Misattributing Causation Quotes & Sayings

Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been. — Robert Henri

The elderly are spooky when they degenerate into
reflections of their younger selves. They say things that
make sense on some grammatical level, but it's not always
connected to reality. — Scott Adams

All she ever wanted was unpredictable kisses and unforgettable laughter. — Brandon Villasenor

For mine, the villains of the piece were always important. In a traditional sense, that's always an important role. — Ben Mendelsohn

Everything wants to be remembered, chronicled, documented: everything - all of this and all the rest, because your life is neither a finite length that can be measured out to a certain point and served, nor is it only your own. — Alex Jeffers

In Antarctica you get to know people so well that in comparison you do not seem to know the people in civilization at all. — Apsley Cherry-Garrard

I did feel like they were telling me that something like that was going to happen. Not specifically - not that planes were going to be flown into the World Trade Center or anything like that - but in the general sense. — Jon Ronson

It seems to me one cannot sit down in that place [the Round Reading room of the British Museum] without a heart full of grateful reverence. I own to have said my grace at the table, and to have thanked Heaven for my English birthright, freely to partake of these beautiful books, and speak the truth I find there. — William Makepeace Thackeray