Scutter Quotes

#1. We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scutter.

P. J. O'Rourke

#2. I try to create characters that I am fascinated by on some level or intrigued by or can't stand.

Terry McMillan

#3. If every effect of any new products or methods were required to be known before they could be produced and marketed, they would not be true innovations - and thus not represent new knowledge of what people would like, if offered.

Edmund Phelps

#4. The plural of anecdote is not data.

Marc Bekoff

#5. If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more.

John Templeton

#6. The hero is the person who's afraid to run away.

Saul Williams

#7. Clovis believed that if a lie was worth telling it was worth telling well.

Saki

#8. I always wanted to make an album, but I knew that I didn't want it to be a musical theater album. It's not that I don't love them - I own every musical theater album ever made - but it just didn't seem right for me.

Megan Hilty

#9. Power doesn't just exist. It is threaded through different mechanisms of control. I'm interested in those complexities. But I want to address that in very forthright language and sometimes with images.

Barbara Kruger

#10. I decided to grow my hair out during college, and it's kind of stuck ever since. Even when I thought about cutting it or trimming it, common sense kicks in, and I don't think the fans would recognize me; people wouldn't know who I am. It would almost be like Santa Claus losing his powers.

Clay Matthews III

#11. The essential characteristic of the first half of the twentieth century is the growing weakness, and almost the disappearance, of the idea of value.

Simone Weil

#12. Do whatever makes you happy. Whatever makes you happy is good, right and holy. Your happiness is the only measuring rod. Your happiness is the only truth. Everything else is false.

His Holiness Divas

#13. I wanted to walk beside this man for a long time, and to do that I'd have to be able to be completely myself.

Karen Marie Moning

#14. One common behavior of late Stage 3 [in the process of a company's decline] is when those in power blame other people or external factors- or otherwise explain away the data- rather than confront the frightening reality that the enterprise may be in serious trouble.

Susan Collins

#15. I had lost too much of the heart and all the faith needed to stay afloat in a job where every human encounter felt like an anvil strung around my neck just when I thought I was nearing the shore.

Dinaw Mengestu