Innocence Quotes

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

Always changing genres, making very different films is a good idea. It's a way of making yourself feel vulnerable again, getting back to that innocence. As is working within a circumspect budget.

I would certainly say that films like Time Code and the Loss of Sexual Innocence were far more rewarding to me in terms of being able to move forward as a filmmaker.

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.

Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men.

I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion.

I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life.

And that's the mission of The Innocence Project in New York, is to exonerate people who have been wrongfully convicted, and also work from a policy angle with Congress and state legislatures to prevent future wrongful convictions.

When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.

Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.

I feel I lost my innocence to cancer.

Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.

Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics of power that exist between reader and writer, critic and artist, the human and the divine.

Louis Malle was the best filmmaker I've ever worked with. He was such an artist. He was dealing with the theme of innocence and experience.

India has the purity, the innocence. India knows what it wants. There is a direction. It has so much to offer.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

I think that freshness and that innocence is something that is missing from a lot of female singers. I'm certainly not denying that I'm young, but I'm not fluff.

I'm just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.

The decision of such judges as Claudius and his Senate is worth very little in the question of a man's innocence or guilt; but the sentence was that Seneca should be banished to the island of Corsica.

American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.

The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.

People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.

To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

America fell in love with the innocence of a kid who just was honest, saying, I did the best I could, and I had no formal training.

It doesn't bother me that Seven has such an overtly sexual presence, because she has no concept of what effect that physical package would have on some male member of the crew. That's what's fun, her innocence.

Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.