Garrison Wynn Quotes

Being stupid is not as frustrating as being brilliant for 5 seconds and then average for the rest of your life

Garrison Wynn

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• You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • People
  • Life
  • Chance

• I won't allow magazines in the house. When I was younger, I wanted to have my hair cut like so-and-so in the class above me at school, not somebody in a magazine. You see young girls trying to dress like so-and-so because they've seen lots of pictures of them.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • School
  • Girls
  • Pictures

• I've been on a state of high alert since high school. I didn't need 9/11 to remind me that we live on a ball of flame.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Live
  • School
  • High

• It's weird. I don't really have goals. I just try to make sure I'm enjoying what I'm doing. Once I start to get sick of it, the next thing becomes obvious.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • Weird
  • Goals
  • Sick

• People tell you everything changes when you have a kid, but what nobody says is you don't mind.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • People
  • Mind
  • Changes

• I met Will Smith twice. I didn't talk to him for too long but I was trying to let him know that my age group grew up watching him - he was the coolest guy on television and the coolest guy in movies.

  

  J. Cole
  • Up
  • Long
  • Trying

• The biographical novel sets out to document this truth, for character is plot, character development is action, and character fulfillment is resolution.

  

  Irving Stone
  • Character
  • Truth
  • Action

• I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Think
  • Growing
  • Loss

• Partir, c'est mourir un peu... mais mourir, c'est partir beaucoup.

  

  Alphonse Allais

• Prayer in private results in boldness in public.

  

  Edwin Louis Cole
  • Prayer

• I would never say anything's over forever. How could you possibly know how you feel? How could you shut the door on anything?

  

  Jenny Lewis
  • Forever
  • Door

• The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.

  

  Chanakya
  • World
  • Power

• I think in terms of content and subjects and whatever kind of production it dictates. Can I conceive of an idea that would really connect with my personal rhythms and cost a lot of money? I don't gravitate in that direction, but it is possible.

  

  Bennett Miller
  • Money

• Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.

  

  Christopher Lasch
  • Today

• I love college life.

  

  Lil' Romeo
  • Life
  • College

• Conversations create change. It's easy to call someone 'enemy,' but there's more to it, right?

  

  Elliot Page
  • Enemy

• Football was my sport. I was fast. I was a free safety.

  

  Paul Walker
  • Free
  • Football
  • Safety

• I remember being a kid, and if you had to pee, well, you had to hold it until the commercial break. Then you rushed, and hopefully, if you're going to the kitchen for a snack, you'll be back before so you don't miss a line. If your sister sneezed or was talking over a line, there was no way of knowing what that line was or what the joke was.

  

  America Ferrera
  • Remember
  • Sister
  • Kitchen

• The sword was odd. The Arab Movement was one: Feisal another (his name means a flashing sword): then there is the excluded notion, Garden of Eden touch: and the division meaning, like the sword in the bed of mixed sleeping, from the Morte d'Arthur. I don't know which was in your mind, but they all came to me - and the sword also means clean-ness, and death.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Mind
  • Death
  • Garden

• ...poking a lump of red Jello that jiggles outrageously, like a breast I once knew.

  

  Sara Gruen
  • Breasts
  • Jello

• Not everybody is absolutely stupid. Why on earth would I be racist, what would I be trying to achieve?

  

  Morrissey The Smiths
  • Trying
  • Why
  • Earth

• Some movies, I think, present ideas of the world that just don't help people with their lives. They just present things that are fleeting or stupid. So that's what I'm careful about - making sure I'm part of something that is saying something that I think is valuable in the world of people, not necessarily in the world of art.

  

  Alden Ehrenreich
  • People
  • World
  • Art

• It's never been an issue for me - I don't want to go on a diet, I don't want to eat a Caesar salad with no dressing, why would I do that? I ain't got time for this, just be happy and don't be stupid. If I've got a boyfriend and he loves my body then I'm not worried.

  

  Adele
  • Time
  • Why
  • Happy

• Being stupid is not as frustrating as being brilliant for 5 seconds and then average for the rest of your life

  

  Garrison Wynn
  • Stupid
  • Brilliant
  • Average