Top 100 Quotes About Overrated
#1. Popularity, my dear, is as overrated as a large member.
Sarah Winman
#2. Suffering is overrated. It doesn't teach you anything.
Bill Veeck
#5. Reality is overrated to me. Everyone spends enough time on the computer, eating, going out to bars. Why do I need to read a book about that?
Blake Butler
#6. I think Les Moonves is the most highly overrated person in television.
Donald Trump
#7. You picked a lemon, throw it away lemonade is overrated. Freaks should remain at the circus, not in your apartment. You already have one asshole. You don't need another. Make a space in your life for the glorious things you deserve. Have faith.
Greg Behrendt
#8. Do you ever tell the truth?"
"Once. In fourth grade. It was overrated.
Gemma Halliday
#9. Dignity is overrated. You know what trumps dignity? Kissing.
Nina LaCour
#10. Ruling the world is overrated. It would really cut into your leisure time.
Shanna Swendson
#11. Because we were dead, we could see everything. And because we were dead, it didn't matter what we could see. So the whole seeing-things-from-the-grave concept? Majorly overrated. All you ended up seeing was more than you wanted to in the first place.
Kami Garcia
#12. Instant gratification is so overrated. It's about the process. It's the difficulty. It's the grind of all of it that you better enjoy. That's what makes it great.
Bob Myers
#14. Extra-marital sex is as overrated as pre-marital sex. And marital sex, come to think of it.
Simon Gray
#15. With all due respect, the Mona Lisa is overrated.
Paulo Coelho
#16. Bullhorns are overrated: having ten times as many Twitter followers generates approximately zero times as much value.
Seth Godin
#17. Mutual funds are an overrated investment heavily promoted by Wall Street.
Peter Schiff
#18. You're a slightly peculiar lady, aren't you?' Agatha asked.
Drusilla waved Agatha's comment away. 'Normal is completely overrated.
Jen Turano
#19. The idea of loving someone no matter what they do is overrated, not to mention largely impossible.
Meghan Daum
#20. No one could ever truly be free as long as they loved, and life wasn't worth living without love. So freedom? Overrated.
Gena Showalter
#21. Fiction is overrated, Fly. We've discussed this. In the time it takes those novelist fuckers to contemplate a few poetic passages, a thousand kids die from malnutrition. Immediacy, man, that's what counts.
Rawi Hage
#22. I don't want to say that having power is overrated, but powerlessness can give rise to a different kind of authority, and that's the kind of authority that writes books.
Matthew Specktor
#23. Vatican City is a bit overrated in my opinion - no offence to the Vatican.
Ed Stoppard
#24. The Constitution is awesome, but still overrated; it's like Pet Sounds.
Chuck Klosterman
#25. None of us can foresee the consequences of such a step." Ponce de Leon ran his fingers through his hair, smoothing it back into place. "Though after centuries of watching mankind, I sometimes suspect intelligence is overrated.
Jim C. Hines
#26. Intelligence is overrated. Two dogs who sniff each others' butts learn more about each other in a moment than many humans understand about those they've known for a lifetime.
James Rozoff
#27. Motivation itself generally lasts about two plays - it's highly overrated," he said. "Give me a team that has a business-like attitude, a team that can deal with adversity when it comes.
Monte Burke
#28. I'll tell you an explanation that I find commonly overrated and speculative in the extreme: the idea that things that succeed in popular culture do that because they hit the temper of the times.
Cass Sunstein
#29. Destinations are overrated, as long as your moving, your going somewhere
Sarah Dessen
#30. New ideas are one of the most overrated concepts of our time. Most of the important ideas that we live with aren't new at all.
Andy Rooney
#31. Now that he was semidressed, I recovered enough to say, "Not really. But I guess if you want me to hold a conversation with you, you should keep your clothes on."
He gestured for me to follow him through the house, and I thought I heard him mutter, "Conversation is so overrated.
