Pat Oliphant Quotes

The heart is forever inexperienced.

I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.

The essence of the show is that SpongeBob is an innocent in a world of jaded characters. The rest is absurd packaging.

I think sometimes naivety can be a gift.

Being a little naive can work to your advantage.

I've played a lot of wide-eyed kids.

Sometimes it's good to be naive.

One of the great things about kids is they haven't heard a lot of the old jokes. You can get away with the corny ones.

I've got a lot of experience under my belt, but I still have a very naive and idealistic outlook on life.

The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.

Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?

Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.

Cynicism stems from disappointment. Cynical and faithless people were not always like that. They were filled with possibilities and hope as kids. But they tried and perhaps failed.

Maybe I am naive about certain things. But I'm glad. I know all I want to know.

I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.

I was naive enough to think that I could make the difference.

The natural idealism of youth is an idealism, alas, for which we do not always provide as many outlets as we should.

Everybody is idealistic when you're a kid.

I think there's an innocence to me.

I have a naive outlook on life. That's who I am.

I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now.

Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world.

Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.

I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it.

Youth is easily deceived, because it is quick to hope.