Best Hyper Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I mean, that's at least in part why I ingested chemical waste - it was a kind of desire to abbreviate myself. To present the CliffNotes of the emotional me, as opposed to the twelve-column read. I used to refer to my drug use as putting the monster in the box. I wanted to be less, so I took more - simple as that. Anyway, I eventually decided that the reason Dr. Stone had told me I was hypomanic was that he wanted to put me on medication instead of actually treating me. So I did the only rational thing I could do in the face of such as insult - I stopped talking to Stone, flew back to New York, and married Paul Simon a week later.”

Source: Wishful Drinking

“Stardust to stardust”

Hyper Wei Hyperist

Book:Omnilogos

Source: Omnilogos

“Impossible is only a possibility that has not yet been discovered”

Infinity Hyper Wei Omnilogos Hyperist

Book:Omnilogos

Source: Omnilogos

“I found that I could write two kinds of short stories: I could write very absurd, kind of surrealistic, funny stories; or I could write very dark, realistic - hyper-realistic - stories. I was never happy with that, because I couldn't meld the two.”

Writing Kind Two Stories Found Dark Absurd Realistic Short Story Hyper Funny Story

Author:Dennis Lehane

“I suppose the common idea of me is that I'm going to be someone who's hyper and cracking jokes all the time, but people who meet me are soon disabused of that notion.”

People Ideas Common Jokes Notion Hyper

Author:Alexei Sayle

“I try to have a balance of things you like and things you don't like about a character. But once you start that, all these scripts are like, "You play the douchebag friend of Ashton Kutcher." It's all these characters that are overconfident or hyper-masculine.”

Trying Play Character Like You Balance Scripts Masculine Hyper Overconfident Things You Like Douchebags

Author:Jemaine Clement

“People tend to think astronauts have the courage of a superhero - or maybe the emotional range of a robot. But in order to stay calm in a high-stress, high-stakes situation, all you really need is knowledge. Sure, you might still feel a little nervous or stressed or hyper-alert. But what you won't feel is terrified.”

Source: An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

“I was thinking about sort of the similarities between "art movies" and lowbrow movies like kitschy sexploitation films. I think they share certain qualities, whether they're hyper-stylized or overly emotive or just very visual.”

Thinking Art Film Certain Quality Share Visuals Similarity Hyper Lowbrow

Author:John Waters

“There's not a lot of people expressing anger in the culture. They're expressing a lot of hyper-exaggerated sexuality.”

People Culture Sexuality Exaggerated Hyper Expressing Anger

Author:Courtney Love

“Reality television is a scripted hyper-life that employs writers, but won't allow them to call themselves writers or join the union.”

Reality Television Unions Hyper Reality Television

Author:Merrill Markoe

“In the hyper-sensitised reality of the region in which any criticism of Israel is swiftly and often unfairly branded as anti-Semitic, it can become counterproductive to inflame rather than explain and this means to hear the narratives of both sides, to articulate the suffering on both sides, not just the Palestinians.”

Mean Reality Suffering Sides Criticism Israel Narrative Regions Palestinian Both Sides Hyper Branded Counterproductive Anti Semitic

Author:Jane Fonda

“Crash is hyper-articulate and often breathtakingly intelligent and always brazenly alive. I think it's easily the strongest American film since Clint Eastwood's Mystic River, though it is not for the fainthearted.”

Thinking Film Alive Rivers Intelligent Strongest Crash Mystic Hyper American Film

Author:David Denby

“Hyper-selectionism has been with us for a long time in various guises; for it represents the late nineteenth century's scientific version of the myth of natural harmony all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds (all structures well designed for a definite purpose in this case). It is, indeed, the vision of foolish Dr. Pangloss, so vividly satirized by Voltaire in Candide the world is not necessarily good, but it is the best we could possibly have.”

Source: The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

“For new media reactionaries...the problem is technology, the endless distractions of the Internet, the breakdown of authority in an age of blogs and Twitter, the collapse of narrative in a hyper-linked, multi-networked world.”

