Fooling Quotes

#1. When we think we have something to say we are usually wrong. We are fooling ourselves. Trip into discovery. Don't write what you know, discover something new.

Marie Howe

#2. The tiny match we've been fooling with just set off an explosion.

Veronica Larsen

#3. I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.

Margaret Mead

#4. It wasn't that the dark side was stronger, but that everything was the dark side. All magic was inherently wrong, and it was only us fooling ourselves that some of it was good, some of it was bad. Magic ... just was.

Kim Harrison

#5. All the difference in the world between the movies and the thrill I get out of a play at the theater. Ay, yes! Like fooling around with paper dolls when you could be playing with a real live baby.

Edna Ferber

#6. Fooling the body into thinking it's full on only a thousand calories can be difficult. The trick is to chew the food until it's pretty much liquid. This way, vomiting after burns less

J. Matthew Nespoli

#7. If I had been a more realistic and reasonable person, if I had not been twenty-one and still fooling myself, I would have said, Wait.

Amy Bloom

#8. It's not about fooling somebody, it's actually giving somebody a measure of their own belief: how much you want to be fooled. That's why we pay to go to magic shows and things like that.

Vik Muniz

#9. Then the Yo-Yo was coming around again, and Vann Larch was saying, "Gehenna with this fooling around! I'll fix the expurgated unprintability!

H. Beam Piper

#10. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us.

C.S. Lewis

#11. Literature is claimed to be a mirror of the world," I said, "but the Outlanders are fooling themselves. The BookWorld is as orderly as people in the RealWorld *hope* their own world to be - it isn't a mirror, it's an aspiration.

Jasper Fforde

#12. Hurry it up, I could hang a dozen men while your fooling around.

Carl Panzram

#13. It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schooling To get adapted to my kind of fooling.

Robert Frost

#14. You are believing not in your god but in yourself if your god knows no better than you do ... and yet, in this alone, I am afraid, you have already been fooling yourself.

Criss Jami

#15. No. Forget it. You're only fooling yourself." "About what?" "About anything being worth a damn. It's dust, lady, all of it, dust and blood.

Ayn Rand

#16. Don't you know? Adam wondered. He, at least, could still smell diesel fuel on his hands. Don't you know what I am?
But this flock of peacocks was too busy fooling to notice they were being fooled.

Maggie Stiefvater

#17. It's easy to make fun of AOL's pending purchase of HuffPo. Just like AOL's purchase of TimeWarner, here we have a new media company - Huffington Post - fooling an old media company, AOL, into overpaying for something that has already peaked.

Douglas Rushkoff

#18. It's not about how loud you turn the amp up. That's not what makes it sound big. What makes it sound big is fooling around with different delays and reverb settings.

Brian Setzer

#19. ...{N}othing is harder for the developing writer than overcoming his anxiety that he is fooling himself and cheating or embarrassing his family and friends.

John Gardner

#20. When human consciousness stops fooling itself and looks at the situation straight on, it can't cope.

Fuminori Nakamura

#21. The role of the teacher is to make sure that the practice is pure. By guiding the student, you make sure that they are really going into the planes of light and not fooling themselves.

Frederick Lenz

#22. This ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no fooling around.

David Byrne

#23. If you think you are in control, you're fooling yourself. As soon as you start listening, you realize you're not in control. And letting go will yield more and better results.

Charlene Li

#24. Sometimes, sitting here in the dark, slowly slowly creating strategy, she wondered if she was only fooling herself to think her plans were clever.

Vernor Vinge

#25. You can have the most wonderful motives for what you do, but if what you do harms other people, you're fooling yourself.

John Carroll Lynch

#26. It dawns on me that maybe I'm just terrifically lazy; that I might be appropriating other people's invisible sicknesses and disorders and scribbling them on the clipboard at the end of my bed to fool the nurses; so I can indulge in rest cures all day, every day. That I'm even fooling myself.

Jalina Mhyana

#27. I was adept at fooling the deity. I prayed immediately after all crimes until eventually prayer and crime became indistinguishable to me.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#28. Jack Bauer is fooling his audience, but he's not fooling me.

Craig Lancaster

#29. I think the media spends a lot of time fooling itself.

Penn Jillette

#30. The only man who could make a love scene comfortable was Clark Gable. He was born graceful, he knew what to do with his feet and when he took hold of you, there was no fooling around.

Rosalind Russell

#31. Prenups are so unromantic - a sign of distrust, not love. Time for a reality check, my friends. First, drawing up a prenuptial agreement together is a sign of incredible trust and financial openness - you're fooling yourself if you think you can achieve complete intimacy without it.

Suze Orman

#32. Not fooling around, not bothering nobody, just sitting here mending the Primus," said the cat with a hostile frown, "and, moreover, I consider it my duty to warn you that the cat is an ancient, inviolable animal.

Mikhail Bulgakov

#33. But when I failed, I convinced myself that the failures were evidence of the "real" me, and the successes were the "fake" me fooling people.

Megyn Kelly

#34. They're fooling themselves," I say. "It's better to deal with your shit head on. Life doesn't get better if you look away.

