Immaculate Misconception Quotes

#1. Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.

Jean De La Fontaine

#2. The Fellow of No Delicacy XIV. The Honest Tradesman XV. Knitting XVI. Still Knitting XVII. One Night XVIII. Nine

Charles Dickens

#3. Fear and hatred do not seem to find expression in tears.

Quentin Crisp

#4. Yes, I got my first Bolex camera a few weeks after being dropped in New York by the United Nations Refugee Organization. That was on October 29th, 1949. With my brother Adolfas, we wanted to make a film about displaced persons, how one feels being uprooted from one's home.

Jonas Mekas

#5. It's easy to confuse a woman for a philosophy

Zadie Smith

#6. With every choice you make, be conscious of what need it serves.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#7. When I came across something I liked, I wanted to find out as much as I could about it. This was as true of hearing Hoagy Carmichael for the first time as it was later when I first heard Boulez.

Richard Rodney Bennett

#8. Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy.

Lauren Bacall

#9. I never feel weird about being the main character in the nontransferable, nonexistent movie of my life. That's totally fine. What makes me nervous is a growing suspicion that this movie is fucked up and devoid of meaning. The auteur is a nihilist.

Chuck Klosterman

#10. I think Barack Obama is a one-term President.

Dick Cheney

#11. What happened, and what might have happened?

Tim O'Brien

#12. Pain is only temporary, no matter how long it lasts.

Ray Lewis

#13. Some say that this is the Israelis' original sin. With this I do not agree but I think we can call it Israel's immaculate misconception.

Avishai Margalit

#14. I don't get a whole lot out of the romance thing, but I realize girls do. So I'll go out of my way to make them feel romanced.

James Lafferty