Scott Adams Quotes

We're a planet of nearly six billion ninnies living in a civilization that was designed by a few thousand amazingly smart deviants.

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• Buying a matching blouse and skirt from the same store is a crime. A clever mix of chic and cheap hits the jackpot. Know how to mix styles and labels.

  

  Ines de La Fressange
  • Know
  • Same
  • Clever

• I hate being asked how I met my husband and very personal questions like that. I don't like that. People are too nosey. Intelligent questions I like, but sometimes people ask such silly, dopey ones.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Hate
  • Husband

• The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • World
  • Truth
  • Energy

• As an actor, I want to build a career as an actor. It's hard to even get a job sometimes, so as my career builds, I can be more picky than I used to be.

  

  Randy Wayne
  • Job
  • Want
  • Career

• As human beings, we all have reasons for our behavior. There may be people who have certain physiological issues that dictate why they make certain choices. On the whole, though, I think we're dictated by our structure, our past, our environment, our culture. So once you understand the patterns that shape a person, how can you not find sympathy?

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Why
  • May

• The thing is that pictures are everywhere. The question is what we don't see, and why don't we see so much. I just see it.

  

  Harold Feinstein
  • Why
  • Question
  • See

• A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding.

  

  Lara St. John
  • World
  • Good
  • Men

• John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls - indeed, as a teenager he had a crush on a beautiful Jewish girl who fled his hometown just ahead of the arrival of the Germans.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Up
  • Beautiful
  • Girl

• The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Humor
  • Laughter
  • Days

• Where a man's heart is, there is his treasure also.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Heart
  • Man
  • Treasure

• It's my job to know what's available from every retailer, catalog, website, antiques mall, and craftsperson. A good designer or decorator has to have an almost encyclopedic knowledge.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Good
  • Job
  • Knowledge

• If you could breathe a breath so strong you could blow out the wolf. Like you blow out the copo. Like you blow out the fire from the candela. The wolf is made the way the world is made. You cannot touch the world. You cannot hold it in your hand for it is made of breath only.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • World
  • Strong
  • Hand

• I love, when I'm on holiday in cities, going into church and feeling that reverence and that kind of automatic respect: the sort of magic which exists in those kind of religious temples.

  

  James Norton
  • Feeling
  • Respect
  • Church

• I love to create clothing for the everyday woman. I get joy out of that because it's something that we need in this industry.

  

  Ashley Nell Tipton
  • Joy
  • Everyday

• Everything I've done until 'The Jeffersons' - the plays, the movies, the soap operas - were all in New York.

  

  Franklin Cover
  • Done

• I knew when I got into this business I couldn't have it both ways: I could live the playboy lifestyle, which is not a bad thing to do, or have a traditional family life, which is how I grew up. And that was more important to me.

  

  Chris O'Donnell
  • Life
  • Up
  • Important

• Every so often, when I am feeling plucky, I try to write a screenplay that combines all 10 of Americans' top phobias and market it as a sleeper hit.

  

  Alexandra Petri
  • Feeling

• My favorite TV show ever is 'Boy Meets World,' and my favorite movie is 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off.'

  

  Kris Allen
  • World
  • Movie
  • Boy

• Everyone has a part to play. We have the power. You can do it.

  

  Maxine Waters
  • Power

• When I saw Wonder Woman being constantly put in positions where she'd get tied up with her own rope, or held hostage, even as a kid, my reaction was 'C'mon, she's too smart for that.'

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Woman
  • Wonder
  • Smart

• I was just a goofy little funny kid, who was always getting sent to the principal. It wasn't serious because I was smart. I wasn't like a true troublemaker, just rambunctious - like, talkative and trying to be funny. That was me in middle-school.

  

  J. Cole
  • Trying
  • School
  • True

• 'The Daily' from the 'New York Times' - which offers smart analysis of one key story - sets the pace here, and can see you through one standard train commute.

  

  David Hepworth
  • Smart
  • Daily

• We're a planet of nearly six billion ninnies living in a civilization that was designed by a few thousand amazingly smart deviants.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Smart
  • Civilization
  • Billions