Daftness Quotes & Sayings

He's never quite got the trick of conversation, tending to hear in dissenting views, however mild, a kind of affront, an invitation to mortal combat. — Ian McEwan

We would grow tired of it, Grandpa, if it were beautiful all the time. A little change from night to night is good for us.'

'For you, because you're young, Wanda. You have many, many evenings ahead of you. I don't. I want more good ones. — Isaac Asimov

We must teach our children to get 'EXCITED' about life and the World around them,instead of 'painting' their minds with OUR potrayal of 'how' the World is...children learn from 'emulating' their elders,not by being told...which asks US to 'live' that excitement.If we do not live that way then LEARN it and pass it on to our children..We will be doing them a HUGE FAVOR! — Abha Maryada Banerjee

He must hate me, or he would have let me die. — George R R Martin

When I opted to work with you, I didn't expect to live a danger-free life full of roses. It was my choice that took me to where I am now. — Shaine Lake

Those trying to explain pictures are as a rule completely mistaken. — Pablo Picasso

He had a bright, reckless tenor that was always wandering off, looking for notes in the wrong places. — Patrick Rothfuss

Mother once told me that one had to lower one's head when passing under low eaves in order to avoid injury. — Anchee Min

You're really doing well, it's the satisfaction you get from school, it's love," Lila said to me, and I felt that she was a little sad. — Elena Ferrante

Press conference [on the movie Carrington] yielded the usual crop of daftness. I've been asked if I related personally to Carrington's tortured relationship with sex and replied that no, not really, I'd had a very pleasant time since I was fifteen. This elicited very disapproving copy from the Brits ... No wonder people think we don't have sex in England. — Emma Thompson

Jokes in the face of calamity made one feel dirty, guilty; they also dissolved the fear and lessened the weight of uncertainty, of which there was to much to bear. — Elif Shafak

Social ties are the cheapest medicine we have. — Shelley E. Taylor

I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker. — Armand Assante

Going into the woods, is going home — John Muir