Sorry For Being Childish Quotes

#1. Being a fan of authentic Dada, I find today's art - what I call 'Bankers' Dada' - mind-numbingly dull. The most challenging work I've seen of late is by The British Art Resistance. Their document, 'A Call for Heroes in an Age of Cowards', is apt in these days of witless chancers.

Billy Childish

#2. When making a point, there are 2 types of people who may disagree with you: those who can support their reasons, and the childish ones who are too worried about being told what to do.

Criss Jami

#3. God doesn't believe in the easy way.

James Agee

#4. I can take a joke," she tells me, sounding insulted.
"Yeah? When?"
"When it's not being delivered by a childish jackass who thinks he's God's gift to women."
"I am not childish." God's gift on the other hand? My record speaks for itself.
"Oh, bite me."
I wish.

Emma Chase

#5. Whats the point in being grown up when you cant act childish sometimes?

Natalie Repinski

#6. Blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what had been spoken to her by the LORD

Anonymous

#7. I am devoted to my husband and son. I am devoted to the practices and rituals that imbue our lives with a sense of meaning and purpose, that help me to live my days in the most emotionally and intellectually productive manner. I am devoted to the idea of devotion itself.

Dani Shapiro

#8. I like feeling at home and knowing people. I like talking about ideas and being friendly.

Billy Childish

#9. What are truck rental companes and fertilizer salesman goign to do in response to the OK city bombing?

Michael Z. Williamson

#10. Why is it childish to want something better? asked Frank sulkily. It's like pretending to be content is the same as actually being content. I'm not going to pre tent. - Frank

Chris Priestley

#11. No point in being a grown-up if you can't be childish.

Terrance Dicks

#12. Are you living in a computer simulation?

Nick Bostrom

#13. If all experienced God in the same way and returned Him an identical worship, the song of the Church triumphant would have no symphony, it would be played like an orchestra in which all instruments played the same note.

C.S. Lewis

#14. As the eye is the best composer, so light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make beautiful. And the stimulus it affords to the sense, and a sort of infinitude which it hath, like space and time, make all matter gay. Even the corpse has its own beauty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#15. Don't judge it. Just write it. Don't judge it. It's not for you to judge it.
Interview in Esquire Magazine 10/10

Philip Roth

#16. I like being on the margins. You work better there.

Billy Childish

#17. When someone accuses you of being 'childish', I think you should take it as a compliment.

Stana Katic

#18. When a head and a wall collide it's never the wall that breaks.

Marty Rubin

#19. Conversion engages the mind as well as the emotions.

Max Anders

#20. Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach.

Samuel Johnson

#21. I love British voicing and British humour in general. I'm a huge Ricky Gervais fan.

McG

#22. Anna was saying to herself: why do I always have this awful need to make other people see things as I do? It's childish, why should they? What it amounts to is that I'm scared of being alone in what I feel.

Doris Lessing

#23. You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, 'Am I having fun?'

Christopher Meloni

#24. I did not like prizes at school. I didn't like tests or exams, or the 11+, or O-levels. Later I hated B.A.s and M.A.s. The reason I hated them is that I don't like being tested, failed or falsely praised by anyone.

Billy Childish

#25. It's not fair. It's not fair, she cried, knowing it was a child's argument but not caring, because being childish did not make it untrue.

Kristin Cashore

#26. What is the world's problem? The world is still believing the old childish stories! That is the problem! Grow up, world, grow up! Be a bit serious!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#27. Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It's perfectly childish to be in mourning for a man who is actually staying a whole week with you in your house as a guest. I call it grotesque.

Oscar Wilde

#28. When a complex is acquired, personal development is stopped and the person even being an adult, sometimes behaves in a childish and immature way

Sunday Adelaja

#29. I had a childish attraction to men of my father's generation, as if I still harbored a faint hope of being unorphaned, even at this late date.

William Landay

#30. For kids like me, being called childish can be a frequent occurrence. Every time we make irrational demands, exhibit irresponsible behavior, or display any other signs of being normal American citizens, we are called childish.

Adora Svitak

#31. I coined this term 'freedom thru limitation' back in the '90s because I was sick of art being treated like pop, because of this boring 'anything can be art' theory.

Billy Childish

#32. He'd make sure to impress upon the wench his displeasure with her actions if only she weren't being so completely childish as to ignore him all morning.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#33. No tyrant, however evil, has yet lacked ready hands to execute his most abominable will. To read how eagerly men have rushed to serve the despot is the bitterest, the saddest matter of history; it is the saddest sight in our own day.

Richard Jefferies