Quotes About Naivety

it was part of being very young that you overestimated the lightweights with charisma.

The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness.

It's like the songs small children sing. 'Shit and piss. And blood, and sperms and slime and vomit and pus and snot and sweat.

It wasn't as if crack was getting great press in the South Bronx in 1999, but it took a particular kind of idiot to wake up one day and say, 'Angel dust is a product I've heard nothing but good about, and it's about time I was involved.

Femelle, je te traiterai en femelle, et c'est bassement que je te séduirai, comme tu le mérites et comme tu le veux. A notre prochaine rencontre, et ce sera bientôt, en deux heures je te séduirai par les moyens qui leur plaisent à toutes, les sales, sales moyens, et tu tomberas en grand imbécile amour, et ainsi vengerai-je les vieux et les laids, et tous les naïfs qui ne savent pas vous séduire, et tu partiras avec moi, extasiée et les yeux frits !

une jeune interprète, idiote en quatre langues

Lad was not even consoled by the knowledge that he was guarding the slumbrous house. He was not guarding it. He had not the very remotest idea what it meant to be a watchdog. In all his five months he had never learned that there is unfriendliness in the world; or that there is anything to guard a house against.

Attention ! Ce sont les croyants béats comme vous, les naïfs, les dévoreurs d'écrits humanitaires, les calvinistes de l'idée, qui élèvent les guillotines.

In wit a man, simplicity a child.

The fool is happy that he knows no more

When I first envisioned 'Funny Games' in the mid-1990s, it was my intention to have an American audience watch the movie. It is a reaction to a certain American cinema, its violence, its naivety, the way American cinema toys with human beings. In many American films, violence is made consumable.

We didn't have lawyers and accountants. No one was watching out for our money. We'd go to the office and get money and go on our way. I was 19-20 years old then. I was stupid. I didn't know any better. We weren't getting our fair share of the money. That happens to young musicians all the time. It makes me mad when I think how stupid we were.

Whether such socialism is foolish naivety or heroic idealism is a matter of opinion, but what is certain is that, however many CDs are sold or tours sold out, the sound waves themselves are free.

Man's world is the planet of inexperience.

To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.

I was in preschool and a girl actually kissed me on the cheek. I didn't know what to do. I didn't know what it meant, so I instantly grabbed her face and kissed her on the lips. And, then I got suspended.

I have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to be so naive as to believe that a book will make it merely because it's good.

He can't figure out why people do what they do. His cluelessness only makes others keener to dupe him.

I had written a book of short stories which was published under the title of Uncle Tom's Children. When the review of that book began to appear, I realized that I had made an awful naive mistake. I found that I had written a book which even bankers' daughters could read and weep over and feel good about. I swore to myself that if I ever wrote another book, no one would weep over it; that it would be so hard and deep that they would have to face it without the consolation of tears.

His brow furrowed in a way that suggested he was calculating my likely ability to be that naive.

Kids can be hurtful sometimes. They believe if you happen to be an adult, nothing can possibly hurt you.

You speak like a green girl,Unsifted in such perilous circumstance.

What the hell was I doing letting you anywhere near a journalist? It's like giving a seal pup to a shark.

Hay gente que hace de su ingenuidad su bote de navegación por el mar tormentoso.