Elinore Denniston Quotes

I just like being a kid. I enjoy it, I don't want to grow up.

Don't you ever grow up, it could stay this simple.

You are very familiar with Western ways, but you are too young. You go everywhere to follow the big news, but the questions you ask are too simple -- sometimes naive.

We're children. We're supposed to be childish.

With stupidity and sound digestion, man may front much.

I have remained a simple fellow who asks nothing of the world; only my youth is gone - the enchanting youth that forever walks on air.

Happy contractedness of youth, nay, of mankind in general, that they think neither of the high nor the deep, of the true nor the false, but only of what is suited to their own conceptions.

A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish.

Keep yourself simple, good, pure, serious, and unassuming; the friend of justice and godliness; kindly, affectionate, and resolute in your devotion to duty.

The young are always in extremes.

I just didn't see films when I was young. I was stupid and naïve. Maybe I wouldn't have made films if I had seen lots of others; maybe it would have stopped me.

[Saniyya Sidney] was very serious about her work and her craft, and she wanted to be good, and she wanted to work on it. So I said, "Ok." It was as simple as that. She was just right. She just has it.

The simple-hearted and sincere never do more than half deceive themselves.

Delight and liberty, the simple creed of childhood.

I think it's important for people to realize that we were all young, all naive, and also we had lived in a time that had magic.

And a puzzle is for the piecing together, especially for the young, who still believe it can be done.

Young people are thoughtless as a rule.

When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.

Foolish is my happiness, and foolish things will it speak: it is still too young—so have patience with it!

We all know how to be a child.

No one's serious at seventeen.

Some of my best friedns are children. In fact, all of my best friends are children.

I think people can stand to take themselves just a little less seriously. I'm fighting the war against pretension.

-You're simple, straightforward and honest, a little bit on the primitive side, I should think. To interest you a woman would have to... -To lay her cards out on the table.

But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there.