Quotes & Sayings About Young Know It Alls

Longhand isn't well suited to my way of writing. I tend to end up with dozens of pages of crossings-out and margin scribbles just to find one good paragraph, and it's easy to lose your train of thought, working like that. — Steven Hall

I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century. — Tom Wolfe

Past is past, and the future is ahead. — Robert Jordan

There are some things in this world that can be done over, and some that can't. And time passing is one thing that can't be redone. Come this far, and you can't go back. — Haruki Murakami

As a reader I want to be present and entertained. I don't want to be taught lessons, and I don't want to be spoken down to. I want to be treated as a peer and to be made to feel welcome. — Patrick DeWitt

The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble ... We want to buy them when they're on the operating table. — Warren Buffett

Men do not fear a powerful hostile army as the powers of hell fear the name and protection of Mary. — Bonaventure

A lot of films that have been adapted from books stop serving you because they become different. I mean, they are different entities in themselves, but artistically, what you're trying to achieve with a film is so very different to what you're trying to achieve with a book, and the way when you write a script is so very different on paper to how it seems on a screen. — Andrea Riseborough

Well the open-outcry auction is just made to turn the brain into mush: you've got social proof, the other guy is bidding, you get reciprocation tendency, you get deprival super-reaction syndrome, the thing is going away ... I mean it just absolutely is designed to manipulate people into idiotic behavior. — Charlie Munger

You can put a kidney in your body - and somewhere down the line, your body might reject it. — Grizz Chapman

In a way, I had such a normal life. But in another way, I saw things most kids don't see. — Miranda Lambert