Smartass Friends Quotes & Sayings

A terrible confession it was (he put his hat on again) but now, at the age of fifty-three, one scarcely needed people any more. Life itself, every moment of it, every drop of it, here, this instant, now, in the sun, in Regent's Park, was enough. Too much, indeed. A whole lifetime was too short to bring out, now that one had acquired the power, the full flavour; to extract every ounce of pleasure, every shade of meaning< which both were so much more solid than they used to be, so much less personal. — Virginia Woolf

The education of the senses has, as its aim, the refinement of the differential perception of stimuli by means of repeated exercises. — Maria Montessori

Nobody makes art for an elite, not if they're a real artist. You try and reach as many people as possible with whatever it is that you make. If a chef is making an omelette, he wants everyone to think that it tastes great because he did it. And if it does, then that's a success because everyone eats it. — Mel Gibson

Taste tends to develop very unevenly. It's rare that the same person has good visual taste and good taste in people and taste in ideas. — Susan Sontag

It is fair to say that science provides no method of controlling the mind. Scientific work on the brain does not explain the mind-not yet. — Wilder Penfield

But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation. — Tom Robbins

When you say ugly you mean your beauty is not now in style. — Hector Abad Faciolince

All my friends seem to be smart arses. Don't ask me why. Like many things, it is what it is. — Markus Zusak

I don't feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress. — Barbra Streisand

I would try being friends with her, but she's too busy being a smartass."

"Now you know how the rest of us feel," Jim said. — Ilona Andrews