Fooling Quotations

Casey knew his baseball. He only made it look like he was fooling around. He knew every move that was ever invented and some that we haven't even caught on to yet.

Our experience in fooling around with the genes of mice has taught us that many of the traits that interest us are not definite products of specific mutations but emergent phenomena arising from extremely complex interactions between genes, environment, and life experience.

I think people involved in politics make good actors. Acting and politics both involve fooling people. People like being fooled by actors. When you get right down to it, they probably like being fooled by politicians even more. A skillful actor will make you think, but a skillful politician will make you never have to think.

When you multitask, you believe you're being exceptionally productive, but really, you're fooling yourself. Each time you switch tasks, you have to backtrack a little and remind yourself where you are in the process and what's next. Invariably. you are spending twice as much time on parts of the task.

As we begin to leave Afghanistan, are we fooling ourselves about what we are leaving behind or what we have promised the people of Afghanistan? Especially the women and girls?

I didn't realize how much harm I was doing back then and I think a lot of rap artists probably don't realize it now. I said a lot of stuff fooling around back then, and I saw it do a lot of harm.

I was the class clown so I was used to performing and fooling around in front of my friends.

The fact of the matter is that if we were going to do anything about Gaddafi, it should have been at the beginning. And by fooling around like this as long as we have, we have wasted an opportunity that would have gotten rid of him.

I was fooling around at school. I was acting like a kid. Once I signed and knew I was going to prep school, everything pretty much fell off. I didn't feel like BC treated me right.

I was fooling everyone by surrounding myself with funny people. But then I put myself out there - writing my own sketches, going on stage with nobody surrounding me - and for some reason people were still laughing.

So many times, you see guys getting hurt whether they're just fooling around or not playing very hard. For me, I have to keep up with the routine, play like every game may be my last.

Leah is good at changing her speeds up and really fooling a batter. Morgan will play infield and back Leah up, so that's always helpful. But Leah, I mean she really has the ability to put the ball anywhere and give our defense something to work with.

Categories are a drag. It's groove music. We don't just jam, the songs have parts. We don't just go off into oblivion. There is a beginning, middle and end with room for fooling around in the middle.

He was just fooling around while waiting for a charter.

If we pass reforms that either pretend they're not here or pretend they'll go away, we're fooling ourselves.

He is grateful for becoming so successful in America, and wants to give back. He's not fooling around, and he's an incredibly brilliant man. Through this research, we might find solutions to problems we don't even understand.

I feel great at the moment. In many ways, this is the best time of my life. I'm not fooling with alcohol or drugs anymore and I really feel in great health. I also quit smoking cigarettes when I had my car accident so I have a lot more breath control and can hit notes that I hadn't hit for years.

He is just fooling around. Its normal for Lin Dan to drop a set but in the end, he will secure the match. When everyone starts questioning his condition, he will prove his prowess and that's Lin Dan for you.

I think what y'all do is vital to our community. I think we're fooling ourselves if we think the square foot (of a house) determines the characteristic of a neighborhood. I hope this passes tonight. One-size-fits-all may have been appropriate at one time, but now we may be in a situation where one size doesn't fit anymore.

I wasn't tired. I just wasn't fooling anybody. They were hitting pitches they were missing earlier in the game. I got behind on a few people ... and just couldn't put away that last out.

I was really making fun of Red Fisher.... I called him the man who thought that nothing would bore you. He thought it was his job to fill the half hour, it was your job to make it interesting. And I thought, 'Oh boy, that's something I can do.' I took his character and started fooling around.

That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it.... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself. - The Dream Game

That's the way I work. Usually I start by fooling with the stuff, make messes. Sometimes something comes out of it; sometimes it doesn't.

There are two re-entries fooling users this month. The Elf Bowling hoax, which has made a festive re-appearance, warns users that the game is infected with a virus and should be deleted immediately upon receipt. This hoax is essentially harmless, but serves as a reminder to companies that they should explain to employees the danger of distributing executable files. The game, while not a malicious threat, can divert employees from doing real work.

What I don't want to see us do is keep fooling ourselves and say we're going to let Citizens handle it, the Cat Fund handle it, which is saying we have insurance when we really don't. All we're doing is creating this mechanism to tax ourselves at a level, frankly, our state can't sustain.

Well, I would be fooling my-self if I said it didn't set us back some, because it did. After all, we were looking to have them eventually run for state legislative seats in the near future.

This ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no fooling around.

We were always the two fooling around in meetings.

The ethos of not fooling yourself is one of the best you could possibly have. It's powerful because it's so rare.