Renae Kaye
#32. Stability was overrated. Crises and adventures, on the other hand, could actually teach you something.
Sarah Addison Allen
#33. Immortality was overrated, as far as he was concerned. Hardy had enough problems as it was; living forever sounded like a death sentence for someone with his practical sensibilities.
David S.E. Zapanta
#34. Once I fucked you, it would be all over for me. I had to have a guarantee I could get you back. Christ, Blue, the first time I saw you, I wanted to throw you over the couch and fuck you."
Blue flushed but smiled a little. "So why didn't you?"
"Common decency."
"Highly overrated.
S.E. Jakes
#35. Brute strength is overrated. With the right skills, a does can defeat a lion.
Brittany Comeaux
#36. I tried sex once with a woman and that woman was Gala. It was overrated. I tried sex once with a man and that man was the famous juggler Federico Garcia Lorca [the Spanish Surrealist poet]. It was very painful.
Salvador Dali
#37. Poverty's potential for character building is far overrated.
Steve Perry
#38. Churchill was one of the few men I have met who even in the flesh give me the impression of genius. George Bernard Shaw is another. It is amusing to know that each thinks the other is overrated.
David Low
#39. A strangely prolonged lunch involving lobster, that infernally overrated food ...
Claire Messud
#40. Confidence is overrated. It's when we're uncomfortable and looking for answers that we learn and grow the most.
Barbara Corcoran
#41. We have loyalty, fidelity, honor
All three are overrated. The only chance you have to demonstrate any of them is to deny yourself something or someone you desire.
Kresley Cole
#42. As for discipline - it's important, but sort of overrated. The more important virtue for a writer, I believe, is self-forgiveness. Because your writing will always disappoint you. Your laziness will always disappoint you.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#43. During her lifetime, Marilyn Monroe was underrated as a dramatic actress, and this rightly rankled her - but she was also overrated as a comedienne.
Eve Golden
#44. Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues ... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time.
Malcolm Gladwell
#45. I think being central to the culture is overrated. Who really gives a damn if something is popular? Jay-Z isn't actually any better than James Joyce even though more people understand him.
Matthew Specktor
#47. Roselyn corseted Shane in her second best bodice, causing Shane to question in gasps how women who could not heal cracked ribs managed the feat of breathing.
"Breathing," Roselyn assured her, "was overrated.
Thomm Quackenbush
#48. Uggs. I think they're ugly. And I think big sunglasses are kind of overrated. I like big sunglasses but not those huge, round ones.
Justin Bieber
#51. Yes. Growing up is highly overrated. Just be an author.
Neil Gaiman
#52. Speaking to the subject is the most overrated thing in journalism,
David Remnick
#53. Sometimes the future is overrated.
Kim Holden
#54. The story's what matters; spelling's overrated.
Adam Langer
#55. As a social good, I think privacy is greatly overrated because privacy basically means concealment. People conceal things in order to fool other people about them. They want to appear healthier than they are, smarter, more honest and so forth.
Richard Posner
#56. Perfect is highly overrated. I'm a character in my story, going through the chapters of my life as if it was written by an imaginary person, when I should be the author. - Elle
Vi Keeland
#58. You have to let people see what you wrote. It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated.
Tina Fey
#59. Views are overrated; it's light that counts. I have an apartment in Miami's South Beach, and I get tired of looking at the ocean. Even that view gets old after a while. Sunlight streaming into a room - it never gets old.
Michael Graves
#60. Study's overrated. Just find someone smart to copy off. -Adrian to Lissa
Richelle Mead
#61. Everyone wants to grow up to be a faerie princess. Trust me, It's overrated
Laurell K. Hamilton
#62. We tournament golfers are much overrated. We get paid to much.
Tom Watson
#63. Meanwhile, Morris settled into his seat with his signature slouch, neither knowing nor caring where I was taking him. Like destinations, in general, were vastly overrated. And maybe they were. As long as you were moving, you were always going somewhere.
