Philip Wylie Quotes

What egotism, what stupid vanity, to suppose that a thing could not happen because you could not conceive it!

Philip Wylie

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• When you are intelligent and beautiful you face a lot of problems. If you are beautiful and stupid then it's easy.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
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  • Problems

• I don't know how to speak to celebrities. Every time I talk to Alan Menken, I say something stupid and I have to apologize.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Time
  • Stupid
  • Speak

• There's more to life than being an actor in a Hollywood movie. I'm not going to adapt my life after that existence, where a lot of people do. And they get the publicist, and they get all that stuff, and it becomes them. I think it's a stupid way to live your life. A really dumb way to live your life.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• For if you train hard and responsibly your confidence surges to a maximum.

  

  Floyd Patterson
  • You
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• You have to be an optimist, right? You have to be critical, then you have to be an optimist. Or else you're really stupid.

  

  Ted Danson
  • You
  • Stupid
  • Optimist

• The Jews have never been ashamed of being Jews, whereas homosexuals have been stupid enough to be ashamed of their homosexuality.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Stupid
  • Jews
  • Homosexuality

• If we didn't have the Albanian entrepreneurial spirit and financial support from the diaspora, this stupid political class would have destroyed the country by now.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Country
  • Political
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• Stress overload makes us stupid. Solid research proves it. When we get overstressed, it creates a nasty chemical soup in our brains that makes it hard to pull out of the anxious depressive spiral.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Stupid
  • Stress
  • Research

• They say military have the so-called 'secret intelligence' - this amount of intelligence must be very secret, since I've never seen any intelligent military person, nor I have seen any sense in the bloody stupid wars.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Military
  • Stupid
  • Intelligent

• I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a 'learning experience.' It makes me feel less stupid.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Done
  • Experience
  • Learning

• I don't have a job, so I sit in the studio all the time and think of stupid stuff to do.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Time
  • Job
  • Stupid

• I love Washington, D.C.; I love this country, but I think over the last hundred years we've built up would I call an arrogant empire: people who think the rest of us are too stupid to make our own decisions.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • People
  • Country
  • Think

• With every animal, you have to build its confidence around people because people do some crazy and stupid things.

  

  Ian Dunbar
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Confidence

• I think making friends is not being afraid to look stupid, because everyone wants a friend who is willing to be stupid and fun. If you try and be too cool, it only works in high school. After that, being uncool is a very cool thing to do. So just have fun, and don't worry what other people think of you and people will want to be your friends.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • People
  • School
  • Friends

• I became famous so quickly and so young - it was daunting. I was immature and I used to say some really stupid things in interviews. I never smiled on stage so I looked really serious, but it was because I hated my teeth and was incredibly nervous.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Serious
  • Stupid
  • Famous

• I get asked that almost every day, but I've been saying the same thing... I'm not going to take any more stupid questions about Donald Trump. It's not what I focus on every day.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Day
  • Focus
  • Stupid

• Doing the press has become as much of a job as getting in front of the camera. You have to avoid burnout, avoid saying anything stupid, but still come across as yourself.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Job
  • Stupid
  • Yourself

• Talent deserves to be honored. Hands deserve to be slapped if you do something stupid as well, but don't take it too far.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Stupid
  • Hands
  • Talent

• Stupidity is much the same all the world over. A stupid person's notions and feelings may confidently be inferred from those which prevail in the circle by which the person is surrounded. Not so with those whose opinions and feelings are an emanation from their own nature and faculties.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • World
  • May
  • Nature

• By 1914, the royal families of Europe were inbred to the point of pantomine. You feel about them as you do about koalas. Nothing so stupid has any right to exist on the planet. On the other hand, they are rather cute, and in grave danger of extinction due to their specialised needs.

  

  Nancy Banks Smith
  • Hand
  • Stupid
  • Cute

• When I was growing up, there was nobody in my family - not even my mother - who I could look to and be like, 'I know you've never said anything homophobic.' So, you know, you worry about people in the business who you've heard talk that way. Some of my heroes coming up talk recklessly like that.

  

  Frank Ocean
  • People
  • Up
  • Family

• It's strange that those we miss the mostAre those we take for granted.

  

  John Betjeman

• In the proposed EPA rule, every norm of radiation protection that has been established for the general public since the late 1950s ... is to be thrown overboard.

  

  Arjun Makhijani
  • Rule
  • Protection
  • Overboard

• What egotism, what stupid vanity, to suppose that a thing could not happen because you could not conceive it!

  

  Philip Wylie
  • Stupid