Fatuously Quotes & Sayings

As a cop, I dealt with every kind of bum and criminal. They all have more integrity than some Hollywood people. — Joseph Wambaugh

What was more humiliating, I wondered: having to beg for someone's cold chicken bones or being offered them? — Walter Kirn

A fight is a fight. And life is a fight. No matter how many fights you have under your belt, it will continue to be a learning experience. And you can never prepare yourself for every scenario. Awkward, odd, and difficult situations will always present themselves. You just have to stay cool and work through them. — Erik Apple

In life, change is inevitable. In business, change is vital. — Warren G. Bennis

My life, between 22 yards for 24 years ... It's hard to imagine that this is coming to an end. — Sachin Tendulkar

I think I land somewhere between Scorsese and Capra in what I'm drawn to emotionally; I'm drawn to very intense emotion. Capra freaked people out when they saw Jimmy Stewart lose it in 'It's a Wonderful Life.' — David O. Russell

What's this place called?' He told me and, on the instant, it was as though someone had switched off the wireless, and a voice that had been bawling in my ears, incessently, fatuously for days beyond number, had suddenly been cut short; an immense silence followed, empty at first, but gradually, as my outraged sense regained authority, full of a multitude of sweet and natural and long forgotten sounds: for he had spoken a name so familiar to me, a conjuror's name of such ancient power, that, at its mere sound, the phantoms of those haunted late years began to take flight. — Evelyn Waugh

There is an interesting point about the price of success: It must always be paid in full-and in advance. Everyone wants to be successful. Everyone wants to be healthy, happy, thin, and rich. But most people are not willing to pay the price. — Brian Tracy

Psych yourself up until you're confident that the world will be interested in what happens to your characters. Confidence is key. — Deborah Moggach

A reporter asked Barth what was the single most important theological discovery he'd made. After stopping to consider his answer carefully, Barth said, "Jesus loves me. This I know, for the Bible tells me so." Indeed, we can never outgrow that one great, majestic, and simple transforming truth. — Mark Driscoll

So I came from an environment where I was starved for information, starved for connection. — Marc Andreessen

The numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world. — John Maynard Keynes

Beautiful are the words, that can express the innermost thoughts. — Alok Jagawat

This must be madness! — Margaret Sutton

Creativity is the antidote to destruction. — Trey Anastasio

Beavers bred in captivity, inhabiting a concrete pool, will, if given the timber, fatuously go through all the motions of damming an ancestral stream. — Evelyn Waugh

In the 1950s, America had picked up the globe by the heels and shaken the change from its pockets. Europe had become a poor cousin - all crests and no table settings. And the indistinguishable countries of Africa, Asia, and South America had just begun skittering across our schoolroom walls like salamanders in the sun. True, — Amor Towles

Weary looked at him and shook his head and put the tailgate up and drove down the gravel towards the bivouac, carrying two drunks, who both fatuously imagined, that once in a dream somewhere, sometime, someplace, they had managed for a moment to touch another human soul and understand it. — James Jones