Lane Kiffin Quotes

Perhaps the biggest myth about cynicism is that it deepens with age. I think what really happens is that experience painfully rips away layers of scales from our eyes, and so we do indeed become more cynical about many of the things we naively accepted when younger.

Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics.

I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young.

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

I've been around a while. I kinda know these things.

I'm not an idiot.

I'm too busy acting like I'm not Naive. I've seen it all, I was here first.

Back when I was an idealistic 18-year-old on my way to Chicago, I might have believed that being on the side of virtue would guarantee a good outcome. These many years later, I know better.

I'm not as naive as some people think.

Alas! innocence is but a poor substitute for experience.

I've seen it all, done it all, known it all.

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

I am not an idiot, and I'm not a Pollyanna sort of kumbaya type.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.

I've yet to meet a bitter teenager. Bitterness, jealousy and jadedness, I think, are the most unattractive qualities in a person, and unfortunately they do seem to come with age.

I must take issue with the term 'a mere child', for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

People often yearn back to more innocent times, but more and more, as I get older, I find myself hankering after more jaded days.

I'm young but I'm not stupid.

That's the thing, when you play younger characters they're always less casual. You're hungrier or more naive. Those things wane in time.

An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.

Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.

In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.