Unless my players are fooling me, I think they have no clue to how big this is. I don?t think they understand the magnitude of what high school football is like there, and what we?re getting into. On one hand, it worries me. And on the other hand, I?m OK with them not flipping out on this thing.

We're not above fooling ourselves. But it's the workers who are telling us that if there was ever a chance to bring changes, this is the year.

We are at crisis point. I think anybody that sees this nation as being on stable economic or fiscal ground is fooling themselves.

Bobby is always pictured as this very reclusive guy with angst, and he isn't. A lot of his fooling is done among friends. He's a terrific mime

At the end of the day, I know that I make my living by dressing up, fooling around, playing pranks and giving people a good time. I am enjoying the ride.

I started fooling around with the intro to one of the songs. Then another song, and another. I was so excited when I went into the studio.

Auckland rested some of their key players and I reckon they are just fooling around with everyone. They'll win.

They started fooling around with it. I never pushed them into it. They?re all pretty knowledgeable, and have a good understanding of the game.

They shouldn't have celebrated ahead of time. It's one thing to slow the game down, but you can get in trouble when you start fooling around with the ball before it's all over.

They think that God doesn't really heal, so these guys are just fooling the world.

People who don't think that it's all about him are fooling themselves. Does he think this is the best thing possible for the team? I mean, they have one quarterback on the roster (Aaron Rodgers) who they like. ... they have to know.

People who don't think that it's all about him are fooling themselves. With a quote like, 'What are they going to do, cut me?' It's all about him.

Sami last week had a collision with one of our players when they were fooling around. He hurt his shoulder and had an MRI performed on him yesterday. The results were that he's got a slap tear, they call that, and a partial thickness tear of his rotator cuff. He'll have surgery early next week, and will miss approximately 10 weeks from the date of surgery.

People see me in the suit and they know I'm not fooling anyone, they know I'm rock and roll through and through.

There's not a lot of fooling around, but there is a genuine sort of light air about it all. It's a lot of work, so you sort of have to keep.

The only thing I can say about that is just we haven't seen something that fast. It wasn't overpowering, but when you're use to seeing 78-82 (mph) it's kind different. He was bringing it pretty good. He was fooling a lot of people with that breaking ball.

I've always felt like you want to do things to make the quarterback uncomfortable in there. But there's a line there between fooling him and fooling you. Mistakes are touchdowns, so you have to look at your people and decide what you can do, how much you can do.

I'm not a hitter, and I have no business getting hits. I'm just fooling some guys.

In some people's minds, a casino is going to open and a community is going to be magically transformed from a frog to a prince overnight, ... It's not that simple at all. And if anyone believes so, they're fooling themselves.

I'm not fooling myself. I don't expect my faith to turn up on the cover of Rolling Stone anytime soon or expect MTV to run the video. But I know there's an audience for it. And our album is sincere and comes from a well-intentioned place.

I want to play. When I see opportunities, I have to take full advantage of it. I'm not fooling anyone. When I get out there in the game in Providence, I'm going to go all out again.

In terms of really fooling (veteran quarterbacks like) Manning, (Dan) Marino, (John) Elway at this point in their career, they've seen every blitz, ... They've seen every coverage. They've seen every front. In terms of him standing back there scratching his head like, 'Well, I wonder what coverage that is.' I don't think that's really happening.

I know he respects me, he's fooling himself. I just hope he wears that banana hat in the ring.

Investors need to move on, ... If they still believe there is some big payday coming, they're fooling themselves.

It was more horseplay than anything else, fooling around,

It was more of a smash-mouth offense. It's designed to have options to every back, and it was fooling them and doing a lot more than we thought it would. It was a big difference.

The entire existence of the NFL - and of football at any level, for all of that - rests on whether or not the game can keep fooling itself, and its paying fan base, that it is somehow superior to boxing and to the rest of our modern blood sports.

The film industry is famous -- or infamous -- for its creative accounting techniques that can turn obvious profits into paper losses, so fooling a bunch of state bureaucrats would be child's play.

You could not operate a multimillion-dollar business without some form of IT reporting. And if you think you can you're fooling yourself,

You know, I was just fooling around but I shot a 66. They asked me to come back the next day and I shot a 65. They carried on about how good it was ? I thought it was a pretty average round ? and they got really excited and wanted me to get more involved in golf.

I can be a woodsman if need be. I grew up very close to some forest, and I spent a lot of my formative years up and down trees, fooling around in the woods. I'm no stranger to that sort of landscape.

I do anticipate that. But I can't say if or when that would happen. If he's there, he's fooling me.

When I go into the studio, I'm strictly for business... I don't like any fooling around in the studio.

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.