World Problem Age Technology Media Internet Authority Endless Narrative Distraction Collapse Linked Blogs Breakdown Reactionaries Hyper New Media

Author:David L. Ulin

“To thrive in this new age of hyper-change and growing uncertainty, it is now an imperative to learn a new competency - how to accurately anticipate the future.”

Age Growing Uncertainty Thrive New Age Imperatives Anticipate Hyper Competencies

Author:Daniel Burrus

“We are, in fact, hyper-dimentional objects of some sort which cast a shadow into matter, and the shadow in matter is the body. And at death, what happens basically, is that the shadow withdraws, or the thing which cast the shadow withdraws, and metabolism ceases, and matter which had been organized into a dissipative structure in a very localized area, sustaining itself against entropy by cycling material in and degrading it and expelling it, that whole phenomenon ceases, but the thing which ordered it is not affected by that.”

Matter Whole Facts Body Happens Objects Materials Shadow Areas Structure Casts Cease Organized Affected Phenomenon Cycling Sustaining Hyper Degrading Entropy Metabolism

Author:Terence McKenna

“The wealth of any ecosystem is its perennials. The primal herbivore-predator-disturbance-rest dance is literally the breath and pulse of the earth. Grasses recycle oxygen far more efficiently than trees. The turnover is faster. Grass reaches out and turns solar energy into carbon. Tillage hyper-aerates the soil, burning out carbon. But because a plant creates bilateral symmetry at the soil horizon, it sloughs off root mass when the top gets chopped off.”

“There's a difference between sexy and hyper-sexy. The way I have drawn Vampirella, she's definitely sexy, I designed the costume. But her costume, through the years, has gotten briefer and briefer. She has been hypersexualized, but not by me. I mean, I see drawings in which she's got the 'brokeback pose'. I would never do that.”

Way Years Mean Has Beens Differences Sexy Drawing Costumes Through The Years Hyper

Author:Trina Robbins

“Books are surviving in this intense, fragmented, hyper-accelerated present, and my sense and hope is that things will slow down again and people will want more time for a contemplative life. There is no way people can keep up this pace. No one is happy. Two or three hours to read should not be an unattainable thing, although I hope we get to that stage without needing a corporate sponsored app to hold our hand. The utopian in me has my fingers crossed that we haven't quite figured out the digital future just yet. After all, the one thing we know about people: they always surprise.”

“Deep attention, the cognitive style traditionally associated with the humanities, is characterized by concentrating on a single object for long periods (say, a novel by Dickens), ignoring outside stimuli while so engaged, preferring a single information stream, and having a high tolerance for long focus times. Hyper attention is characterized by switching focus rapidly among different tasks, preferring multiple information streams, seeking a high level of stimulation, and having a low tolerance for boredom.”

“I was stupid when I was 17 or 18. My thought process was that I thought that I was legitimately a hyper-genius, and so I wanted to go to the hardest academic school I could to see if I was really as smart as I thought I was.”

Ifs Wanted School Process Stupid Genius Smart Hardest Academic My Thoughts Hyper Thought Process I Was Stupid

Author:Tucker Max

“In this new, hyper competitive age, none of us, none of us can afford to be complacent.”

Age Complacent Hyper

Author:Barack Obama

“Cocooning is about insulation and avoidance, peace and protection, coziness and control - a sort of hyper-nesting.”

Home Protection Avoidance Hyper Popcorn Insulation

Book:The Popcorn Report: Faith Popcorn on the Future of Your Company, Your World, Your Life

Source: The Popcorn Report: Faith Popcorn on the Future of Your Company, Your World, Your Life

“My idea about collections is that you write as hard as you can for some period and what you're really doing during that time is hyper-focusing on the individual pieces - trying to make each one sit up and really do some surprising work.”

