quotes about Scotty

“People are never able to outperform their self-image.”

“Start going to bed earlier! It is a tough adjustment when you have had a summer of staying up late and waking up late.”

“There's nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.”

“It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person's lead.”

Source : Reginald Rose (1983). “Twelve angry men: a play in three acts”, Rourke Publishing

“I have a few unusual fans, as you can imagine, so I try to protect the privacy of my home life.”

“And what is more melancholy than the old apple-trees that linger about the spot where once stood a homestead, but where there is now only a ruined chimney rising our of a grassy and weed-grown cellar? They offer their fruit to every wayfarer--apples that are bitter-sweet with the moral of times vicissitude.”

“Only our company and a handful of others are poised to write the future.”

“Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!”

“Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.”

“As a doctor, as well as a mother and a world citizen, I wish to practice the ultimate form of preventive medicine by ridding the earth of these technologies that propagate disease, suffering, and death.”

Source : Helen Caldicott, Nancy Herrington, Nahum Stiskin (1982). “Nuclear madness: what you can do! : with a new chapter on Three Mile Island”, Bantam