Richard Pryor Quotes

You don't get to be old bein' no fool.

Richard Pryor

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• Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Courage
  • Fool
  • Intelligent

• 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

• If your character is just out there acting a fool, viewers are gonna say, 'Why am I watching this?' But if he's whispering, 'I don't really want to die,' there's a level of vulnerability cemented in these bad characters.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Why
  • Character
  • Bad

• Come purge my soul, Thou Master of my days,Of vain and empty words, of idle ways,Of base ambition and the urge to rule;That hidden serpent that corrupts a fool;and grant me, Lord, to see my sins alone.That I not call my brother to atone;Make chaste my heart and lend me from aboveThy fortitude, humility, and love.

  

  Alexander Pushkin
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Words

• What beats me - it always does - is how a man can be so clever and yet be such a perfect fool.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Perfect
  • Fool
  • Clever

• Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be? What am I doing in an office, making a contemptuous, begging fool of myself, when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am!

  

  Arthur Miller
  • Trying
  • Why
  • Waiting

• I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.

  

  Daniel J. Boorstin
  • Good
  • Real
  • Bad

• Radical jihadists hate Americans for who we are. They cannot be managed. They cannot be trusted. Engaging them is a tragic fool's errand. We need to realize that they are at war with us and that we cannot control their motivations. We instead need to confront them, contain them, and ultimately defeat them before they defeat us.

  

  Pete Hoekstra
  • War
  • Hate
  • Control

• Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

  

  Charles Simmons
  • Fool

• You can fool the people once, twice, but you can't fool them all the time. You should tell them honestly what you can do for them.

  

  Piyush Goyal
  • People
  • Time
  • Fool

• It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

  

  Mark Twain
  • People
  • Doubt
  • Fool

• Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.

  

  John Dryden
  • Fool

• There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.

  

  Diogenes
  • Wise
  • Fool

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

  

  David Bailey
  • Fool

• Yes, I know that you feel you are not strong enough. That's what the enemy thinks too. But we're gonna fool them.

  

  Knute Rockne
  • Strong
  • Enemy
  • Fool

• I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Time
  • Fool
  • Firsts

• 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 fools think I am writing algebra but what I am really writing is geometry.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Fool

• There are moments from childhood that attract heat in our memories, some for their sublime brilliance, some for their malignancy. The first time that I was treated differently because of my race is one such memory.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • Time
  • Moments
  • Childhood

• When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Great
  • Music
  • Art

• I love the most the students with troubled lives.

  

  Wally Lamb
  • Love
  • Students
  • Troubled

• I’m used to that. It often seems to me that’s all detective work is - wiping out your false starts and beginning again.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Work
  • Beginning

• I got jury duty and I didn't want to go, so my friend said, "You should write something really really racist on the form when you return it. Like, you should put 'I hate chinks'." And I said, "I'm not going to put that on there just to get out of jury duty. I don't want people to think that about me." So instead I wrote, "I love chinks." And who doesn't?

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• You don't get to be old bein' no fool.

  

  Richard Pryor
  • Fool