Scotton Quotes & Sayings

They [stag's eyes] were moist and pink, which gave then a strangely intelligent mien--kind, sad eyes that seemed to carry with them the secret wisdom of the earth. — Christopher Scotton

If we look at Abdel Nasser in Egypt as an Arab leader, he was secular. — Maajid Nawaz

Bridges would not be safer if only people who knew the proper definition of a real number were allowed to design them. — H.L. Mencken

For Arthur, words gathered in waterfall thoughts that spilled off the page into the pools of imaginaton collecting in his head. — Christopher Scotton

Time will come that all that we love, we will eventually lose, and all that we hate we will eventually face. — F. Sionil Jose

I held her and she cried into my shoulder so deeply that I could feel the sorrow from her soul blending completely and profoundly with my own. — Christopher Scotton

Finally the pieces started to make sense and I began to feel a pensive awareness of circumstances other than my own; a knowing that brings with it a kind is stillness that I didn't quite understand but accepted it for its own. — Christopher Scotton

The music comes first, like, 99 percent of the time. I come up with the basic chord structure and the melody first and then I get really obsessed with arranging, adding, and subtracting parts. The last step of the process, for me, is finding words that fit into that structure and figuring out exactly what I want to talk about. — Mikal Cronin

I'm lyrically driven, I'm not musically driven. — Mandy Patinkin

..fresh friends from completely different worlds faced with the hard shapings of truth and deceit, of right and wrong, and of the equivalent damage when high expectations and low expectations are devastatingly unmet. — Christopher Scotton

A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me. — Chevy Chase

I guess I learned that even though most people are good, they can be talked into doing bad things by one or two jerks...And I guess, people sometimes need someone who can stand up and remind them that they are good people and they know what's right. — Christopher Scotton

The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast. — Buddha

They ran past him without notice, but I paused and stood over the boy. I wanted to feel something--wanted to find some understanding in his actions; some empathy in his upbringing; at least a fragment of sympathy for the secret he carried. — Christopher Scotton

Pops smiled. "Son, the more people I meet, the less good I get at labeling them. That's a wisdom I hope you acquire. — Christopher Scotton

He looked at me with sunken eyes, unburdened by any great curiosity and ringed in gray and dark-blue shadows that logged his hard living like tree rings. — Christopher Scotton

No, he's asleep. Where's my mother? Is — Donna Tartt