Amateurish Quotes

#1. The music we made then was so amateurish, compared to the rest of mainstream pop or rock and roll. But what differentiated us from what everybody else was doing in the business was the fact that you could tell that these people came from different reference areas.

Kevin Ayers

#2. ...I found that much of the romance had left the trenches. The old days, from the beginning to July, 1915, were all so delightfully precarious and primitive. Amateurish trenches and rough and ready life, which to my mind gave this war what it sadly needs - a touch of romance.

Bruce Bairnsfather

#3. We made satires of everything - news broadcasts and TV shows that we watched. When I look at them now, they are totally amateurish, but I find it quite remarkable that we were so skeptical of the world! My parents watched them and thought they were funny; they really encouraged us.

Lev Yilmaz

#4. Government should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role.

Edward Abbey

#5. I think Bush is amateurish and self-serving, and frankly, it's disgusting.

Sandra Bernhard

#6. I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons.

Upamanyu Chatterjee

#7. Here, we chop wood to keep warm. If you think that's amateurish, all I can say to you is this: You are more vulnerable than you think.

Anne Fortier

#8. Ask yourself this: Who is more amateurish, more vulnerable - those who rely on machines that need to be plugged in, or logged on, or in some other way connected in order to be more than a useless slab of plastic ... or those who have learned to master life without?

Anne Fortier

#9. As a professional, it pains me to watch a movie that is botched and amateurish. I prefer directors who have control of both their craft and their ideas.

George Cukor

#10. General knowledge may have to be slight or even amateurish knowledge, but it is none the less useful, and we discourage it at our peril.

C.V. Wedgwood

#11. In America our radicalism is still simply amateurish and incompetent.

Randolph Bourne

#12. The life we all live is amateurish and accidental; it begins in accident and proceeds by trial and error toward dubious ends.

Wallace Stegner

#13. This music, transmitted by loud-speakers, made a masterpiece appear like an amateurish attempt at composition by nimcompoop

Paul Hindemith

#14. Kelsoism is not accepted by modern scientific economics as a valid and fruitful analysis of the distribution of income but rather it is regarded as an amateurish and cranky fad.

Paul Samuelson

#15. Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.

Susan Sontag

#16. I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.

Patti Smith

#17. George W. Bush spoke to the camera, his face so decisively earnest that it was clear he was lying, his button eyes lit up with amateurish subterfuge. Only truly great men can be adept at shameless lying, Joshua thought. This dude was straining to the point of snapping.

Aleksandar Hemon

#18. Being with her was like being backstage during an amateurish, ridiculous play.

Nathanael West

#19. Yeah. I'm amateurish. I can play enough to write a song, or strum on a little guitar to write out a song. But, I don't play well at all. I wouldn't even attempt for a second to play in public.

Ben E. King

#20. I wouldn't participate in 'Stars on Ice' if I were asked. I find it an amateurish tour in a way, the production quality.

Johnny Weir

#21. Kuni didn't change his tone at all. If anything, he grew even calmer. "These cartoons are very amateurish. I could show Namen many more tricks about how to insult people artfully. For example, the drawings could have been made much more subtle and also much more lewd." "What?

Ken Liu

#22. You don't call them 'strippers.' They're dancers. 'Strippers' sounds cheesy and amateurish. These women are professionals." The man sipped his beer and glanced at Zoe. "And, you don't call them booger bars or strip joints, for the same reason.

Jackson Burnett

#23. The idea that God is a worthy recipient of our gratitude for the blessings of life but should not be held accountable for the disasters is a transparently disingenuous innovation of the theologians.

Daniel Dennett

#24. My biggest life lesson is that the past is the past. I do my best not to bring history into my present. It ain't ever easy, but it usually creates more opportunity for joyful experiences.

Dash Mihok

#25. It's nice to have the opportunity to play for so much money, but it's nicer to win it.

Paul Bryant

#26. Living your life 40 floors up, looking out every day on ocean and skies, you see the world from a different point of view. It's like living in a very interesting fishbowl, but since no one can see up here, it's like a fishbowl with a limo tint.

Pharrell Williams

#27. A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers.

David Fincher

#28. Sometimes we hate her," Laurel said, then smiled at Parker. "But it's a hate based on love.

Nora Roberts

#29. The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability.

Oscar Wilde

#30. It is the hero alone, not the coward, who has liberation within his easy reach.

Swami Vivekananda

#31. He didn't understand how sadness came so easily to people. For him it was like a pile of rocks that had to be moved one at a time. Just thinking about it made him tired.

Nell Freudenberger

#32. For all his youth, he seemed to be willing himself to the edge of an adult despair.

J.G. Ballard

#33. Although I was always very happy in Britain, I never stopped thinking of America as home, in the fundamental sense of the term. It was where I came from, what I really understood, the base against which all else was measured.

Bill Bryson

#34. I didn't get into politics because I thought government had a better answer. I got into politics because I knew government didn't have the real answers, that the real answers lie in accepting Jesus Christ into our lives.

Mike Huckabee

#35. Identity is not inherent. It is shaped by circumstance and sensitivity and resistance to self-pity.

Dorothy West