Ricky Gervais Offended Quotes & Sayings

Instead of passing blithely over into that Promised Land, flowing almost literally with milk and honey, it may be our destiny to wander a full 40 years or more in the wilderness of doubt and divided sentiments. — Benjamin Graham

Everyone thought I was going to fall down on my shoes and I kept saying, 'Well if I do I'll just get up!' — Daphne Guinness

No doubt we should be, on the whole, much worse off than we are without our astonishing gift for illusion. — Virginia Woolf

A puzzling limitation of our mind: our excessive confidence in what we believe we know, and our apparent inability to acknowledge the full extent of our ignorance and the uncertainty of the world we live in. We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events. Overconfidence is fed by the illusory certainty of hindsight. — Daniel Kahneman

Nature, the sun itself, produces color effects ... instantaneously. The impression of these evanescent visions is what we make desperate attempts to catch and fix by any means at hand. At such moments I am unconscious of materials, of style, of rules, of everything that intervenes between my perception and the object or idea perceived. — Joaquin Sorolla

When someone thanks God, I don't get offended. — Ricky Gervais

No one believed [the 1986 amnesty for illegal aliens] was tough enough on illegal immigration, and it didn't give enough flexibility on future legal immigration. — Charles Schumer

Get thee a good husband, and use him as he uses thee. — William Shakespeare

In Irena's head the alcohol plays a double role: it frees her fantasy, encourages her boldness, makes her sensual, and at the same time it dims her memory. She makes love wildly, lasciviously, and at the same time the curtain of oblivion wraps her lewdness in an all-concealing darkness. As if a poet were writing his greatest poem with ink that instantly disappears. — Milan Kundera

Actually, who are you not to be? — Marianne Williamson

Knowledge without transformation is not wisdom. — Paulo Coelho

I have a life that's just been a well of loneliness. — Jessica Lange

It is hard for a flat thing to understand a round one. — Arthur Dove

Just because you're offended, doesn't mean you're right. — Ricky Gervais

She tries to get a waitressing job for a while - I mean, she's looking for a while before she finds Coyote Ugly - and it's hard to get a waitressing job in the city. — Piper Perabo

I think being sublimely happy is the only thing I could ever hope for in life. — Lacey Schwimmer

I was just a little girl watching TV and wanting to be in it. My parents had no idea how to get me there, but here I am as a part of this great cast on the Disney Channel. Truly, if you just want to do this, then you have to commit to it. — Brenda Song