Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dorothy Dunnett

Today,’ said Lymond, ‘if you must know, I don’t like living at all. But that’s just immaturity boggling at the sad face of failure. Tomorrow I’ll be bright as a bedbug again.

Andrew Sarris

It is cynicism, and not idealism, that is generally the mark of youthful immaturity, or rather it is the cynic who is generally the most foolish romantic.

Mason Cooley

For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect.

Immanuel Kant

It is difficult for the isolated individual to work himself out of the immaturity which has become almost natural for him.

Immanuel Kant

Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!

Mary Robinson

Young persons, because of their immaturity, may not fully comprehend the consequences of their actions and should therefore benefit from less severe sanctions than adults. More importantly, it reflects the firm belief that young persons are more susceptible to change, and thus have a greater potential for rehabilitation than adults.

Len Elmore

There were times my immaturity kept me from being all I wanted to be.

Witold Gombrowicz

Our element is unending immaturity.

Chinua Achebe

My weapon is literature

Chinua Achebe

I teach literature. That's easy for me. Take someone else's work and talk about it.

Edward Hirsch

There's always some place to go. You don't need workshops, you don't need friends necessarily, you can be befriended by literature itself.

David Hume

Such a superiority do the pursuits of literature possess above every other occupation, that even he who attains but a mediocrity in them, merits the pre-eminence above those that excel the most in the common and vulgar professions.

Audre Lorde

I am very, very happy for Alice Walker.

Audre Lorde

We're supposed to see "universal" love as heterosexual. What I insist upon in my work is that there is no such thing as universal love in literature.

Kurt Vonnegut

And what is literature, Rabo," he said, "but an insider's newsletter about affairs relating to molecules, of no importance to anything in the universe but a few molecules who have the disease called 'thought'.

Bill O'Reilly

Dan Rather is guilty of not being skeptical enough about a story that was politically loaded.

Carlos Fuentes

Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal.

Kent Beck

I think it's a combination of technical and social factors that leads to all the defects in deployed software.

Honore de

They must have the defects of their qualities.

Sathya Baba

What is offered to GOD is totally free from all defects and imperfections.

Michael Davidson

You get the pretty images due to the light hitting the defects in the materials.

Jacques Maritain

We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities.

Leo Fender

I was always able to see the defects in the design of an instrument which overlooked completely the need of its maintenance.

Dave Forney

Understanding how to better develop software that is free from security defects is fundamental. Only by collaboration between top thinkers representing all stakeholders can we solve this problem. The Secure Software Forum is a tremendous step towards that solution and ISSA is excited to be supporting these efforts.

Lance Henriksen

I liked 'Scream of the Banshee' because it was a real challenge. I thought, 'How am I going to pull off this character?' But, I also thought, 'Oh, man, I'm going to go for it.' He's got all the defects of character that an actor loves to play. So, I had a really great time.

Robert Bohn

The impact of lean initiative has been our operating margins have improved ... and defects have gone down.