Top 100 Quotes About Overrated
#1. In my opinion, moderation is a vastly overrated virtue, particularly when applied to work
Barbara Taylor Bradford
#2. I love to read scripts. But I am very happy right now to say that I am a working actor. In this town of Los Angeles, the phrase 'I'm an actor' is overrated. So, I like to say, 'I'm a working actor.'
Jaime Camil
#3. This is why, in a nutshell, advice is overrated. I can tell you something, and it's got a limited chance of making its way into your brain's hippocampus, the region that encodes memory. If I can ask you a question and you generate the answer yourself, the odds increase substantially.
Michael Bungay Stanier
#4. I would say that it's an awfully overrated aspirin and very similar to the old people's Disneyland.
Don Van Vliet
#5. I mean, I'd love to have a private jet - I know people who fly by private jet all the time ... I've hitched a ride a few times and it is not overrated at all; it's a great way to travel!
Marc Jacobs
#7. When I was younger I used to think that band-aids did all the work. I mean after all, it binds your wound together and makes everything better back to the way it was. But then I became an adult and started to fall in love,fvi and I realize that band-aids are so overrated lol.
Onee'sha Ford
#9. Being in love is highly overrated.
book: stuff i think about
Sondra Faye
#10. I'm proud of being British, but I think our aristocracy is overrated.
Paloma Faith
#11. Capital, like capitalism, seems an overrated category.
Ernest Gellner
#12. Go to hell," he said, but there was a desolate fear in his eyes and I couldn't look away.
"Been there. Trust me. It's so overrated.
Melina Marchetta
#13. I just think Rosa Parks was overrated. Last time I checked, she got famous for breaking the law.
Stephen Colbert
#14. Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else BY GEOFF COLVIN
Daniel H. Pink
#15. I've been in love. It's painful, pointless and overrated.
Ian Somerhalder
#16. Single life is so overrated.
Rihanna
#17. The Stones are not the world's greatest band. Not even the world's second greatest band. What they are is the world's most overrated band. And it wasn't Keith or Mick who wrote "Wild Horses". It was Gram Parsons.
Jo Nesbo
#18. Perhaps we have overrated roots as a psychic need. Maybe the greater the urge, the deeper and more ancient is the need, the will, the hunger to be somewhere else.
John Steinbeck
#19. You rely too much on brain. The brain is the most overrated organ.
Woody Allen
#20. Happiness is good, but well-overrated: what we hate most are the very motivators that put us in gear. A man drifts along with little to contribute until something agitates him enough to make a difference, whether for himself or for his communities.
Criss Jami
#21. Thinking is the most overrated human activity.
Wendell Berry
#22. That's exactly the good thing about the Injun life
you don't have to stop and think about whether or not you're 'happy'
which in my opinionis a highly overrated human condition invented by white folks
Jim Fergus
#23. love is nothing but an overrated emotion that brings nothing but pain to those unfortunate enough to suffer from it.
Carole Mortimer
#25. Immortality is overrated, living for an eternity would get really old.
Ray William Johnson
#26. Larry Bird is overrated in a lot of areas ... Why does he get so much publicity? Because he's white. You never hear about a black player being the greatest.
Dennis Rodman
#28. Final cut is overrated. Only fools keep insisting on always having the final word. The wise swallow their pride in order to get to the best possible cut.
Wim Wenders
#29. If growing up means not seeing one's family and friends on the regular - all in the name of paying the bills, then growing up is overrated.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#30. The few love affairs which had come my way had been rather silly and sordid. They had not revealed the possibilities of love; in fact I had thought it a somewhat overrated pleasure, a brief and brutal blindness with boredom and disgust hard on its heels.
Aleister Crowley
#31. Here is a dirty little secret: Stock-picking is wildly overrated. Sure, it makes for great cocktail party chatter, and what is more fun than delving into a company's new products? But the truth is that individual stocks are riskier than broad indices.
Barry Ritholtz
#32. Advice is overrated. Before you learn what others know, you need to learn what YOU know.
Harriet Rubin
#33. Yes I am weird, weird is good. Normal is overrated.
Mad-D
#34. Faith is underrated. Paradoxically, religion is vastly overrated.
Seth Godin
#35. I think happiness is overrated, but joy is the key to the thousands of possible moods we can feel. And when we can rest in that joy, then peace is the moment of openness that holds all feeling.
Mark Nepo
#36. You know, when it works, love is amazing. It's not overrated.
Sarah Dessen
#38. Life direct ... is what Flaubert and Joyce have convinced themselves the man may never get quite clear of but the artist has nothing to do with. What they can't admit is that t is overrated: which artists, faking and fumbling it together out of spit and toothpicks, should know best of all.
Marvin Mudrick
#39. Love is painful, pointless and overrated.
L.J.Smith
#40. Being dead is highly overrated. It's no fun at all.
Mythe: A Fairy Tale
P.J. Gordon
#41. Most of the time, feelings just seem to get in the way. They're a luxury for the idle, a bourgeois concept. Feelings are overrated.
Nick Cave
#42. The great pyramid is overrated. It's a bad design. The lounge is going to be huge, but the bedroom is going to be tiny.
Karl Pilkington
#43. Some women enjoy unhappy love affairs, you know, though I have always felt that they are greatly overrated.
Ellen Glasgow
#44. You sure you okay?" he asked.
this time she decided to go for the truth. "No. But 'okay' is overrated.
C.C. Hunter
#46. Self-awareness is the most overrated trick in the book. More than ambition, more than free will, more than getting on to the property ladder early. Right now I should be at the Little Hills, you probably just call them the Hills, right?
David Louden
#47. And I know [other] faces aren't this colorful, this vivid, this lived-in, this superbly off-site, this brimming with dark unpredictable music. NOT THAT I EFFING NOTICE ... For the record, breathing is overrated.