Writing Trying Ideas Hard Individual Pieces Periods Collections Surprising Hyper

Author:George Saunders

“Twitter is really a hyper-distilled version of how the internet should work - short bursts of relatively useful information.”

Should Information Internet Versions Hyper Useful Information

Author:Chris Hardwick

“About half an hour before air time - that's when I become hyper. I put everything else out of my mind and just let that nervous energy surge through my body. I start talking faster and louder. My confidence comes up. It's actually a great feeling.”

Mind Feelings Body Energy Hours Half Talking Air Come Up Nervous Faster Of My Mind Hyper Great Feelings

Author:David Letterman

“When you hang around a lot of comedians long enough, you realize there's a certain gene, in every comedian. It's why we get hyper-analytical about things.”

Long Enough Certain Realizing Comedian Genes Hyper

Author:Chris Hardwick

“I’m quite hyper, and my wife would prefer it if I sat down and read a book.”

Ifs Book Wife Down And My Wife Sat Hyper

Author:Jamie Dornan

“Like, I'm hyper-conscious about going to bed on time, and doing my seven-step skin care routine at night.”

Care Night Steps Bed Conscious Skins Seven Routine Hyper Skin Care

Author:Gillian Jacobs

“What people ask for has nothing to do with the value of a property. You might see a listing for $300,000 and think you should make a $250,000 bid. But hyper-focus on what the house is worth. You should know what the house is worth by looking at comparable properties. Base your bid on that.”

People Thinking Knows Should Might Values Asks House Focus Property Hyper

Author:Barbara Corcoran

“I have a very hyper-sensitive sister, and when she saw in the papers the next day that I had proclaimed myself the daughter of an immigrant, she didn't like it at all, and was with difficulty deterred from writing to the press that my father might be an immigrant, but not hers.”

Writing Might Next Father Saws Paper Daughter Difficulty Presses Sensitive Immigrants Next Day Papers Hyper

Author:Margaret Case Harriman

“What I object to is the hyper-fetishized wedding day, the prioritizing of wedding over marriage. I have a real problem with couples spending far more time discussing the seating arrangement or the color of the bridesmaid's gowns than hashing out, for instance, their feelings about how they intend to handle questions of housework, child-rearing, finances and fidelity for the next four or five decades.”

“When you're writing for the screen, you have to be hyper-conscious every moment of how the audience is going to react. If you write just one scene where the audience is confused or it breaks their concentration in some way, then you've lost them, and you might never get them back.”

Ifs Way Writing Moments Might Lost Break Audience Scene Conscious Screens Confused Just One Concentration Hyper

Author:Salman Rushdie

“In stand up, you get an awareness of how you come across, but in acting there is almost a hyper-awareness on how you might be physically perceived.”

Might Acting Awareness Hyper

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the future - we are going hyper-spatial; we are claiming a whole new dimension for biology that it never claimed before. We are actually becoming a fourth-dimensional kind of creature. Our future is somehow with us, as we seem to be able to move through metamorphosis into our own imaginations - a super civilization spread throughout space and time. Our future is a mystery, our destiny is to live in the imagination.”

“Advertising is the voice of capital. We need to do whatever we can to limit capitalist propaganda, regulate it, minimize it, and perhaps even eliminate it. The fight against hyper-commercialism becomes especially pronounced in the era of digital communications.”

Needs Fighting Voice Communication Limits Advertising Eras Propaganda Digital Capitalist Hyper Commercialism

Author:Robert Waterman McChesney

“I was always with a single mom, and we never had schedules or anything. We were just Bohemian, us against the world, which was kind of great, but it certainly didn't breed security. I've gotten hyper-sensitive to schedules and bath time and eating at the dinner table. We don't just 'Bohemian' go out at nine o'clock and go get Chinese food.”

World Kind Security Mom Eating Tables Dinner Nine Chinese Clock Sensitive Schedules Baths Single Mom Hyper Dinner Table Bohemian Chinese Food

Author:Brooke Shields

“My mother's idea of natural childbirth was giving birth without makeup. She was hyper-positive - the world is a wonderful place, rainbows and unicorns. If you said anything contrary to her, you were basically exiled.”