Ann Aguirre

#35. If you're not able to laugh inside a sex shop,
then you probably shouldn't be there.
I mean, they don't call it fooling around for nothing.

David Levithan

#36. At the most basic level, self-deception is fooling ourselves into believing something that is false -- or -- not believing something that is true.

Cortney S. Warren

#37. Fooling around with alternating currents is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever. It's too dangerous ... it could kill a man as quick as a bolt of lightning. Direct current is safe.

Thomas A. Edison

#38. I've been fooling the public for years and I'm really good at it.

Janice Dickinson

#39. The entire existence of the NFL - and of football at any level, for all of that - rests on whether or not the game can keep fooling itself, and its paying fan base, that it is somehow superior to boxing and to the rest of our modern blood sports.

Charlie Pierce

#40. You came along and changed everything. I don't want to be some guy you're fooling around with anymore, Rylann. I want to be with you all the way.

Julie James

#41. A lot of my friends were fooling around with drugs then.

Tommy Rettig

#42. No man was ever taken to hell by a woman unless he already had a ticket in his pocket or at least had been fooling around with timetables.

Rex Stout

#43. The self-taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers; and, besides, he brags, and is the means of fooling other thoughtless people into going and doing as he himself has done.

Mark Twain

#44. Without absence in our lives, we risk fooling ourselves into believing that things (a message from a lover, the performance of a song, the face of a human body) matter less. De

Michael Harris

#45. A journalist who says, 'Well, I pissed off both sides--I must be doing something right,' is probably fooling himself and, worse, he may be fooling the reader. Balance should not be a smokescreen for laziness.

Joe Sacco

#46. Resolved: If you make a duck face in your profile picture, you are declaring yourself a shallow loser and I will ignore you. Moreover, if you have multiple pictures of your cleavage and then declare that you want to "take things slow" you are not fooling anybody.

Morgan Deane

#47. Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

Richard Feynman

#48. When you say 'fooling around with my favorite person,' it makes me feel like this is just a sex thing. And it's not. It never has been, and that's the last thing I want you to think.

Santino Hassell

#49. You know, they are fooling us, there is no God.

Joseph Stalin

#50. Well, all's fair in love, war and fooling the critics.

Victor Borge

#51. I think we're fooling ourselves if we think that regulators are going to be able to outsmart the bankers. So, the task of designing regulatory reform is trying to make more or less foolproof regulation and that's one of the advantages of the systemic category.

Robert F. Engle

#52. Don't wish for "secrets" of the masters, either. There are none worth fooling with. They had no special mediums or paints, nor special brushes that made their work great.

Richard Schmid

#53. He was all show, and he had the conviction, as such people do, that show is the same as substance. He didn't think he was fooling other people; he had fooled himself.

Wendell Berry

#54. I didn't realize how much harm I was doing back then and I think a lot of rap artists probably don't realize it now. I said a lot of stuff fooling around back then, and I saw it do a lot of harm.

Adam Yauch

#55. Stevia does something funny to the chemistry of my mouth. There's no fooling a taste bud, in my experience.

Jonathan Franzen

#56. I think the easiest people to fool are ourselves. Fooling ourselves may even be a necessary precondition for fooling others.

Iain Banks

#57. Always listen to the parent who doesn't like who you love. They can smell a mistake. Of course, you don't find this out until you realize that the person you fell in love with is different from the person you married. Some men are good at fooling you.

Terry McMillan

#58. I do think to some extent multitasking is a way of fooling ourselves that we're being exceptionally efficient.

James Surowiecki

#59. writing is a craft, not an art, and that the man who runs away from his craft because he lacks inspiration is fooling himself.

William Zinsser

#60. It don't take a weather man to look around and see the weather, Jeb said he'd deliver Florida folks and boy did he ever, and we hold these truths to be self evident number one George W Bush is not president. Number two America isn't a true democracy. And number three the media is not fooling me.

Ani DiFranco

#61. Spain is facing an economic situation of extreme difficulty, I repeat, of extreme difficulty, and anyone who doesn't understand that is fooling themselves.

Mariano Rajoy

#62. I had tremendous fun fooling around with the way people talked about songs, just the way that became another way of understanding the world.

Greil Marcus

#63. I can't keep from fooling around with our irrefutable certainties. It is, for example, a pleasure knowingly to mix up two and three dimensionalities, flat and spatial, and to make fun of gravity.

M.C. Escher

#64. It's inevitable, Willa. We are inevitable. When you stop fooling yourself, come find me.

Tessa Bailey

#65. If you are to become a writer you'll have to stop fooling with words.

Sherwood Anderson

#66. If you expect the world to be fair with you because you are fair, you're fooling yourself. That's like expecting the lion not to eat you because you didn't eat him.

John Spence

#67. There is value in long years of obscurity, if one doesn't go insane or suicidal, in that, simply because nobody is looking, the habit of fooling around and trying things out gets ingrained.

Jules Olitski

#68. An awful realization that I have been fooling myself all my life thinking there was a next thing to do to keep the show going and actually I'm just a sick clown and so is everybody else ...

