Dilettantish Quotes

#1. I kind of have a dilettantish spirit about me.

Ron Silver

#2. The ethical task of the modern writer is to be not a creator but a destroyer - a destroyer of shallow inwardness, the consoling notion of the universally human, dilettantish creativity, and empty phrases.

Susan Sontag

#3. This dilettantish inability to comprehend the essential issues of the conduct of production affairs is not only manifested in the writings of Marx and Engels. It permeates no less the contributions of contemporary pseudo-economics.

Ludwig Von Mises

#4. Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know what he thinks he knows.

James Bryce

#5. Captain Vimes believed in logic, in much the same way as a man in a desert believed in ice
i.e., it was something he really needed, but this just wasn't the world for it.

Terry Pratchett

#6. Fresh peach pie can lift a bullying reprobate into apologetic courtesy; I have watched it happen.

Leif Enger

#7. It seemed, then, that a lifetime would not be long enough for me to act with Joey the act of love.

James Baldwin

#8. It's not how you go into church,but it's how you come out that will make a difference in your life.

Jay Seei

#9. What you did in the past is how you got to today. What you do today is how you will get to the future.

Ron Kaufman

#10. Away with the flat of her

Jojo Moyes

#11. I'm not a U.S. citizen. I mean, I'm an earth-izen. Borderline policies are crap to me.

Chuck D