Amateurishness Quotes

#1. There's a kind of amateurishness among French actresses, but I don't share that completely.

Clemence Poesy

#2. I would be the unhappiest person imaginable, confronted daily with disastrous works crying out with errors, imprecision, carelessness, amateurishness. I avoided this punishment by destroying them, I thought, and suddenly I took great pleasure in the word destroying.

Thomas Bernhard

#3. Anarchism means all sort of things to different people, but the traditional anarchists' movements assumed that there'd be a highly organized society, just one organized from below with direct participation and so on.

Noam Chomsky

#4. Every scripture, no matter how ancient, must go through rigorous human scrutiny.

Abhijit Naskar

#5. If we lack either self-awareness or confidence in who we are, we run the risk of allowing others to define who we are or who we should be.

Lisa Locke

#6. Wasn't that the point of life? To find someone to share it with?
And if you got that part right, how far wrong could you go? If you were standing next to the person you loved more than everything else, wasn't everything else just scenery?

Rainbow Rowell

#7. Most people in the university [ Columbia University ], including the administration, are very biased against the military.

Matt Sanchez

#8. definitely not best friends

Paula Danziger

#9. Thanks to the greatest invention of recent years, the MP3-playing alarm clock, I can now choose the song that wakes me up in the morning.

Rob Sheffield

#10. Somewhere, on some subterranean level, her darkness and his may have connected.

Haruki Murakami

#11. Friends act like friends

A.S. King

#12. [T]he best historians ... take a thorough knowledge of the evidence of their subject and combine it with a sharp intellect, the warmest understanding of people and the highest imaginative powers.

Elliot Perlman

#13. Towns aren't even towns anymore," Vicki said, sensing my distraction with this sad evolution, and giving me a hug around my middle. "Dallas wasn't ever one, when you get right down to it. It's just a suburb looking for a place to light.

Richard Ford

#14. I don't have friends. I talk to people when I have to. I smile. I do the socially acceptable thing and tolerate people when I'm at work. But no one gets in my personal space. I don't need anybody!

Stevie J. Cole

#15. Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Samuel Johnson