Scutter Quotes & Sayings

You were never really my father, he might say, or You were the only father I ever knew. Both statements were equally true, no matter how contradictory. When — Cassandra Clare

Every student should know that statues are meant for sitting. If we're to endure their terrible old faces leering at us, the least they can do is offer shade or a comfortable perch.
Nigel Bristow to Max McDaniels — Henry H. Neff

We are the owls of the weather chaw. We take it blistering, We take it all. Roiling boiling gusts, We're the owls with the guts. For blizzards our gizzards Dr tremble with joy. An ice storm, a gale, how we love blinding hail. We fly forward and backward, Upside down and flat. Do we flinch? Do we wail? Do we skitter or scutter? No, we yarp one more pellet And fly straight for the gutter! Do we screech? Do we scream? Do we gurgle? Take pause? Not on your life! For we are the best Of the best of the chaws! — Kathryn Lasky

If we marry we stay too poor to educate, and when we educate, it would be too late to enjoy the life. — M.F. Moonzajer

We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scutter. — P. J. O'Rourke

I'm definitely not an outsider artist. I'm very much an insider artist. I get written about in art magazines, and I'm not, like, in a mental institution. I'm a regular guy who went to art school. — David Shrigley

So yes, I knew how to dance. I just wasn't able to look at the person I was dancing with. A sort of glass cage fell over me, in the form of a distant, distracted smile. — Katie Crouch

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination. — Nelson Mandela

Faith, culture, structure and guidance are good things. — Bethenny Frankel

Quezovercoatl squirmed. The King swiveled the throne back and forth a bit. "Now, I want you to go straight back down there and tell them you're sorry," he said. "Pardon?" "Tell them you've changed your mind. Tell them that what you really wanted them to do was strive day and night to improve the lot of their fellow men. It'll be a winner. — Terry Pratchett

She was twenty-eight but already jaded. Twenty-eight seemed a particularly unsatisfactory age. She was no longer young and yet no one ever seemed to take her seriously as an adult. People still told her what to do all the time, it was infuriating. Her only power seemed to be over her own children and even that was limited by endless negotiation. — Kate Atkinson

The worst sort of clever men are those who know better than the Bible. — Charles Spurgeon

The secret to living your life to its potential is to value the important stuff above your own comfort. Therefore, the critical first step to executing well is creating and maintaining a compelling vision of the future that you want even more than you desire your own short-term comfort, and then aligning your shorter term goals and plans, with that long-term vision. — Brian P. Moran

Her hair was a flyaway mess, and her cheeks, she knew, would be a little too red for dignity - but she often had to choose between dignity and living another hour. — Michelle Sagara

I've always had a feeling that the image is 50% of the emotion that an audience feels and it's subliminal. Yet, how you arrange the elements in front of a camera has an impact on people's belief about that world in some way. — Scott Hicks

A heavy object connected with the back of my head and a burst of colors detonated in my brain. I saw stars. And then black. I crumpled to the ground, my last thought being: there were two of them. — Suzanne M. Trauth