Scoping Out Quotes

#1. I watch a lot of TV, but I find that recently it's largely oddball stuff ... Scripted stuff sometimes feels like homework, like I'm scoping out the competition or something.

Jane Espenson

#2. That's Denver Beck, isn't it? Paul mentioned him. What's he like?" Ori asked.
"Oh, where do I start? Beck's mouthy and he lives to tell me what to do." In short, he's so not you. "Why do you want to know?"
A glimmer appeared in Ori's dark eyes.
"Just scoping out the competition.

Jana Oliver

#3. I wish you could see some of the girls I have genuinely had crushes on in my life. They're not the girls you would assume.

Chris Evans

#4. If ever it's necessary to ride the bandwagon, it's done with one leg swinging out and eyes scoping the fields.

Criss Jami

#5. I started watching actual movies when I was pretty young.

Charlie Tahan

#6. My problem stemmed from not forgiving myself.

Shannon A. Thompson

#7. Culture has become one of the last elements of our identity. We have to act in favor of cultural diversity abroad as well as at home, we need strong cultural diplomacy but we have to create it.

Frederic Martel?

#8. I love to fantasize still, as I did as a little boy. If I see a movie, I want to fantasize about what it's all about.

Peter Stormare

#9. Wouldn't he know without being asked?' said Polly.
'I've no doubt he would,' said the Horse (still with his mouth full). 'But I've a sort of an idea he likes to be asked.

C.S. Lewis

#10. The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.

Larry Wall

#11. I live and die with the Indians. The first game I attended back in the mid-'90s was almost a religious experience. We were down by six and won by two, and it was glorious. The stadium is so beautiful, and the way it frames the city when you're sitting high above the second base line is spectacular.

Mary Doria Russell

#12. On the sly, scoping for love.

Aretha Franklin

#13. Those that believe this is merely a downturn are mad. Our industry is going to mature and as something matures, the rate of innovation does slow.

Larry Ellison

#14. Depression is the reward we get for being 'good'.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#15. My best sources are my travels and my collection of National Geographic.

Sergio Aragones

#16. It's the natural trajectory of a writing career that a writer becomes better at being herself.

Amy Hempel

#17. The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity is of wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin and more exquisitely refined than either.

William Jones

#18. Don't give me the evil eye. You were the one about to star in an X-rated porno flick.-Phineas

Kerrelyn Sparks

#19. An artist who painted a face was now 'playing with the idea of portraiture,' or 'exploring push-pull aesthetics,' or toying with contradictions like 'menacing-slash-playful,' but he or she was never, ever, just painting a face.

Steve Martin

#20. The first time I read the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, my instinctive reaction was, so what's wrong with THAT? Isn't that the way any master plan should work? Doesn't the public deserve - nay, demand - such despotism?

Anton Szandor LaVey

#21. I love leather and it's great to be a bad girl at times. But there is a time and place for everything. When I'm with Grandma it's flowers, and when I'm out on the town scoping guys, you know ...

Eliza Dushku