Overpraised Quotes

#1. Losing your innocence has very little to do with virginity, you know. Loss of innocence comes when you have to deal with the real world by yourself, when you learn that the first rule of life is kill or be killed. So different from one's nursery stories." She

Shirley Conran

#2. You're nothing if you're not special.

Anthony Horowitz

#3. I'll always remember the day Daddy took me on a journey . . . the day history was made with one million men and me.

Kelly Starling Lyons

#4. I'm sure there's somebody out there who doesn't like Betty White because she's short and has white hair.

Ellen DeGeneres

#5. I have been both overpraised and underpraised. I assume by the time I finish writing
and I plan to go on writing until I'm 90 or gaga
it will all equal itself out.

Edward Albee

#6. Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.

Anita Brookner

#7. I'm such a perfectionist. I always feel overpraised or whatever. In the abstract, I know I'm a good person, a good professional. But it's nice to be noticed a little bit, ain't it?

Jack Nicholson

#8. There were two things I wanted to be: an actor and a hippie.

Dennis Christopher

#9. When I was filming the death scene [in Inglourious Basterds], and I'm killing somebody, I had to work myself up.

Eli Roth

#10. What happened to the first vampire who fell for the first mortal? She turned him into a sucker

Brian Meehl

#11. Both in individuals and in masses violent excitement is always followed by remission, and often by reaction. We are all inclined to depreciate whatever we have overpraised, and, on the other hand, to show undue indulgence where we have shown undue rigor.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#12. The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.

Seneca The Younger

#13. American capitalism has been both overpraised and overindicted. It is neither the Plumed Knight nor the monstrous Robber Baron.

Max Lerner

#14. Inconsistency has been overpraised by people who do not expect to suffer from it.

Mason Cooley

#15. Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That's not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that's what life needs to be - and that if it's not that, it's all screwed up. It's not.

Tom Brady

#16. Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.

E. M. Forster

#17. The moment to tell my barber I was gay just never came up.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#18. We need a warrior's heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.

Jack Kornfield