Infantilizing Def Quotes & Sayings

I grew up with an impatience with the anti-scientific. So I'm a bit miffed with our current love affair with all things Eastern. If I sneeze on the set, 40 people hand me echinacea. But I'd no sooner take that than eat a pencil. Maybe that's why I took up boxing. It's my response to men in white pajamas feeling each other's chi. — Hugh Laurie

Life hath quicksands, Life hath snares! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Since spies must survive by telling lies, it can be hard to know when they are telling the truth. — Stephen Grey

It is easy to keep secrets by being honest in an ironic tone of voice. — Andrew Solomon

When I make my own videos, I am the writer, the editor, the lighting person, everything - that's why my videos are blurry. — Lilly Singh

The good stories, of course, write themselves. And somebody wants to know who are the really good writers, and how many of them there are. There aren't any. Most of the writers are likeable frauds. Some are unlikable frauds. — R.A. Lafferty

Either you will make your life work, or your life will not work. — Nathaniel Branden

Then he made love to me on a bed of rose petals. Seriously. — Kristen Ashley

India I have visited a great many times, though there is a lot about it I will never understand. — Damon Galgut

The line between pride in our work and neurotic obstinacy is a narrow one. We make our recommendations clear. But we do not grudge our clients the right to the final say. It is their money. — David Ogilvy

talking about their belief in Bitcoin's eventual success (and perhaps with a bit of angst over their skewering in The Social Network): "First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then you win. — Kashmir Hill

The economy - once a great scatter of small productive units in autonomous balance, has become dominated by two or three hundred giant corporations, administratively and politically interrelated ... The political order, once a decentralized set of several dozen states with a weak spinal cord, has become a centralized executive establishment which has taken up into itself many powers previously scattered ... The military order, once a slim establishment in a context of distrust fed by state militia, has become the largest and most expensive feature of government. — C. Wright Mills

A life without tragedy would not be worth living. We — Edward Abbey

The individual who is the servant of technique must be completely unconscious of himself. — Jacques Ellul

Me as president would not be like anybody else as president. Everyone does the job differently. — Dan Shechtman