Tomfoolishness Quotes & Sayings

It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake. — Vincent D'Onofrio

The government's ability to select scientists and pick things that are fairly strange, because politicians don't like failures. They're only in office a short term, and many of these things take a long time. — Bill Gates

'Captain Fantastic' was the first album in history to enter the (American) album chart at number one. We did it for a second time after that. Now that's not a boast, that's frightening ... The process of doing it was unique because I wrote the songs in the order they were recorded, so it was written like a story. — Bernie Taupin

I just immediately connect everything to the wars I have been covering overseas, and that's not the case back home. I wrongly assumed all Americans at home were as consumed with our troops in Afghanistan as I was abroad. — Lynsey Addario

At these big set-piece events like the leaders' debates, that exterior of calm and serenity is nothing compared to what's going on inside most of the time. — Nicola Sturgeon

(Water) ... no matter how wide or deep you cut it ... it has no memory. No scar ... it's all future, no past. — Charles Martin

The establishment wonders why we can't get more of the black vote. It's because it's not doing the things necessary to establish a deeper relationship with the black community. Most black people don't think alike. Most black people just vote alike. — J. C. Watts

Not judginess, but openness and curiosity are our proper business. I'm still trying to educate myself. I don't think you need to keep rehearsing your instincts. Far better to seek out models of what you can't do. — John Updike

People say I'm the original Don Draper. I'm not Don Draper. — George Lois

If I speak, I am condemned.
If I stay silent, I am damned! — Victor Hugo

My devotion to my job started from a personal defeat: my first girlfriend's parents rejected me because i wasn't rich. I decided i would show them what a big mistake they had made. — Roberto Cavalli

I do think that, of all the silly, irritating tomfoolishness by which we are plagued, this "weather-forecast" fraud is about the most aggravating. It "forecasts" precisely what happened yesterday or a the day before, and precisely the opposite of what is going to happen to-day. — Jerome K. Jerome

I don't want to be one of those people saying, 'Remember when things were better?' — Robbie Robertson

A lot of blood, sweat, and tears have gone into this career of mine. — Kevin Hart

Down to Gehenna or up to the throne, / He who travels fastest who travels alone... — Jeffery Deaver