(85 quotes found)
“I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.”
Johnny Carson
“I was naive, but I certainly was not duplicitous.”
Ann Landers
“It's no good being nice and young and naive. There's no good in that at all. You've got to do it all yourself, and you've gotta learn quick. And you can't look for sympathy either.”
Johnny Rotten
“In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history.”
Albert Camus
“It's naive to think you can change a person--except maybe that boy who works in the library.”
Yeardley Smith
“It's a naive domestic little Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption”
James Thurber
“Dickinson got what he deserved. Was Dickinson so naive to think that I was going to let him get away with talking . . . about my family night after night?”
Ozzy Osbourne
“I took the role of Ophelia in Hamlet because she is so naive, loving, and innocent.”
Julia Stiles
“Yeah, I am a hick. I am naive, and I am sincere and it's wonderfully unfashionable.”
Michelle Shocked
“I'm not taking it very seriously. Maybe I'm naive, but surely there's going to be gas, it's just what you have to pay for it.”
Brian Henry
