Socrates Quotes

Is it not, then, better to be ridiculous and friendly than clever and hostile?

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• Buildings are always better than drawings and models.

  

  Rafael Moneo
  • Always
  • Better
  • Buildings

• When I was a little girl, I told everyone I was going to marry a very clever scientist and have ten children. I would always draw the children, and they included blond-haired twin boys whom I named Theodore and Frederick: Teddy and Freddy for short.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Children
  • Girl
  • Clever

• I get tired of comedies where there are a bunch of funny guys and a beautiful woman who doesn't do anything funny. And I don't like books where there's a rough-and-tumble boy and a really clever, snotty girl. That's just not my experience with teenagers.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Experience
  • Beautiful
  • Girl

• I think the National League has better biorhythms in July.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Think
  • Better
  • July

• Brad Pitt is a dude who just wants to make good movies. He's not afraid to surround himself with the greatest actors, which I always appreciate because I've also seen actors who only want to surround themselves with weak actors because it makes them look better. That ends up making a poorer movie.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Up
  • Good
  • Movie

• But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Like
  • Better
  • Say

• What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.

  

  Pat Barker
  • Hate
  • Better
  • Author

• I'm a better polemicist in prose.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Better
  • Prose

• I had the taste of the alcohol since I was 11. It allowed me to be clever, charming and to behave outrageously. Acting also allowed me not to be me. So I could indulge every fantasy in this paradise of America.

  

  Malachy McCourt
  • America
  • Clever
  • Alcohol

• I'm a jeans fanatic. It's ridiculous how many jeans I have.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Ridiculous
  • Many
  • Jeans

• Nothing is better than peace, by which all warfare of heavenly and earthly foes is brought to naught.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • Peace
  • Better
  • Nothing

• I got tired of books where the boy is a bit thick and the girl's very clever. Why does it have to such an opposition? Why can't they be like the girls and boys that I know personally, who are equally funny and equally cross? Who get things equally wrong and are equally brave? And make the same mistakes?

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Why
  • Girl
  • Funny

• I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Up
  • Time
  • Myself

• My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.'

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Work
  • Better
  • Beauty

• I think most of us sense that it is a responsibility of the humanities to try to help better the conduct of human beings in their lives and manifold professional activities.

  

  J. Irwin Miller
  • Help
  • Responsibility
  • Better

• There just needs to be a gay rapper. He doesn't have to be flamboyant, just a rapper who identifies as gay - who's better than everybody. Unfortunately hip-hop is so competitive that in order for fringe groups to get in, you gotta be better than whoever's the best.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Best
  • Gay
  • Better

• The more far-out artists, the better.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Better
  • More
  • Artists

• Pun was just a natural-born genius with music, and he basically taught me so many tricks on how to make better music, even though I was the one that discovered him. He was so far advanced than me; he taught me a lot.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Music
  • Better
  • Genius

• Pierre Trudeau was too much of a professional politician to be described as a good man, nor, it can be argued despite much pubilicity to the contrary, was he a particularly clever or even wise one. But he was a great man, perhaps the gratest Canada has produced in this century.

  

  Peter Brimelow
  • Good
  • Great
  • Wise

• We are bits of energy floating about in various guises, and when we die we rejoin the big cosmic soup of the universe.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Energy
  • Die
  • Universe

• The Make in India campaign has taken off and is backed with skill development. It is going to open new vistas for employment for the youth.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Taken
  • Development
  • Youth

• The fact is that at different stages of your life, and under the influence of different inspirations, you write different things. The point is not necessarily to find your voice, which grinds out the same sort of thing again and again, but to find a vehicle for people who are far more important than the author: the characters.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Thinking
  • Age
  • Today

• Is it not, then, better to be ridiculous and friendly than clever and hostile?

  

  Socrates
  • Better
  • Clever
  • Ridiculous