Jack Kerouac

#69. Now, it's time for me to lock up and go. Listen to me. Lock up an empty building that's gonna be torn down. Makes no sense. Like an old man tellin' a lie to his son from his death bed. What's the point? Who besides yourself are you fooling?

Dan Groat

#70. Hearts can be treacherous, but the best way to keep them from fooling you is to listen to them intently

Paulo Coelho

#71. I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don't know who or what, maybe myself.

Marilyn Monroe

#72. Anyone who thinks they're indispensible is fooling themselves.

Hugh Jackman

#73. I thought I was fooling people. But it's the old thing of 'they say vodka doesn't smell'. No, not until you sweat. And you just lie and lie and you think 'I can deal with this'. And then you finally go, 'No you can't'. And then you give up.

Robin Williams

#74. People see me, and they see the suit, and they go: 'you're not fooling anyone', they know I'm rock and roll through and through. But you know that old thing, live fast, die young? Not my way. Live fast, sure, live too bloody fast sometimes, but die young? Die old.

David

#75. If you have to use the words, "deep down" all that means is you're fooling yourself. You're seeing what you want to see and not what's really there.

Nyrae Dawn

#76. You are fooling yourself if you have read the Bible from cover to cover and you do not care more for the lost and hurting and broken than you did before you read it.

Dillon Burroughs

#77. Casey knew his baseball. He only made it look like he was fooling around. He knew every move that was ever invented and some that we haven't even caught on to yet.

Sparky Anderson

#78. As a West Side kid fooling around with boxing gloves, I had been, for some reason of temperament, more interested in dodging a blow than in striking one.

Gene Tunney

#79. When I go into the studio, I'm strictly for business ... I don't like any fooling around in the studio.

Otis Redding

#80. For will anyone dare to tell me that business is more entertaining than fooling among boats? He must have never seen a boat, or never seen an office, who says so.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#81. Taking the easy way isn't right. You need to do things properly in life to achieve the best results. People who cut corners are only fooling themselves.

Sinead Moriarty

#82. Pitching was about fooling people, manipulating them, making them believe in something that ultimately wasn't there. Great pitching was great lying.

Linda Ellerbee

#83. The Operative tried to implement the Purusey breathing technique, which has been proven effective at fooling polygraphs. There is no conclusive evidence as to
whether it is effective at masking the internal lie detectors of fifteen-year-old boys.

Ally Carter

#84. I can be a woodsman if need be. I grew up very close to some forest, and I spent a lot of my formative years up and down trees, fooling around in the woods. I'm no stranger to that sort of landscape.

Alex Turner

#85. I had reached a level of sophistication at which I could know I was fooling myself and still fool myself.

Wendell Berry

#86. That is why it has been repeatedly noticed that the human life is a theatre where the mask show takes place, and we are merely the actors of that show, having entirely identified ourselves with the masks and fooling not only others, but first of all ourselves.

Arvydas Sliogeris

#87. I find that you can use an acting technique when the thing isn't working, not that you make the technique the end result of your work. You use the technique when you're in trouble and things aren't flowing the way they should. It's a way of fooling yourself to make it work again.

Richard Gere

#88. The truth may hurt, but fooling yourself will enslave you.

Charles F. Glassman

#89. When you start fooling around with drugs, you're hurting your creativity, you're hurting your health. Drugs are death, in one form or another. If they don't kill you, they kill your soul. And if your soul's dead, you've got nothing to offer, anyway.

Paul Stanley

#90. Emma hung up and hugged her pillow tight to her chest. He shouldn't be making her feel this special and desired. He was just a friend. Right, just a friend. She wasn't even fooling herself anymore.

Claire Matthews

#91. At the end of the day, I know that I make my living by dressing up, fooling around, playing pranks and giving people a good time. I am enjoying the ride.

Cyrus Broacha

#92. The Machiavelli of the 20th century will be an advertising man, his Prince, a textbook of the art and science of fooling all the people all the time.

Aldous Huxley

#93. I wonder how it is that I'm fooling so many people, I'm doing one of the most stupid things in the world ... and people seem to be falling for it.

Cindy Sherman

#94. I hadn't done any fooling around in so long, I didn't know what to do. I sort of wanted to lose weight and take up piano before I got into another relationship.

Hilary Winston

#95. I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.

Margaret Mead

#96. There are no plans, just people fooling themselves by attempting to design their fates and futures. It makes them feel invincible, even if it's for a transient period of time.

Kanza Javed

#97. Our party has been accused of fooling the public by calling tax increases 'revenue enhancement'. Not so. No one was fooled

Dan Quayle

#98. I was the only woman fooling around with a camera in the streets and all the reporters laughed at me. So I became a fighter.

Lola Alvarez Bravo

#99. The fact of the matter is that if we were going to do anything about Gaddafi, it should have been at the beginning. And by fooling around like this as long as we have, we have wasted an opportunity that would have gotten rid of him.

Lawrence Eagleburger

#100. Fooling laymen with science is sometimes so easy it should be criminal.

Mira Grant