Overpolished Quotes & Sayings

I think it was very informative, but a lot still needs to be done. — Pablo Neruda

To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude ... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary. — Ronald Blythe

The quotes were good, if overpolished. I find this common, and in direct proportion to the amount of TV a subject watches. Not long ago, I interviewed a woman whose twenty-two-year-old daughter had just been murdered by her boyfriend, and she gave me a line straight from a legal drama I happened to catch the night before: I'd like to say that I pity him, but now I fear I'll never be able to pity again. — Gillian Flynn

Make this day a tree
leaning over the river eternity
and fuss about in its branches. — Jimmy Santiago Baca

Philosophers and aestheticians may offer elegant and profound definitions of art and beauty, but for the painter they are all summed up in the phrase: To create a harmony. — Gino Severini

You can't fix people like you can solve a math problem. — Wendy Brant

It amazes me that filmmakers will still film, and audiences will still watch, relationships so bankrupt of human feeling that the characters could be reading dialogue written by a computer. — Roger Ebert

Dreams are guests who ensoul our lives if we have hospitality for them. — Jeannine Parvati Baker

The only thing strong about the French Army is their damn body odor. — Dwayne Johnson

You want to brawl. You want to fight. Fighting tricks you into believing you can change the past, even when the past is dead and gone and all of it ashes. — Ilsa J. Bick

Masculinity varies from time to time and place to place. But it doesn't exist just in the mind of a single guy: it is shared withthe other guys. It is a code of conduct that requires men to maintain masculine postures and attitudes (however they are defined) at all times and in all places. Masculinity includes the symbols, uniforms, chants, and plays that make this the boys' team rather than the girls' team. — Frank Pittman

Her father said she was a princess. He did not see that she was a brave knight. — Anne Ursu

The NCI sent (,) ... to review our funding(,) ... people connected with the nuclear establishment ... It was a pretty much foregone conclusion, that if you send people in to review the funding, who stand most to be hurt by this research, the funding will be denied. — Rosalie Bertell

These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know. — Adrienne Rich

I realized that I had a serious problem with depression, and I went to a doctor and he gave me some medication. — Donna Summer