David Bailey Quotes

Fortunately I didn't get educated because if I'd got educated I'd be an educated fool now.

David Bailey

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• When I was much younger, I sometimes felt rejected by feminists because of an image that I sold because it paid the bills. Any fool could tell my hair is dyed.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Hair
  • Sometimes
  • Fool

• The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • May
  • Wisdom
  • Doubt

• Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She'd make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • Up
  • Music
  • Believe

• Solving a problem created by debt... by creating more debt is a fool's errand.

  

  Olivier Sarkozy
  • Problem
  • Fool
  • Debt

• One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.

  

  J. B. Morton
  • May
  • Wife
  • Moment

• Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Man
  • Proud
  • Risk

• I'd say my artistic bent definitely came from my father, who was a trial lawyer. And if you're smart, you know that a trial lawyer isn't that different from an actor. He was a poet as well.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Different
  • Father
  • Smart

• He who cheats others is a knave, but he who cheats himself is a fool.

  

  Karl G. Maeser
  • Fool
  • Others
  • Himself

• There's a thin line between catering to the masses and making a fool of yourself; I try to walk that line.

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
  • Yourself
  • Fool
  • Walk

• Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Love
  • Wise
  • Fool

• The 'good' mother, with her fixed smile, her rigidity, her goody-goody outlook, her obsession with unnecessary hygiene, is in fact a fool. It is the 'bad' mother, unafraid of a joke and a glass of wine, richly self-expressive, scornful of suburban values, who is, in reality, good.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Mother

• Does the damned fool want to be blown up? Well, blow him up then. Give him hell, Captain Morton- as hot as you've got it, too.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • Up
  • Fool
  • Blow

• No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;Am an attendant lord, one that will doTo swell a progress, start a scene or two,Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool,Deferential, glad to be of use,Politic, cautious, and meticulous;Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;At times, indeed, almost ridiculous - Almost, at times, the Fool.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • High
  • Doubt
  • Progress

• The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; ... the wise does neither.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Wise
  • Fool
  • Nerd

• There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic 'scientist', the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call 'epistemic arrogance', this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Fool

• I want to reach people and express myself. You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate. You have to put up with people projecting their own ideas, attitudes, misunderstanding you. But it's worth being a public fool if that's all you can be in order to communicate yourself.

  

  Edie Sedgwick
  • People
  • Up
  • Risk

• I see you laugh, and rightly so. What is this silly old fool rambling on about? Good for you. Never respect years, only deeds.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Good
  • Respect
  • Fool

• Let the world call me a fool,But if things are right with me and you,That's all that matters.And I'll do anything you asked me to.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • World
  • Fool

• Bishop was all done with the witty converstaion. "Will you swear?" And Myrnin said, shockingly, "I will." And he proceeded to, a string of swearwords that made Claire blink. He ended with, "--frothy fool-born apple-john! Cheater of vandals and defiler of dead dogs!" and did another twirl and bow. He looked up with a red, red grin that was more like a leer. "Is that what you meant, my lord?

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Up
  • Done
  • Red

• The ring, the call, the surprise, the shock that you have out-of-doors - be always looking for the unexpected in nature, do not settle to a formula.

  

  Charles Webster Hawthorne
  • Nature
  • Unexpected
  • Formula

• For no one by the law of nature is bound to please another, unless he chooses, nor to hold anything to be good or evil, but what he himself, according to his own temperament, pronounces to be so; and, to speak generally, nothing is forbidden by the law of nature, except what is beyond everyone's power.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Nature
  • Law
  • Bound

• Fortunately I didn't get educated because if I'd got educated I'd be an educated fool now.

  

  David Bailey
  • Fool