Sarah Dessen
#66. Striving to 'be the best' is overrated & not smart. Grow to become only 1% better than your top competitor in your chosen field(s) of expertise.
Gary Patton
#67. I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite good ... Maybe you're not the best, so you should work a little harder.
Jay Leno
#68. Sometimes it's just over and you can't make it all right. Justification by works: an overrated idea.
Salman Rushdie
#69. In retrospect it becomes clear that hindsight is definitely overrated!
Sergio Aragones
#71. I believe the subconscious always knows what is best. It is our conditioned, vastly overrated rational mind which screws everything up. So
Robyn Davidson
#72. If being seen as worthy of employing is the best that school does for the schooled, then school is overrated.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#74. Having everything your way is highly overrated.
Joyce Meyer
#75. Philanthropy is ... greatly overrated. A pain in the gut is not sympathy for the underprivileged, but the result of eating a green apple; the philanthropist gives to ease his own pain.
Henry David Thoreau
#76. Happiness is overrated. There has to be conflict in life.
Brad Pitt
#77. Love was overrated and nature used it to kick us in the gut and trick us into reproducing.
Georgia Cates
#79. He wished they could just be naked in his bed and not worry about words. Talking was overrated anyway.
Savannah Stuart
#80. Seth Meyers is highly overrated as a comedian.
Donald Trump
#81. Vanity's really overrated. When I was 20, teenage girls had my picture on the wall ... I don't need to be pretty anymore. I just am who I am.
Michael J. Fox
#82. It is worth noticing that those who assume an imposing demeanor and seek to pass themselves off for something beyond what they are, are not unfrequently as much underrated by some as overrated by others.
Richard Whately
#83. Cynicism is overrated, and far too easy. In small doses, cynicism
like irony
provides an essential tempering quality. But to wallow in it, and to dismiss things like hope and faith, is cowardly and unoriginal.
Michael Perry
#84. Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.
Larry Wall
#85. The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.
Orson Welles
#87. Neymar is massively overrated.
Neymar
#88. The sexual revolution of the 1960s was mostly a movement of young people. I felt that the so-called "free relationships" were overrated.
Volkmar Sigusch
#89. My view of the internet is that it is way overrated in what it's done to date but considerably underrated in what it will do.
Tyler Cowen
#90. Okay," I gasp. "I can't really breathe, but other than that, okay."
"Breathing's overrated," Gabriel advises me."I'm discovering that right about now with this damn tie.
Carolyn MacCullough
#91. I'm severely overrated. I'm just above a hack. That should be the name of my new DVD: 'Chris Rock: Slightly Above Hack'.
Chris Rock
#93. I think age is terribly overrated. You're okay as long as you don't grow up. By all means grow old, but don't mature. Remain childlike, retain wonder, the ability to be flabbergasted by something.
Billy Connolly
#94. I was in Afghanistan for a while. Sand is overrated if there isn't a beach there to accompany it. I've probably still got sand in places I don't care to mention." "Maybe one day you'll find a pearl in your shorts," Joe said, grinning a gap-toothed grin.
Liliana Hart
#95. I think the 20s are a vastly overrated decade. We promise kids that once they get out of school, life will begin and their dreams will come true. But then comes the struggle.
Tyne Daly
#96. Like any of life's refining fires, cancer is a potentially profound learning experience. So what did I learn? I learned that profound learning experiences are vastly overrated.
Joni Rodgers
#98. Love is actually overrated except when you are in love
Subhasis Das
#99. For what it's worth, I think perfect love stories have perfect disasters hidden somewhere. If a genuine relationship comes out of two people screwing before they saw the potential of the 'relationship'? Its perfect, beautiful, a work of art in fact.. Normal is overrated.
Nike Thaddeus
#100. I'm contemplating thinking about thinking ... but ... it's overrated - just get another drink in!
Robbie Williams
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