Being Daft Quotes

#1. No tears come, and it would be pointless, like trying to empty a reservoir of grief by drip feed. I'm being daft.

Irvine Welsh

#2. If you are not sure or you don't know something, politely ask. Asking is not a sign of being daft, but of confidence.

Archibald Marwizi

#3. Although I considered putting my eight years of Boy Scout experience and love for our nation to the test by joining the military, I did not want to put myself in a position where I might be commanded to take the life of another, and quickly ended my flirtation with military service.

Ashton Kutcher

#4. Whipping, caning, chains, restraints, the cat-o'-nine tails and many other devices beloved of the Marquis de Sade are employed in more extreme sado-masochistic relationships. A spanking, though, s every girl knows, is more about pleasure than pain.

Chloe Thurlow

#5. I've always dreamed of franchising an airline, but I haven't been able to figure out how to do it.

Henry Silverman

#6. Simply killing everyone who is already a terrorist today won't solve the problem.

Brent Scowcroft

#7. Its not how strong you are, its how firm your footing is.

Clive Ollies

#8. What might be merely embarrassing in real life is made obscene and hostile by TV.

Ben Fountain

#9. I shall remember this moment: the silence, the twilight, the bowl of strawberries, the bowl of milk. Your faces in the evening light.[ ... ] I shall carry this memory carefully in my hands as if it were a bowl brimful of fresh milk. It will be a sign to me, and a great sufficiency.

Ingmar Bergman

#10. It is privilege of living to be acutely, agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing.

Marya Mannes

#11. The boys in the office preferred Daft Punk and the song "Robot Rock" as an anthem, speaking excitedly and without irony about wanting to become robots one day. That made me wonder: Why? What's the pull of being a robot?

Katherine Losse

#12. Now whenever I watched a Star Wars film, I found myself wondering how the Empire had the technology to make long-distance holographic phone calls between planets light-years apart, and yet no one had figured out how to make a remote-controlled TIE Fighter or X-Wing yet.

Ernest Cline

#13. In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Frederick William Robertson

#14. The statement by Paul McCartney that, although he was a pacifist, he couldn't be at this time of war. Which is as daft as being a vegetarian between meals.

Mark Steel

#15. We thought being offered the M.B.E. [Member of the Order of the British Empire] was as funny as everybody else thought it was. Why? What for? We didn't believe it. It was a part we didn't want. We all met and agreed it was daft.

John Lennon

#16. You are a fine and talented woman, whose potential is yet to be realized given the love and support and luck we all need. Where you lost the will to fight for what is yours, where you gave away control of your life, is the mystery you are now unraveling. When you get it all back, hold on to it.

Isabel Vincent

#17. You make it a production. Slam doors. Knock things over. Scream. But I just leave. Even if I'm still standing there, I leave. I am refusing you. I am denying you. I am an adjective that is quickly turning into a noun.

David Levithan