Schott Quotes & Sayings

I'm a firm believer in thinking inside the box. The first thing I do when approaching a new project is to give myself rigid guidelines and precise limits. That's how I begin to think. If I were told that I could create anything in any medium, using any amount of space and any amount of time, I'd stand in a field and scream. — Ben Schott

I always wanted to be a photographer. While I was at school, I got a lab-monkey holiday job in the darkrooms at the 'Independent.' What they taught me there was: you need to get the whole story in one frame. — Ben Schott

It's only money, honey. — Marge Schott

When you don't have kids and you're in a Catholic family - one of my sisters had 10 children in 11 years - she's part rabbit - you feel kind of guilty about that. So, I want to do things for other people's children. — Marge Schott

If people knew how powerful books were, they'd all have one in their hand or a tablet loaded full of e-books, just like me! — Terry Schott

15 p Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, 16 p making the best use of the time, because q the days are evil. 17Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what r the will of the Lord is. 18And s do not get drunk with wine, for that is t debauchery, but u be filled with the Spirit, 19addressing one another in v psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart, 20 w giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father x in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, 21 y submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ. — Anonymous

The radio's pretty much always on, and I also listen to some American podcasts, such as for 'National Public Radio' and 'Newsweek'. — Ben Schott

Charlie and I were never blessed with children. — Marge Schott

I never read articles about my books. — Ben Schott

A man needs an allegiance. He must have a cause and an identity that lays claim over him and compels him to pick up a plow to cultivate it or a sword to defend it. — Cliff Graham

I have the luxury of getting up quite late, so I hardly ever set an alarm clock. — Ben Schott

I don't like the designated hitter. A guy who plays should be able to catch and hit. — Marge Schott

The dog lives here, Pete. You're just visiting. — Marge Schott

Writing 'Schottenfreude' has reinforced the fact that there are few, if any, emotions that have not been experienced, and analyzed, by some of the world's greatest writers. — Ben Schott

For me, writing is like being taken on a walk by a footnote: It's amazing where you end up. — Ben Schott

A great deal of American T.V. viewed on Hulu, which is superb - '30 Rock', for instance, is on very good form. — Ben Schott

I read the papers online, and something usually piques my curiosity - that will then be the baseline of my research for the day. — Ben Schott

Hitler was good in the beginning, but he went too far. — Marge Schott

Anything you say from your heart to God is a prayer. But "why" is rarely a useful question. When Job keeps asking God why he has had such loss and suffering, God says, "You wouldn't understand." I always want to know why, and I almost never have a good answer. — Anne Lamott

Sometimes the opposite of loss is loss. — Penelope Scambly Schott

Words themselves are neutral. It's the charge we add to them that matters — Pema Chodron

If I'm researching something strange and rococo, I'll go to the London Library or the British Library and look it up in books. — Ben Schott

I spend a lot of time looking at rococo books. And almanacs used to be huge sellers - they were pretty much part of the fabric of life. I thought, this is bizarre, I'd love to buy a book like this, and there isn't one. So I thought, all right then, this could be fun. I'll write an almanac. — Ben Schott

I have always loved the fluidity of language - delighting in dialects, dictionaries, slang and neologisms. — Ben Schott

all that he has, and he will sing a different tune!" (1:10-11, paraphrased). — Lee A. Schott

The web can be a fast trip to the library, giving you immediate access to a government report, or it can filter media for you, which is why I look at around 15- 20 of these sites every day. — Ben Schott

Animals do not betray; they do not exploit; they do not oppress; they do not enslave; they do not sin. They have their being, and their being is honest, and who can say this of man? — Taylor Caldwell

I follow blogs, particularly all the main political ones - Guido Fawkes, Iain Dale, Coffee House, Paul Waugh, Iain Martin in the Wall Street Journal, and so on. And some American ones, like the Huffington Post, Gawker, Boing Boing; or Eater and Daily Candy, also American, which are about where to go to eat. — Ben Schott

For me, photography only stopped because I was selling books. — Ben Schott

I have a few friends who still moan that paper is the only way to read a book, but I'd rather have fifty or a hundred novels in a compact tablet than have to worry about lugging around that many books." "Until the power goes out." Ivan shrugged. "When that happens, I won't have time to read." Loredana — Terry Schott

The idea that I am cynical because I'm writing the books that I write is a bit like someone saying, 'What, you've done a second album? Oh, I see, cashing in on your first album, are you?' But I'm a musician! It's sort of what I do. — Ben Schott

Kids used to tease me unmercifully about that name. — Marge Schott

Aunts are discreet, a little shy / By instinct. They forbear to pry ... — Phyllis McGinley

I'm very fond of an old map of London that used to belong to my father. I'm a big London fan, and the evolution of the city is astonishing, when you look back to Pepys and how small it was - everyone knew each other. — Ben Schott

I looked at my father and looked at those dry fields [in Malawi]. It was the future I couldn't accept. — William Kamkwamba