Quotes About Judgment

Snap judgments? I'd gotten over those about the time I was toilet trained. Swore off diapers and faith in the human experience all in one week.

It is a waste of time to dissipate one's moral zeal in disapproving of royal persons who have mistresses.

Prejudice is a great time-saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. Prejudice not being founded on reason cannot be removed by argument.

I don't know how a judge can concentrate on being fair and impartial when he or she is faced with possible jail time for making a decision that others deem incorrect.

I'm always in those tabloids where they show who's badly dressed. It's funny, because each time I'm getting my picture taken, I'm thinking, This is a nice outfit.

Decisions are made by people who have time, not people who have talent.

Every time I bring an album it's like I'm bringing in the plague, once again. I don't actually know what category it all falls into, but I've stopped worrying about it.

You can act as nice as you can 100% of the time, and it will still not make everybody say nice things about you.

I've been very lucky as far as the things that I've picked, and the way they've worked out. I try to pass on stuff that looks like it's gonna be a bad time.

I've never written a children's book, but when people meet me for the first time and I say I write books, they invariably reply, 'Children's books?' Maybe it's something about my face.

Time is the only test of honest men, one day is space enough to know a rogue.

If bad taste were a felony, every writer I know would've done prison time.

Critics have been amusing themselves for a long time by auscultating fiction for signs of heart failure.

The following story is one which he related recently regarding the practice of fault - finding among creeds: A frog lived in a well. It had lived there for a long time. . . .

You didn't kill him. He would have killed you, but you didn't kill him." "So? He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep.

I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'

I'm honest about expressing my opinions. At the same time, I'm diplomatic in how I do critique things if I have a negative response.

There is a time and a place for things. Sometimes one needs to put a filter on oneself. That can be a good thing.

I figure it's okay to make certain rules, whether or not people despise you for it at the time.

Any time you see a white guy in jail, you know he did something bad.

It's too easy to trivialize people. The Internet does it all the time.

There is no possible line of conduct which has at some time and place been condemned, and which has not at some other time and place been enjoined as a duty.

It's not that I'm racist or anything, because I'm not, but I just don't think we should be wasting our time helping people that are going to die soon anyway.

I think, a lot of times, directors assume that whatever they get from you the first time, whether it be at an audition or on set, is all that you can bring.