Schott Quotes

#1. I always wanted to be a photographer. While I was at school, I got a lab-monkey holiday job in the darkrooms at the 'Independent.' What they taught me there was: you need to get the whole story in one frame.

Ben Schott

#2. The web can be a fast trip to the library, giving you immediate access to a government report, or it can filter media for you, which is why I look at around 15- 20 of these sites every day.

Ben Schott

#3. Kids used to tease me unmercifully about that name.

Marge Schott

#4. If people knew how powerful books were, they'd all have one in their hand or a tablet loaded full of e-books, just like me!

Terry Schott

#5. We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do our level best to keep up with them.

Oswald Chambers

#6. Do your best, one shot at a time and then move on. Remember that golf is just a game.

Nancy Lopez

#7. The radio's pretty much always on, and I also listen to some American podcasts, such as for 'National Public Radio' and 'Newsweek'.

Ben Schott

#8. I spend a lot of time looking at rococo books. And almanacs used to be huge sellers - they were pretty much part of the fabric of life. I thought, this is bizarre, I'd love to buy a book like this, and there isn't one. So I thought, all right then, this could be fun. I'll write an almanac.

Ben Schott

#9. The dog lives here, Pete. You're just visiting.

Marge Schott

#10. It's only money, honey.

Marge Schott

#11. My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.

Hugh Leonard

#12. Forever is only now. Let's enjoy it and not think about tomorrow.

Renee Carlino

#13. He doesn't love anyone, and maybe he never will.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#14. If I'm researching something strange and rococo, I'll go to the London Library or the British Library and look it up in books.

Ben Schott

#15. I'm very fond of an old map of London that used to belong to my father. I'm a big London fan, and the evolution of the city is astonishing, when you look back to Pepys and how small it was - everyone knew each other.

Ben Schott

#16. I love to sing. I never had any formal training. My mother is a singer, and I picked up listening to her.

Nimrat Kaur

#17. You grow and you change, or at least you think you do, but you're kind of the same.

Lennon Parham

#18. A great deal of American T.V. viewed on Hulu, which is superb - '30 Rock', for instance, is on very good form.

Ben Schott

#19. The idea that I am cynical because I'm writing the books that I write is a bit like someone saying, 'What, you've done a second album? Oh, I see, cashing in on your first album, are you?' But I'm a musician! It's sort of what I do.

Ben Schott

#20. I don't have to be here to do this, she had told herself, and then she'd let her body become whom it needed to be. Unlike

Sonali Dev

#21. I have always loved the fluidity of language - delighting in dialects, dictionaries, slang and neologisms.

Ben Schott

#22. I never read articles about my books.

Ben Schott

#23. Sometimes the opposite of loss is loss.

Penelope Scambly Schott

#24. I have the luxury of getting up quite late, so I hardly ever set an alarm clock.

Ben Schott

#25. I read the papers online, and something usually piques my curiosity - that will then be the baseline of my research for the day.

Ben Schott

#26. Charlie and I were never blessed with children.

Marge Schott

#27. For me, writing is like being taken on a walk by a footnote: It's amazing where you end up.

Ben Schott

#28. It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before ... to test yout limits ... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to stay tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossum.

Anais Nin

#29. Hitler was good in the beginning, but he went too far.

Marge Schott

#30. For me, photography only stopped because I was selling books.

Ben Schott

#31. When you don't have kids and you're in a Catholic family - one of my sisters had 10 children in 11 years - she's part rabbit - you feel kind of guilty about that. So, I want to do things for other people's children.

Marge Schott

#32. She leans forward and kisses him, not on the cheek, as she has a handful of times before, but on the lips, and Bailey knows in that moment that he will follow her anywhere. Poppet

Erin Morgenstern

#33. miles down the mountain in the morning and then making the long journey back up the hill at night. Life was hard. The townsfolk were barely literate and desperately poor and without much hope for economic betterment until word reached Roseto at the end

Malcolm Gladwell

#34. I don't like the designated hitter. A guy who plays should be able to catch and hit.

Marge Schott

#35. all that he has, and he will sing a different tune!" (1:10-11, paraphrased).

Lee A. Schott

#36. Writing 'Schottenfreude' has reinforced the fact that there are few, if any, emotions that have not been experienced, and analyzed, by some of the world's greatest writers.

Ben Schott

#37. Why can't a tree be called Pluplusch?

Hugo Ball