Loutish Sort Quotes & Sayings

You know, a documentary is only interesting once in a while. If you look at a whole book of Dorothea [Lange]'s where she has row after row of people bending over and digging out carrots - that can be very tedious. And so it's only once in a while that something happens that is worth doing. — Imogen Cunningham

Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist. — Lawrence Durrell

Simple and sincere account of his own life, and not merely what he has heard of other men's lives; — Henry David Thoreau

As a slow-witted human being I have a very small head and I had better learn to live with it and to respect my limitations and give them full credit, rather than to try to ignore them, for the latter vain effort will be punished by failure. — Edsger Dijkstra

And yet, if we don't, first and foremost, act responsibly with the national tax dollars that we have, we can't properly address those regional priorities that we would like to. — Melissa Bean

He spoke with a raven's voice, old and wise and far above the cruelty of the human race. — Alice Hoffman

I had my yob periods. Nothing violent but certainly loutish. I think it's frustrated intelligence. Imagine that if you were really intelligent and everyone treated you as though you were stupid and no one tried to teach you anything
the sort of deep subliminal rage that would get going in you. But then once it gets going, you make a strength out of what you know is your weakness, which is that you are undeveloped. — Martin Amis

Joe and Jojo and I had lovely day together. I love Joe so much - more and more. — Dawn Powell

I have always been a huge believer in the inestimable value good mentoring can contribute to any nascent business — Richard Branson

Making money at gambling was like seeing ghosts: you never met someone who'd seen a ghost, only someone who knew someone who'd seen a ghost. You only met people who knew people who'd made a fortune at White's. Or on the racecourse. — Winston Graham