Jandy Nelson
#48. It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring on live TV.
Tina Fey
#49. Vacations prove that a life of pleasure is overrated.
Mason Cooley
#50. There are some days when I, myself , think I'm overrated
Meryl Streep
#51. How long someone's been doing it is overrated. What matters is how well they've been doing it.
Jason Fried
#52. The element of surprise is vastly overrated in any relationship.
Molly Harper
#53. Let me just say this - sometimes being a trailblazer is highly overrated.
Rob Lowe
#55. Rome's just a city like anywhere else. A vastly overrated city, I'd say. It trades on belief just as Stratford trades on Shakespeare.
Anthony Burgess
#56. Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars.
Robert Anton Wilson
#57. He never had been good at going without sex. Previously, there had
never been a need to. Nearly nine weeks into the celibate lifestyle,
and he found it as overrated as getting shot had been.
Kylie Scott
#58. Speedwork is terribly overrated! I remember talking to runners after distance races and someone is sure to say they were able to run fast off base work with no speed work at all. The truth is speedwork doesn't work. Lots of miles, and then fast miles gets you there much quicker than speed work.
Gerry Lindgren
#60. You live like this long enough, a life without chances, you lose your bearings. A life without danger. A life without the risk of Now. In any event, what do I need with Now? Now, I think, is overrated. Now hasn't been working out so great for me. Now never has.
Charles Yu
#61. Holding hands in love is underrated, while sex is overrated. Don't you think so?
Kiran Joshi
#63. Single life is so overrated. It sucks.
Rihanna
#65. Real is overrated
No way in my life is that the gist
I'd be everything I am not
If I were a fictionist
A.A. Patawaran
#66. Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.
Walter Darby Bannard
#67. But stories, even very nasty ones, are traditionally considered more satisfying than reality - which, as we all know, is a grossly overrated affair.
Thomas Ligotti
#68. Magic is overrated. Courage is what matters.
Chloe Neill
#69. The power of prayer can never be overrated. They who cannot serve God by preaching need not regret. If a man can but pray he can do anything. He who knows how to overcome with God in prayer has Heaven and earth at his disposal.
Charles Spurgeon
#71. You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs.
Sarah Dessen
#72. I love the way people talk crap. I hear it all the time. 'Overrated.' 'You suck.' I'll just do something to shut them up, like, 'I'll show you.'
Bryce Harper
#74. Sexual intercourse is a grossly overrated pastime; the position is undignified, the pleasure momentary and the consequences damnable.
Lord Chesterfield
#75. His two front teeth are slightly crooked, veer just a tiny bit to the right, as if they've decided perfection is overrated. His smile is like unlocking a riddle. How does an imperfection make him seem more perfect?
Julie Buxbaum
#76. Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.
Ernest Hemingway,
#77. It seems like everybody's perception of me is very bipolar. To one group, it's overpaid, overrated; to another group, it's underpaid, underrated, underdog. It's funny to me because there's no real balance.
Jeremy Lin
#78. Truth, as he always said, was overrated, nobody ever won prizes for telling the truth.
Sarah Winman
#79. It may just be because I get homesick, but I have concluded Washington's cherry blossoms are just plain overrated.
Newt Gingrich
#82. Niceness is an overrated quality. Being nice is how a man pays his way into a party if he hasn't the guts to be tough or the class to be brilliant.
Trevanian
#83. A lot of people tend to glorify the role of satire and comedians. They put them up as role models, as fighters for the truth and against tyranny, and I think that's overrated.
Bassem Youssef
#84. Experience, then, was something that enabled you to do nothing with a clear conscience. Experience was an overrated quality.
Nick Hornby
#85. I think fitting in is highly overrated. I'd rather just fit out ... Fitting out means being who you are, even when people insist that you have to change. Fitting out means taking up space, not apologizing for yourself, and not agreeing with those who seek to label you with stereotypes.
Golda Poretsky
#86. I'm a firm believer that character is highly overrated. Character is a trick that we do with the audience's collusion.
William H. Macy
#87. Mystery is underrated, and understanding is overrated.
Larry McMurtry
#88. Common sense is a vastly overrated virtue. I myself prefer the spark of genius.
Margaret Millar
#89. While I have very little to say in favor of sex (it's vastly overrated, it's frequently unnecessary, and it's messy), it is greatly to be preferred to the interminable torments of romantic agony through which two people tear one another limb from limb while professing altruistic devotion.
Quentin Crisp
#90. Being an icon is overrated, remember an icon can be moved by a mouse
William Shatner
#91. Next to hot chicken soup, a tattoo of an anchor on your chest, and penicillin, I consider a honeymoon one of the most overrated events in the world.
Erma Bombeck
#93. Cezanne was fated, as his passion was immense, to be immensely neglected, immensely misunderstood, and now, I think, immensely overrated.
Walter Sickert
#94. Some say Twitter is overrated.
Some love it, others hate it.
I guess it depends on what you've got,
If you have guts to write a funny plot!
Ana Claudia Antunes
#95. Happiness is overrated. It comes and goes just like sadness and miseryboth fleeting. What's important is peace. With all.
Hrithik Roshan
#96. Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind. Nay, it is overrated; and it is our selfishness which overrates it.
Henry David Thoreau
#97. Don't dis the geek," J.J. said, turning his attention back to his laptop. "Diamonds are overrated; we are actually a girl's best friend.
Robert J. Crane
#99. Give me FICTION,
REALITY is OVERRATED!
Lily Velden
#100. I think sex is overrated. I don't have sex appeal and I know it. As a matter of fact, I think I'm rather funny looking. My teeth are funny, for one thing, and I have none of the attributes usually required for a movie queen, including the shapeliness.
Audrey Hepburn
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