Taming The Scotsman Quotes

#1. To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.

Jane Austen

#2. I think when you get past your second album, it all becomes something of a routine. So you have to struggle against that, find a way of making what you do sound fresh and new each time.

Van Morrison

#3. Some directors hardly talk to the actors at all.

Todd Solondz

#4. I want to hold onto this funny thing. God, it's gotten big on me. I don't know what it is. I'm so damned unhappy, I'm so mad, and I don't know why. I feel like I'm putting on weight. I feel fat. I feel like I'm saving a lot of things, and I don't know what. I might even start reading books.

Ray Bradbury

#5. I was honored to spend time with the President on an issue that is clearly important to him. I was also impressed by his wide receiver skills.

Drew Brees

#6. I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me.

Jock Sturges

#7. If Iran wants to be treated like a normal country, let it act like a normal country.

Benjamin Netanyahu

#8. Ewan had shown her ways for a man to take a woman that she wouldn't have thought possible. But never once had he hurt her.
Nay, her bear was ever tender.

Kinley MacGregor

#9. Whose heart doth hold the Christmas glow Hath little need of Mistletoe; Who bears a smiling grace of mien Need waste no time on wreaths of green; Whose lips have words of comfort spread Needs not the holly-berries red - His very presence scatters wide The spirit of the Christmastide.

John Kendrick Bangs

#10. Contrary to popular wisdom, knowledge is not power - it's potential power. Knowledge is not mastery. Execution is mastery. Execution will trump knowledge every day of the week.

Anthony Robbins

#11. A grown woman is like a coyote--she can get by on very little. Men are more like house cats. Leave them alone for too long and they'll die of sadness

Ottessa Moshfegh

#12. You've got forever; and somehow you can't do much with it. You've got forever; and it's a mile wide and an inch deep and full of alligators.

Jim Thompson

#13. There is no best, there is always a better.

Kevin Karschnik

#14. There is perhaps no surer road to peace than the one that starts from little islands and oases of genuine kindness, islands and oases constantly growing in number and being continually joined together until eventually they ring the world.

Dominique Pire