Overpraised Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

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

Max Lerner

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

Mason Cooley

#5. 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

#6. 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

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

Jack Kornfield

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

Yotam Ottolenghi

#9. 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

#10. 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

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

Brian Meehl

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

Eli Roth

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

Dennis Christopher

#14. 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

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

Ellen DeGeneres

#16. 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

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

Anthony Horowitz

#18. 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