Vernon Scannell famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Real success and accomplishment, at whatever it is you are passionate about, requires real work. Real sacrifice. Real disappointment. Real failure. And it requires the ability to scrape your sorry ***** up off the floor, stumble to your feet, wipe the rivulets of watery drool from your face, and do it again, like an obstinate toddler running against the wall with his head in a bucket.

  • I'm sorry I ever invented the Electoral College.

  • I am sorry we promoted sexual orientation change efforts and reparative theories about sexual orientation that stigmatized parents.

  • I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.

  • I love writing, but hate starting. The page is awfully white and it says, 'You may have fooled some of the people some of the time but those days are over, Giftless. I'm not your agent and I'm not your mommy: I'm a white piece of paper. You wanna dance with me?' and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like.

  • I like auditioning! A lot of people hate it, but I like it.

  • I've got a long history of suicid in my family; the good news is it skips a generation, so, if I'm lucky, my kids will kill themselves.

  • Thou shalt not kill; but needst not strive officiously to keep alive.

  • Nine men in ten are would be suicides.

  • Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.