Scemama Quotes & Sayings

Fact is, awards shows were never really about recognizing achievement. They were a publicity ploy cooked up in the late 1920s by MGM topper Louie Mayer and his newly formed Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences which was itself, back in the day, nothing but a front organization to discourage unionizing. — John Ridley

No one ever felt sorry for a banker. — Dominic Lawson

Many think they shall not pay so dear for an error in judgment as for a sin in practice. Yea, some have such a latitude, that they fancy a man may be saved in any religion - — William Gurnall

As far as teachers are concerned, they define young geniuses as those who are bad, disrespectful, smoke at fourteen, fall in love at fifteen, can be found at sixteen hanging out in bars, read forbidden books, write scandalous essays, occasionally stare down a teacher in class, are marked in the attendance book as rebels, and are budding candidates for room-arrest. — Hermann Hesse

Granted, I think it would have been more fun to be Colossus than Shadowcat. — Jim Butcher

Were there stories I wrote along the way that were terrible clinkers? God, yes. But they were all a product of their time, and I did the best I could. — Len Wein

Maybe Violet was stricken with colorblindness, the willful inability to distinguish between white and any other color, the only infirmity Americans wished for themselves. But — Viet Thanh Nguyen

I looked in my mirror and saw, not myself, but every place I'd never been. — Emma Donoghue

Study after study shows that happiness precedes important outcomes and indicators of thriving. — Shawn Achor

You say that you don't care about age and that you're ready to push the wheelchair and hose down my bum, but how can you be sure? — Edmund White

Love and have the world. — Debasish Mridha

It is the leader's job to lead by example and enforce the values and the behaviors to set the culture for any company or work group. Show me a company in rapid decline, and I will show you someone in charge who doesn't give a _. — Beth Ramsay

Every night before bed, I rub my wife's feet. She says they're the best foot rubs on Earth. — Luke Bryan

God is continuously in action, without resting for a single moment. — Mahatma Gandhi