Fooled
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Friends and family were convinced I was functioning just fine because I was efficient, productive and successful - who wouldn't be working twenty hour days? I had everybody fooled with my illness.
Andy Behrman
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I don't believe Fermat had a proof. I think he fooled himself into thinking he had a proof.
Andrew Wiles
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People who look for the first time through a microscope say, 'Now I see this, and then I see that,' and even a skilled observer can be fooled. On these observations I have spent more time than many will believe, but I have done them with joy, and I have taken no notice of those who have said, 'Why take so much trouble,' and, 'What good is it?'
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
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People have always thought that I wasn't ambitious. They judged by appearances and were fooled. I was competitive. I wanted success and was willing to work for it.
Perry Como
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Jeff Kinney is tall and has a great smile, but don't be fooled, he's as slick as they come. A real player. And how he came up with a book that appeals to kids ages 8-13 baffles me. He's an unbelievably kind man with a great family.
Rachael Harris
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People just automatically say 'If this guy is George and Barbara Bush's son, we don't have any question about those personal qualities that we were fooled on by Clinton.'
Robert Teeter
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For me, the most exciting thing is to create good magic that's entertaining for an audience, and it would be lovely if a magician was fooled as well.
Ricky Jay
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To obfuscate the reconstruction of the effect - when a magician is fooled by another magician doing magic. In my career that's not been the major passion, but it's been the passion of a number of my mentors. The crowning achievement for them would be to create magic good enough to fool other magicians.
Ricky Jay
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After granting amnesty to illegals 20 years ago, we have gone from 3 million illegals to 11 million illegals. Our government has been fooled once by this amnesty argument, let us not be fooled again.
Ric Keller
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Rhetoric, which is the use of language to inform or persuade, is very important in shaping public opinion. We are very easily fooled by language and how it is used by others.
Ray Comfort
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I can beatbox. Well, sort of. I have one beat that I can do, but people get fooled.
Rachel Platten
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I was fooled a bit during 'Laguna Beach.' I was 17, 18 years old, and I thought they just wanted to shoot a documentary, and that it probably wouldn't end up anywhere, anyway. Little did we know about the power of editing. I had no idea that it was going to be the soap drama that it was, but I picked up on that pretty quickly.
Stephen Colletti
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I shouldn't be saying this - high treason, really - but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there.
Stephen Fry
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For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
Richard P. Feynman
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Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
Richard P. Feynman
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Am I a fool? I don't think I'm a fool. But I think I sure was fooled.
Kenneth Lay
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I tell people all the time, 'Don't be fooled, because I am a man by day.'
Kellyanne Conway
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Don't be fooled. Looks can be deceptive. Like every working mother, I'm paddling away like a duck beneath the water.
Katherine Kelly
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Never let yourself get fooled by the same pitcher on the same pitch on the same day.
George Kell
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I feel as though I've fooled the world into thinking I'm an adult and now they're letting me procreate.
George Murray
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Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time.
Helen Rowland
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It's kind of a rule of thumb for me to self-doubt going into any kind of project. I always think that I shouldn't be doing it and I don't know how to do it and I'm going to fail and that I fooled them. I always try to find a way out.
Heath Ledger
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It's really not a good idea to forecast or double guess the fates; you will always be fooled.
Iman
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Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.
Julius Rosenwald
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It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled.
Joey Skaggs
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The egoist is fooled by no ideals: he discards them or uses them, as may suit his own interest.
John Buchanan Robinson
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You can't fall in love after 40; you know so much about life that you can't get fooled anymore.
Jonathan King
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I fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism.
Jayson Blair
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I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
Jack Keane
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I am playing with the assumptions that we have in our everyday life when we are tripped up or fooled and we learn something, that makes things exciting - I am having fun with that stuff, but you have to manage it so it doesn't get too cute, that's what I trying to work toward.
Jim McKay
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Every time I get a role I think, 'I've actually fooled them again, I can't believe they keep falling for this!'
Jeremy Irvine
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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
John Dryden
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Let nobody be fooled, the next two quarters are not going to be easy either in terms of growth or employment.
Luis de Guindos
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They can certainly expect to be very impressed with the technical aspects of the show, fooled and led up the garden path by the story and ultimately have a jolly good laugh!
Louise Jameson
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Anyone who thinks that people can be fooled or pushed around has an inaccurate and pretty low estimate of people - and he won't do very well in advertising.
Leo Burnett
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Everybody is vulnerable to being in relationships where they get fooled. I'm no different. It's just human nature.
Michelle Pfeiffer
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In high school, my prom date fooled around with another guy - on prom night!
Matthew Perry
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While there are many varieties of grills, each with their own virtues to be sure, I prefer the standard Weber kettle grill. Don't be fooled into thinking that you need any fancy gadgets in order to take advantage of cooking over a live fire. Just a good set of tongs and you're set.
Barton Seaver
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You look like gold. I've been fooled before, but now I know I've made the mistake in the past. But now I, now I know the difference from gold and brass.
Ben Harper
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Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of.
Charles Richards
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The way you build trust with your people is by being forthright and clear with them from day one. You may think people are fooled when you tell them what they want to hear. They are not fooled.
Dick Costolo
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My mom and dad just loved the fact that I fooled around. They just embraced it. They'd always kind of enjoy it, and they liked it when I made them laugh.
Dominic Monaghan
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Contours on the second half of a long putt have more impact on how the ball rolls because it's going slower. Adjust your speed if that last part is playing uphill or downhill. Don't get fooled by an early slope or break.
Ernie Els
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The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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I know a lot of Eastern Europeans, and because of what they have been through and what they have seen, they have an attitude where they are not easily fooled.
Francine Prose