I don't know if it's naivete or just narcissism, but I start out with this notion that I can do anything. It's… — Michelle Pfeiffer Copy Share Image
If you're going to exude naivete, you can't really... walk out there like it's a Sting show. You can't be that well… — Frank Black Copy Share Image
If it so happened that I had once written a best-seller, this was a pure accident, due to inattention and naivete, and… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“If Edgar sounded overeager, even rushed, the race was with his own temperament. He placed a premium on savvy. Yet since you… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
I really believe in completely being naive and having high hopes when meeting someone new. I can kind of re-do my stupidity… — Fiona Apple Copy Share Image
Dieter Dengler was an amazing man. Who knows what he would've been had he not ever been tested in this way? It's… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
“[H]e was still young enough to think that there was something fundamentally inhuman about thinking more than one step ahead at a… — Hal Clement Copy Share Image
Rosemary bubbled with delight at the trunks. Her naivete responded whole-heartedly to the expensive simplicity of the Divers, unaware of its complexity… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now. — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
“We try to bring up our children so that they are protected from the world's evils, only to find we've raised a… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
I think that the worst form of naivete can be extreme cynicism. If you think that nobody comes to Washington to do… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
People like to use the word 'naivete' as a negative, but not for me. — Brian Tyree Henry Copy Share Image
I gravitated to acting out of a mixture of instinct, naivete and opportunity. — Jeffrey Combs Copy Share Image
It is hard to think of any work of art of which one can say 'this saved the life of one Jew,… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
“Commercial comedy's often set up to feature an ironist making devastating sport of someone who's naive or sentimental or pretentious or pompous.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Most often, what I don’t know will have a vastly greater bearing on my life that what I do know.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Sometimes a good idea comes to you when you are not looking for it. Through an improbable combination of coincidence, naivete and… — Kary Mullis Copy Share Image
Emotional discomfort, when accepted, rises, crests and falls in a series of waves. Each wave washes a part of us away and… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“...if you bare your arse to a vengeful unicorn, the number of possible outcomes dwindles to one.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
The style of writing required in the great world is distinguished by a free and daring grace, a careless security, a fine… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“..en av os bondestudenter som er blit skadet indvortes ved å bli overflyttet til fremmed jord og atmosfære, han er en liten… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
I felt the naivete of a child in my dancing. I cherished that feeling. I had what I call a knowledgeable naivete,… — Judith Jamison Copy Share Image
“A lot of the situations that we put ourselves in are similar to a cat in a yard full of dogs. We… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
