Scudder Quotes & Sayings

Standing each by his monster, they looked at each other, and smiled — E. M. Forster

I learned that sex was not a question of victory or defeat, of pleasure or profit: of a hand's manipulation and a physical response: I learned that in its purest pleasure it belongs to neither of those who practise it, in the same way as a child belongs to neither parent: it is a free spirit: it simply exists. — Fay Weldon

Focus on one thing, make it your priority, and stick with it no matter what! — Tyler Perry

The best advice I never got ... I don't know if it would have done any good, but to be more confident with girls in school. I actually had a couple of girlfriends, but I was still pretty timid and it was hard to ask girls out. — Chris Parnell

I was always nervous to play my father's [John Lennon's] songs. — Sean Lennon

An element of abstention, of restraint, must enter into all finer joys. — Vida Dutton Scudder

Reality, like beauty, is in relationship and there only. — Vida Dutton Scudder

Divine Consciousness is constantly seeking ways to express itself through us. — Sonia Choquette

In Paris there are few changes; one always finds one's niche there when one returns - no matter how long one may have been away. — Janet Scudder

I don't believe artists should be subjected to experiences that harden the sensibilities; without sensibility no fine work can ever be done. — Janet Scudder

Come on in," Elaine said. "She's already here. Pam, this is Mr. Scudder, Matthew Scudder. Matt, I'd like you to meet Pam. — Lawrence Block

There are practically an endless number of measurements which can be taken, but I came to feel that a scientist indulges in more than endless measurement. He must speculate. He must dream. He must find that which is beyond understanding." - Charles L. Scudder — Daniel Ellis

People have a way of becoming what you encourage them to be - not what you nag them to be. — Scudder Parker

Show me a man who over-elaborates and I will show you a great man! What is called their 'overelaboration' is my meat: it is the sign of struggle, it is struggle itself with all the fibers clinging to it, the very aura and ambiance of the discordant spirit. And when you show me a man who expresses himself perfectly I will not say that he is not great, but I will say that I am unattracted ... I miss the cloying qualities. When I reflect that the task which the artist implicitly sets himself is to overthrow existing values, to make of the chaos about him an order which is his own, to sow strife and ferment so that by the emotional release those who are dead may be restored to life, then it is that I run with joy to the great and imperfect ones, their confusion nourishes me, their stuttering is like divine music to my ears. — Henry Miller

I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place. — John Buchan

As a comedian you are making yourself vulnerable in order to make others happy. — Margaret Cho

Luxury, like a minimum wage, is a relationship; it changes as we change. — Vida Dutton Scudder

It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed. — Vida Dutton Scudder

Someone has said that even criticism is better than silence. I don't agree to this. Criticism can be very harmful unless it comes from a master; and in spite of the fact that we have hundreds of critics these days, it is one of the most difficult of professions. — Janet Scudder

Careful, wolf. We don't want the human to realize how much we can eat," she chuckled, talking to him with her mind. — A.O. Peart

War to win peace is at best a dangerously illogical method. — Vida Dutton Scudder

The worst danger of the mystic is as always a quest of spiritual privilege leading to aloofness from the common lot. — Vida Dutton Scudder

The suppression of war is not the equivalent of peace. — Vida Dutton Scudder

I have changed my mind. You can help cook by standing in a corner and not touching anything. Do it carefully.
-Nick to Jamie — Sarah Rees Brennan