Quotes About Childish

She had all his savage powers of logic. It made a person feel naive and childish for imagining there could be any good in the world at all.

Neil Tennant: Live Aid was the last thing I was asked to do for Smash Hits. Mark [Ellen] asked me to cover it, and for some completely childish reason I just sort of couldn't be bothered and said no. So I watched Live Aid sitting in my studio flat on the King's Road with Jon Savage and [photographer] Eric Watson, all three of us slagging it off.

A lot of people were trying to take my life as far as, you know, in the court system. And I was childish, man. I made songs about public officials and things like that. Those people don't forget that and I don't trust people like that.

so red, indeed, that she almost looked as if tears were coming into her poor, dull, childish eyes;

It may be a childish torment, but we do not get to choose our demons.

There were people who believed Herzog was rather simple, that his humane feelings were childish. That he had been spared the destruction of certain sentiments as the pet goose is spared the axe.

Moses loved his relatives quite openly and even helplessly . . . It was childish of him; he knew that. He could only sigh at himself, that he should be so undeveloped on that significant side of his nature.

That's all life is - something childish and very natural. Isn't it?

A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree that we do -- namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions.

I liked the sweeter ones, but I knew it would sound childish to say so.

In honesty you have to admit to a wise man that prayer is not for the wise, not for the prudent, not for the sophisticated. Instead it is for those who recognize that in face of their deepest needs, all their wisdom is quite helpless. It is for those who are willing to persist in doing something that is both childish and crucial.

Anti-theses.- The most senile thing ever thought about man is contained in the celebrated saying 'the ego is always hateful'; the most childish is the even more celebrated 'love thy neighbor as thyself'. - In the former, knowledge of human nature has ceased, in the latter it has not yet even begun.

When one came to know them it was surprising how childish grown people could be.

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

As men obsessed with the idea that all knowledge lies within a woman's body, but having entered it to find themselves as ignorant as before, they are driven towards all women again and again: in childish hope that somehow the next time they will find the treasure, and then the equally childish desire for revenge since it cannot be found, that knife in the unfathomable entrails; and they grow full of hatred.

I wanted to create a heroine that was flawed. I wanted her to be a real person. She's selfish, she's childish, she's immature and because I'm doing a three-book arc I really played that up in the first book. I wanted the reader to be annoyed with her at times.

My father built me a theatre behind the house where I could put on plays. Dear me, I'm making it sound a bit grand, and it wasn't an amphitheatre or anything like that, just a little place with a roll-up curtain box and I'm sure the plays were childish lopsided things.

Censors, the whole idea of it, is so childish. You feel like you're talking to hall monitors in school again.

Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?

Batman You killed my parents. The Joker What What What are you talking about Batman I made you, you made me first. The Joker Give me a break. I was a kid when I killed your parents. When I say I made you you gotta say you made me. How childish can you get

Avoiding the physical sciences due to the fear that they will lead to heresy is childish.

His small but childish handwriting straggled up and down the page, shedding first its capital letters and finally even its full stops:

Puerile as such an exercise may seem, it

Let us runaway to the aspirations we dream of in our childish moments, where magic is real and we are unstoppable.