Innocents Abroad Quotes

#1. You've always lived a life of pretense, not a real life
a simulated existence, not a genuine existence. Everything about you, everything you are, has always been pretense, never genuine, never real.

Thomas Bernhard

#2. It's always overwhelming when you get a nice response to something, because you really invest in these projects, and you can't help but really care what other people think.

Shelley Conn

#3. I'd be worried about myself as a human if I hadn't been nervous.

Allison Williams

#4. Characterization is not divorced from plot, not a coat of paint you slap on after the structure of events is already built. Rather characterization is inseparable from plot.

Nancy Kress

#5. The game of life has one rule: if you play, you lose.

Swami Chetanananda

#6. Throughout the night, a part of him always touched a part of her.

Ronlyn Domingue

#7. The image of the disinterested, dispassionate scientist is no less false than that of the mad scientist who is willing to destroy the world for knowledge.

Lewis Wolpert

#8. My best friend, Pradeep, who lives next door, says that 'moron' is a big-brother word for little brothers. His brother Sanj, who's also mostly evil, calls him that too.

Mo O'Hara

#9. As Hamlet says, Hercules may lay about him with his club in every possible direction, but he can't prevent the cats from making a most intolerable row on the roofs of the houses, or the dogs from being shot in the hot weather if they run about the streets unmuzzled

Charles Dickens

#10. We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.

Ronald Reagan

#11. I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. ~Mark Twain, "The Innocents Abroad

Mark Twain

#12. If there is one thing fundamental to the life of the spirit it is the absence of force.

Harold Laski

#13. The field is the sole influence of the particle.

Albert Einstein

#14. It was the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five. Spiritual revelations were conceded to England at that favoured period, as at this. Mrs. Southcott

Charles Dickens

#15. The mediocrity of everything in the great world of today is simply appalling. We live in intellectual slums.

George Santayana