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Walter Scott Quotes

«One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.»
Author: Walter Scott
«Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.»
Author: Walter Scott
«Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim. One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.»
Author: Walter Scott
«We're in a catch-22,»
Author: Walter Scott
«We're going to come back the exact same way we left off -- as The Whispers. We do R&B music -- lyric-conscious music that speaks to the adults. That's what The Whispers are all about.»
Author: Walter Scott
«We met each other in junior high back in the '60s. Motown was in its heyday then. So we were no different than most groups in that we wanted to be like the Miracles, the Four Tops and the Temptations. But my brother Scotty and I had grown up listening to groups like the Four Freshmen. Our father was a big jazz enthusiast, too. So what you hear today is an amalgamation of all that.»
Author: Walter Scott
«As system virtualization becomes mainstream, IT managers will find a greater need for disk imaging for disaster recovery and systems deployment,»
Author: Walter Scott
«And ne'er did a Grecian chisel traceA nymph, a naiad, or a grace, Of finer form or lovelier face.»