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Quotes About Childish

Anyone can write a story based on the kind of horror where you see a guy in car and then there's the bad guy in the back seat. It's infantile to rely on that for telling a story. That's like going to bed and thinking there's a monster under your bed. It's silly.
~ Sergio Aragones
Most of my characters are silly little boys. It's human. Everyone is badly behaved.
~ Harry Enfield
It's an embarrassing fact that we are more afraid of embarrassment than a host of other discomforts, but it isn't less true for all that. How often have you refrained from voicing hope or indignation for fear of being dismissed as childish? Oddly enough, that fear is adolescent, born of a time when few things feel worse than being regarded as a less grown-up than your peers.
~ Susan Neiman
Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational, but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?
~ Judith Viorst
It was juvenile, he knew, this need to assign blame, but everyone had a right to childish emotions from time to time, didn't they?
~ Julia Quinn
sentados en sus culos alicorándose y viendo en la caja estúpida a veintidós adultos infantiles darle patadas a un balón.
~ Fernando Vallejo
Billy Hey I'm trying to score points with the teacher today. DON'T SCREW IT UP. 3rd Grader I dare you to touch her boobs. Billy Touch her boobs That's assault brotha...... Ya double dare me
~ Billy Madison
There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag.
~ Adrian Edmondson
What need is there to say more? The childish work for their own benefit, The buddhas work for the benefit of others. Just look at the difference between them. If I do not exchange my happiness For the suffering of others, I shall not attain the state of buddhahood And even in samsara I shall have no real joy.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
He's filled with a sense of childish release, the old feeling that because you are sick, all your trials and obligations have been suspended.
~ Michael Cunningham
I don't respect thinking that is dangerous, prejudicial, childish, and could get me killed.
~ Bill Maher
Now, I want you to know that while we watched You discover there was no one true Most ev'rybody really thought It was a childish thing to do Tears of rage, tears of grief Must I always be the thief? Come to me now, you know We're so low And life is brief
~ Bob Dylan
S? they had begun to walk about in a fabulous Paris, letting themselves be guided by the nighttime signs, following routes born of a clochard phrase, of an attic lit up in the darkness of a street's end, stopping in little confidential squares to kiss on the benches or look at the hopscotch game, those childish rites of a pebble and a hop on one leg to get into Heaven, Home.
~ Julio Cortazar
Your church is a baby-house made of blocks.
~ Henry David Thoreau
And the beautiful lady, still with her beautiful wasp's waist, the very beautiful lady whose charms buzz around our childish dreams, will not turn to cigar smoke when the North Star appears.
~ Michel Leiris
Totally girly - love all the childish sounds.
~ Anna Sui
Maybe it was just another episode in the reality show that is still unfolding. Or maybe when you're roiling in childish rage, the first thing you lose is judgment, and then comes common sense. And finally you lose your mind and along with that, your freedom.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
What do we really want from religion? Palliatives? Therapy? Comfort? Do we want reassuring fables or an understanding of our actual circumstances? Dismay that the Universe does not conform to our preferences seems childish. You might think that grown-ups would be ashamed to put such thoughts into print. The fashionable way of doing this is not to blame the Universe -- which seems truly pointless -- but rather to blame the means by which we know the Universe, namely science.
~ Carl Sagan
At home I've got a very puerile, juvenile sense of humour.
~ Thom Yorke
Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
~ Katharine Hepburn
If this is foolish," Keillor writes in the final stanza, "so be it." But it is not foolish or childish — merely human. Our sense of loss deserves to be respected, not belittled.
~ Gary Kowalski
It's wonderful,' said Bond, deciding to relieve her mind, though irritated with her obvious guilt over this childish mystery. 'You must go in and we'll have breakfast on the terrace. I'm ravenous. I'm sorry I made you jump. I was just startled to see anyone about at this hour of the morning.
~ Ian Fleming
Nabokov, who I loved more than any other writer when I was young, had such contempt for dialogue. When I was younger, I never wrote a word of dialogue because of him. I thought it was a childish part of a novel.
~ Zadie Smith
Everybody's feet seemed to itch to dance; robes swung more widely as people walked around the settlement and eyes sparked with a desire for childish wickedness.
~ Storm Constantine