The Scatter Here Is Too Great Quotes

#1. Documentary filmmaking ruins you for real life, because you learn to be extremely attentive.

Frederick Wiseman

#2. Every glass thermometer has subtle variations in the size and shape of the bulb at the bottom and the capillary tube inside, as well as variations in the width of gradations on the side. The compounded effect of these uncertainties is that each thermometer reads temperature slightly differently.

Sam Kean

#3. Each one of us is the architect of his own fate; and he is unfortunate indeed who will try to build himself without the inspiration of God, without realizing that he grows from within, not from without.

David O. McKay

#4. During the dot-com days, one could take just about any company public and reap fortunes. All you had to do was to make sky-high projections for growth, say you were in the Internet space, and go along with unscrupulous investment bankers and their analysts.

Vivek Wadhwa

#5. When I decided to take writing seriously, I did a lot of reading and analyzing of the books I liked, and came up with what I thought were pretty sound plotting and structure basics.

George Stephen

#6. Scatter?' Tate said. 'Why? We stay here. Why go anywhere else?'
'Because we'll never know how great this place is until we leave it,' Narnie said.

Melina Marchetta

#7. To America's founders, China was a source of inspiration. They saw it as a harmonious society with officials chosen on merit, where the arts and philosophy flourished, and the peasantry labored happily on the land.

John Pomfret

#8. My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.

Barack Obama

#9. Ty: Your duffelbag is probably full of things you stole from the Institute.
Kit: It ... might be. What's that got to do with you, anyway? None of it's yours.
Ty: I want to solve crimes. To be a detective. But nobody here cares about that sort of thing.

Cassandra Clare

#10. Out of 30 years of Second City I was probably the third African-American with the main stage cast. I was surprised when I first heard that. I think part of the reason that improvisation has never been popular with African-Americans is that it isn't popular in the inner cities.

Tim Meadows

#11. When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.

Jules Verne