Childlike Quotes

Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.

The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.

As you get older you're told to be sensible, but it's important for writing if you're a comic that you're able to still access that childlike thing.

I navigate through the world with the excitement and determination of a child. That's why I'm an artist. I'd die without an outlet for expression. Unfortunately, more often than not, that childlike energy is the maturity level I bring to many circumstances.

Having reached a point in which I was so bitter and exhausted from being a quote unquote public figure, I wanted to return to a more childlike relationship to writing.

I like crazy, childlike, candy bar-filled cakes with gooey caramel, chocolate-covered nuts, marshmallows, and the like.

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.

I mean, I'm just speaking of my own experiences and my own desires, and it's a kind of a childlike wonder that could really possibly speculate on other dimensions.

I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.

I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.

One of the characteristics I cherish in my friends is their childlike gullibility, and several excited minutes were spent trying to actually find this book.

The most creative people have this childlike facility to play.

I think there's a part, just a part of comedians, that is still childlike.

It's fun playing two roles. The roles provide a wonderful range of emotions. Stuart is childlike and sensitive. Adam is ruthless, outrageous. He's flamboyant. He does the unexpected.

I guess I do have a childlike sense of fun, and although I still have my dark days, I'm generally an optimistic person. The way things have gone in my life, sure, I could have been a bitter person. But I just find bitter people really un-fun, you know? And who wants to be that person?

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

The best actors, I think, have a childlike quality. They have a sort of an ability to lose themselves. There's still some silliness.

I quite like childlike songs, which sometimes cross over.

You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, "Am I having fun?"

It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.

He's not a child but he's childlike, he's not a grown up, he's not a kid, maybe he sounds like an elf on helium, we'll play with it.