Scanted Quotes

#1. What Time hath scanted men in hair, he hath given them in wit.

William Shakespeare

#2. Simon would not want to audition in front of Simon.

Paula Abdul

#3. When I was in high school, I didn't feel like I had to pile on the APs in order to look good to colleges. High-achieving classmates didn't use private tutors.

Alexandra Robbins

#4. What excellent fools religion makes of men.

Ben Jonson

#5. I write when the urge hits me, getting the words down as fast as I can type and then I step back from what I just wrote and start a dialectical process where I begin challenging my own writing.

Donald McKay

#6. Just saying. Nobody puts my piranha in the corner

C.J. Duggan

#7. If what a person wants is his life, he tends to be quiet about wanting anything else. Once the life begins to seem secure, one feels the freedom to complain.

Ann Patchett

#8. There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.

Theodore White

#9. Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

Thomas Hobbes

#10. If you're going to plan a wedding, then a certain amount of suffering is not a choice.

Ellie Kemper

#11. It's way too easy to get used to losing, it does something small to you.

Mark Anthony Jarman

#12. It's important for all people, and not just people in bands, to speak out on social justice issues. That means journalists or plumbers have just as much of a responsibility to do that as artists.

Serj Tankian

#13. However noble their purpose, we must beware of institutionalized methods that indoctrinate and regiment and fashion every Christian into a common evangelistic mold.

Richard Halverson

#14. I fear for my books.

Jose Rizal

#15. Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power.

Sun Ra

#16. I shake my head at my friend. "Not only is they lines, but you know good as I do where them lines be drawn." Aibileen shakes her head. "I used to believe in em. I don't anymore. They in our heads. People like Miss Hilly is always trying to make us believe they there. But they ain't.

Kathryn Stockett