
#74. About guns, about hunting, it's safe to say I know nothing. The last gun I fired was a musket at Boy Scout camp.
Rosecrans Baldwin
#75. So you can go down there and see the gods, sell Girl Scout cookies door-to-door or whatever?
Rick Riordan
#76. What do you think it's worth, Lassiter, finding and returning the priceless heritage of a nation?" "How about a Boy Scout merit badge and a thank-you note from Yeltsin?" Above us,
Paul Levine
#77. I was racking up prescription slips like Boy Scout badges. What didn't I have?
Jason Diamond
#78. There's a lot of stuff I want to do, just things that I want to explore that don't involve show business. I'm going to become a television critic. Can you imagine? But I would even consider becoming a baseball scout. Traveling around the heartland looking for the next world-beating phenom.
Charlie Sheen
#79. I'd rather strive for the kind of interview where instead of me asking to introduce myself to society, society asks me to introduce myself to society.
Criss Jami
#80. I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
Harper Lee
#81. I feel like I've always been doubted or slighted. Let's be honest. When you're a walk-on, you don't start for a No. 1 team, a national championship contender. You just don't. A walk-on is a guy who plays scout team, who's just happy to be on the team.
Clay Matthews III
#82. Wild Bill was a strange character, add to this figure a costume blending the immaculate neatness of the dandy with the extravagant taste and style of a frontiersman, you have Wild Bill, the most famous scout on the Plains.
George Armstrong Custer
#83. I'm just open to doing all different kinds of movies. I have a movie called Scout coming out and it's a coming of age story. [] I have a very small role in it, but it was really fun to make and really light, but I do want darker roles.
Shelley Hennig
#84. I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
Carl Barks
#85. As a ballplayer, (Dizzy) Dean was a natural phenomenon, like the Grand Canyon or the Great Barrier Reef. Nobody ever taught him baseball and he never had to learn. He was just doing what came naturally when a scout named Don Curtis discovered him on a Texas sandlot and gave him his first contract.
Red Smith
#86. Frank Rich, Paul Krugman, Maureen Dowd, a whole host of brilliant, courageous critics say all kinds of things, and he [Barack Obama] treats them with respect. They get invited to the White House. I say the same thing, he talks to me like I'm a Cub Scout.
Cornel West
#87. Few ground rules: If you've killed someone, I'm calling the cops. If you are dealing drugs, I'm calling the cops. If you are wanting me to buy Girl Scout cookies, I'm calling the cops. Anything else, I'll help you with.
J.C. Nelson
#88. Since I make my living as a literary journalist, not a book scout, I spend inordinate amounts of time either reading or writing.
Michael Dirda
#89. I must have slept a long time, for when I was punched awake the room was dim with the light of the setting moon. "Move over, Scout." "He thought he had to." I mumbled. "Don't stay mad with him." Dill got in bed beside me. "I ain't," he said. "I just wanted to sleep with you.
Harper Lee
#90. I took the swab using the collection kit that I'd borrowed from Dominic who, I realized, had left the Boy Scout scale behind and was now verging on Batman levels of crazy preparedness.
Ben Aaronovitch
#91. Vigorous Scout games are the best form of physical education because most of them bring in moral education.
Baden Powell De Aquino
#92. The southern edge of town. Tim was a liver-colored bird dog, the pet of Maycomb. "What's he doing?" "I don't know, Scout. We better go home.
Harper Lee
#93. I actually like snakes! When I was young, I was a boy scout nature camp counselor, and one of our projects was collecting snakes and creating an environment for them, so I'm quite familiar with snakes and think they're fantastic creatures.
Harrison Ford
#94. Who was this criminal mastermind behind Silk Road? Not at all whom you would expect. Ross Ulbricht was the kind of kid any parent would be proud of, an Eagle Scout from Austin, Texas, who had earned a master's degree in science and engineering.
Marc Goodman
#95. Scout, if there's ever anything that happens to you or something - you know - something you might not want to tell Atticus about - "
"Huh?"
"You know, if you get in trouble at school or anything
you just let me know. I'll take care of you.
Harper Lee
#96. God never slams a door in your face without opening a box of Girl Scout cookies.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#97. Are you in the military?"
"No, I'm a grad student. I used to be a boy scout, if that helps.
Anna Durand
#98. In assisting his 'neighbour' every day to the best of his ability, and keeping truth, honesty, and kindness perpetually before him, the Boy Scout, with as little formality as possible, is pleasing God.
Robert Baden-Powell
#99. A novelist is like a scout commissioned to go and see what is happening in the depth of the soul. He comes back and reports what he has observed. He never lives on the surface but only inhabits the darkest regions
Julien Green
#100. Flout 'em, and scout 'em; and scout 'em, and flout 'em; / Thought is free.
William Shakespeare
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