Professional’ does not necessarily mean that the person so labelled is good or knows what they are doing. In many a case, it merely means that they do whatever that they are a professional at for a living, not as a hobby.
Though you can get smart from reading everything that a smart person writes, you cannot get famous from reading about everything that a famous person does or is said to have done.
Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; th...
What can you do if you are thirty and, turning the corner of your own street, you are overcome, suddenly, by a feeling of bliss - absolute bliss - as though you'd suddenly swallowed a bright piece of that late afternoon sun and it burned in your boso...
When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be ve...
The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) chan...
We were no longer, technically, children although in many ways I am quite sure that we were. Childish has become a term of contempt. "Don't be childish, darling." "I hope to Christ I am. Don't be childish yourself." It is possible to be grateful that...
The goal of art-making in general is communication.
We're children. We're supposed to be childish.
Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.
Lack of charisma can be fatal.
Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
Inside, I feel 30ish - I'm childish and optimistic.
The biggest awakening is the awakening from the childish deceptions and the invented tales of the religion.
An honest government is the childish dream of the gullible men!
Dying people often become childish.
Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.
I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.
You say he's childish, but he's very professional about business transactions.
You can’t confuse childlike faith with childish thinking.
