Bits Quote by George Saunders Download Open image “I have this tendency to take a little bit of questionable knowledge and riff on it.” — George Saunders ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bits Little bit Littles Questionable Tendencies
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I'm suspicious of too much certainty in the pursuit of understanding just because I think people are limited in their understanding. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
You always get exaggerated notions of things you don't know anything about. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Too much of this book knowledge just leads to doubts and confusion. You get too many doubts asking 'what is this?' and 'what is… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge fan of research, but sometimes you get an idea, and then you realize you don't know anything. — Lisa Lutz Copy Share Image
You always get exaggerated notions about things you don't know anything about. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The more I learn about stuff the more conscious I become of grave gaps in my knowledge. — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
The curious hocus-pocus of criticism I can't take seriously. It consists in squirreling up some odd phrases and then waiting for a book to… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“It is the intriguing job of genre scholars to figure out what lies behind what everyone already knows.” — Amy J. Devitt Copy Share Image
You have to realize what you don't know before you can learn about it. — Christopher Jones Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel like I must be hinting at this deep well of knowledge when, really, I just skim off the surface. — Ryan North Copy Share Image
I wouldn't presume to know something, but I have lots to learn and that's what I attempt to do through my work. — Joe Wright Copy Share Image
Success is like a mountain in front of you that keeps growing. If you're not careful, it will take up your whole life. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Wow wow wow is all I can say! Remember how I always buy lunchtime Scratch-Off ticket? Have I said? Maybe did not say? Well,… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“None of it was real; nothing was real. Everything was real; inconceivably real, infinitely dear. These and all things started as nothing, latent within… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“We must see God not as a Him (some linear rewarding fellow) but an IT, a great beast beyond our understanding, who wants something… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
America, to me, should be shouting all the time, a bunch of shouting voices, most of them wrong, some of them nuts, but please,… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
In my case, when I am trying to be "kind" I often default in a sort of toothless loving-all stance that is, actually, not… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Whatever your supposed politics are - left, right - if you put it in a human connection, most people will rise to the occasion… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“A Clinton staffer tells me his theory. Think about Frank Sinatra, he says: born to sing. Think about Willie Mays: born to play ball.… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“You were torturing a cat," she says. "With a freaking prod." "A prod I built myself in metal shop," he says. "But of course… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Rachel got up and did this happy little shuffle, like she was some cheerful farmer chick who'd just stepped outside to find the hick… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
What America is, to me, is a guy doesn't want to buy, you let him not buy, you respect his not buying. A guy… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Brad [Dourif] would tell himself that he was not intentionally trying to mimic Jack Nicholson in any way. I think that actually bothers him… — David Kirschner Copy Share Image
There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party...and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I became a bit of a teacher's pet, and it became known in the school by both faculty and students that I really excelled… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
The happy medium is television. And if you find a good suitor, you can do it for years. With movies, you roll the dice.… — Bruce Campbell Copy Share Image
If I had my brothers I think with just a little bit of the correct marketing, I'd like to be almost exclusively in small… — Terry Bozzio Copy Share Image
Talented people can predict with great accuracy what's about to happen just a tiny bit ahead of their competitors. It might be two seconds… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
He referred to me as an 'insufferable puffed-up prat'. This is a bit rich coming from a man who actually married his own mother. — Steven Morrissey Copy Share Image
It won't do you a bit of good to know everything if you don't do anything with it. — Louise Fitzhugh Copy Share Image
I was told I had brain damage. I always knew it was an unfair label. Now I have a clearer understanding of what's wrong… — Susan Boyle Copy Share Image
I think that's the beauty of the current setup, is that Legends is meant to be a bit of a revolving door. — Wentworth Miller Copy Share Image
We, as pop stars, are people not androids. We’ve got views. I’ve got opinions and I don’t see why I shouldn’t use a bit… — Roger Meddows Taylor Copy Share Image
In terms of style, too, I think I've been working with a somewhat limited -- although intentionally limited -- set of tools. So I'm… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image