Timidity Define Quotes & Sayings

People know where romantic comedies are going. It's not brain surgery to figure out the end of a romantic comedy. — Steve Carell

The banyan tree does not mean awakening, nor does the hill, nor the saint, nor the European couple. The lotus is a symbol of regeneration. — Swami Vivekananda

The line between failure and success is so fine ... that we are often on the line and do not know it. — Elbert Hubbard

Most fathers and ... Mothers. Only your grandmother and Ghengis Khan know how to do it. — Bill Cosby

[Kepler] had to realize clearly that logical-mathematical theoretizing, no matter how lucid, could not guarantee truth by itself; that the most beautiful logical theory means nothing in natural science without comparison with the exactest experience. Without this philosophic attitude, his work would not have been possible. — Albert Einstein

I think that we live in a very timid age, and a part of our timidity arises from our unwillingness to offend people. And as a result there are whole tribes of people now who define themselves by their offendedness. I mean, who are you if you are not offended by anything? You're kind of nobody or even worse, you are a liberal. And I just think that whole business defining yourself by anger is very problematic. And then the fact that we all kind of bend over backwards not to induce that anger becomes very often also a problem and a kind of cowardice, if you like. And I think we just need to live in a more robust society in which people say things that other people don't like and the answer to that is not to throw a bomb at them, but to say "I don't like that much" and then get on with the next business. — Salman Rushdie

I long for a kind of quiet where I can just drift and dream. I always say getting inspiration is like fishing. If you're quiet and sitting there and you have the right bait, you're going to catch a fish eventually. Ideas are sort of like that. You never know when they're going to hit you. — David Lynch

The aspiration of all writers should be to avoid leaving fissures in their work, to make sure that everything is properly secured so readers won't find a single toehold for their suspicions. — Marcos Giralt Torrente

The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs. — Terence McKenna

I am humiliated in my need, even to myself. — Hope Jahren

It's our memories that teach us who we are. — Glenn Haybittle

How could something so wrong feel so good , so right ? — R.L. Mathewson