Richard Adams Quotes

I don't expect anybody to know who I am.

I am not very smart, but I recognize that I am not very smart.

I prefer being a small fish in a big pond.

I don't think that I'm that sophisticated. Maybe I'm not aware of it, I don't know.

Mature? Yeah, I get told that a lot. I don't know if it's true. I guess I try to be bright.

I don't think I'm that intelligent. I think I'm semi-intelligent.

I don't see myself as a personality. I'm just another little guy.

I'm nobody, who are you?

I am not smarter than anyone else.

I am not aware I am an icon.

My life has been charmed in the sense that I've met some extraordinary people. But at the end of the day, when you go home and you go to bed, and if you're on your own, you never think of yourself in that way. I'm sure not even people like Angelina Jolie think like that.

It took me coming to the Midwest to realize I was the jerk. People are so nice here. They're so grounded.

New York will make you feel small. I think that's good. At least, it's good for me.

I don't think of myself as anyone special, and I would not know how to define myself.

I've stopped taking myself seriously because now I understand how fickle my thoughts are.

I guess I just would never be so arrogant as to think that anybody would even recognize me. I didn't even think about it.

I don't ever want to make taking pictures into another way of saying 'Here I am'. Because I'm as here as I want to be.

The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so.

I don't want to feel that I'm a singer or an actress - being able to say that those are just experiences is what I enjoy.

What we cut off from our other faults is very often but so much added to our pride.

I always have the feeling that I'm just another human being.

To overestimate the originality of one's thoughts is perhaps a less serious defect than being unaware of their newness. There is a more pronounced lack of sensitivity in underestimating (ourselves and others) than in overestimating.

She was not an existence, an experience, a passion, a structure of sensations, to anybody but herself. To all humankind besides Tess was only a passing thought. Even to friends she was no more than a frequently passing thought.

Who knows his virtues name or place, hath none.

No man is great if he thinks he is.