Oversmartness Quotes & Sayings

Women today are dealing with both their independence and also the fact that their lives are built around finding and satisfying the romantic models we grew up with. — Jane Campion

The fact that Nellie wasn't any one person but rather a composite of three of the real Laura's antagonists' worst traits makes her even more terrifying, some kind of blond Frankenstein assembled from assorted bitch parts. — Wendy McClure

Man is so made that if he is told often enough that he is a fool he believes it. — Blaise Pascal

I wouldn't hunt a person down for food. But if he were already dead. — Yasmine Bleeth

I've been attracted to Kate Moss since I was a teenager. — Ryan McGinley

It goes only down to a certain point and then it stops. As long as there is that untouched point, it's not really pain. — Ayn Rand

She begins, "What is the question we spend our entire lives asking?" and answers, "Our question is this: Are we loved? I don't mean by one another." She closes her sermon to the snakes with these words: "I am like you, curious and small. Like you, I pause alertly and open my senses to try to read the air, the clouds, the sun's slant, the little movements of the animals, all in the hope I will learn the secret of whether I am loved. — Pat Schneider

Everything that surrounds us becomes part of us, it seeps into us with every experience of the flesh and of life and, like the web of a great Spider, binds us subtly to what is near, ensnares us in a fragile cradle of slow death, where we lie rocking in the wind. — Fernando Pessoa

The less money and time you have, the more you haveto plan ahead and be careful about your coverage. It's like a gas:it expands or contracts depending on the size of the container. — John Sayles

No one sits on the stoop when she's a kid and thinks, 'I want to be a biographer when I grow up.' — Stacy Schiff

The first thing I saw when I opened my eyes was a burst of light so warm and red it could have been the sun or someone's beating heart. I stared up at it, waiting for the room to come clear. — Brenna Yovanoff

Such a man has a double existence: he may suffer misery, and be overwhelmed by disappointments; yet, when he has retired into himself, he will be like a celestial spirit that has a halo around him, within whose circles no grief or folly ventures. — Mary Shelley

Any nonsense come out they mouth. Some got the gift to make you laugh out loud, and others preach strong and spread the word of God. — Lalita Tademy