Ifs World Giving Said Ideas Mother Natural Wonderful Birth Contrary Makeup Rainbow Childbirth Unicorn Hyper Giving Birth Wonderful Places Without Makeup Natural Childbirth

Author:Robin Williams

“There's the whole Mad Hatter's dilemma, it was the amount of mercury that they used in the glue to make the hats. Everything was damaging. So, in terms of the Mad Hatter, looking at it from that perspective of this guy who literally is damaged goods, physically damaged, emotionally a little obtuse, and taking that and deciding that he should be - as opposed to just this hyper, nutty guy - he should explore all sides of the personality at an extreme level.”

Should Littles Whole Used Guy Sides Term Levels Perspective Personality Amount Mad Extremes Hats Goods This Guy Dilemma Glue Mercury Hyper Nutty Damaged Goods

Author:Johnny Depp

“A record is something that isn't real or true. It's like cinema. It's a construction of something hyper-real and surreal and unreal all at the same time. You make a space that doesn't really exist. One of the big joys of being in this line of work is building the recorded versions of the songs.”

Real Bigs Joy Song Lines Space Records Building Versions Cinema Construction Surreal Unreal Hyper

Author:Will Oldham

“I have a hyper-active imagination, my mind tends to jump around a little, and I have some trouble between fantasy and reality.”

Mind Littles Reality Imagination Fantasy Trouble Active Hyper Fantasy And Reality

Book:Annie Hall: scénario bilingue

Source: Annie Hall: scénario bilingue

“The basic idea of a hyper instrument is where the technology is built right into the instrument so that the instrument knows how its being played - literally what the expression is, what the meaning is, what the direction of the music is.”

Knows Ideas Technology Know How Expression Music Is Built Instruments Hyper Being Played

Author:Tod Machover

“The news of my pregnancy got out when I was in the middle of my first trimester. I hadn't even had a chance to tell my friends. That alone was so ugly. It made me hyper-protective ... I feel uncomfortable with people reading too much about my pregnancy or my relationship. It grosses me out. It's too sweet to read about or dissect.”

People Feels Firsts Made Reading Chance Too Much Middle Sweet News My Friends Ugly Uncomfortable Pregnancy Protective Hyper

Author:Jennifer Garner

“I used to be hyper, throw crazy and not think about what I wanted to do with each pitch. Now I have a better understanding of what it is to be a major league pitcher.”

Thinking Wanted Used Understanding Crazy Majors Used To Be League Pitcher Hyper Major League

Author:Johan Santana

“I'm now a pretty good mix of my mother and my stepfather because I'm in general pretty mellow. I'm not hyper-emotional. But there's also this side of me - my mother was an artist and very funny and a dancer and very wild and into fashion. My stepfather traveled a lot, and I kind of took on a role of parenting my mother a lot of times, because she was pretty hard to handle. A bit of a pistol.”

Kind Hard Mother Artist Bits Sides Roles Fashion Emotional Handle Dancer Traveled Pistols Hyper Mellow Stepfathers Hard To Handle

Author:Tig Notaro

“I love the villains who are really hyper-smart. When at the end of the movie you find out what they were about, and it makes absolutely perfect sense from their point of view.”

Ends Perfect Views Smart Point Of View Villain Hyper

Author:John Lasseter

“Motherhood - no matter if you're a working mom or stay at home mom - is really tough sometimes. It can really leave us each day with a sense of wondering if we're doing it right. You know, it's a long term investment. You don't see big returns in the short term. Raising a child can easily pull you into being hyper-focused on the tough everyday moments of life.”

“The art market does represent a sort of hyper-capitalism: it produces added value without any actual work being done.”

Doe Art Done Values Produce Capitalism Being Done Hyper Added Value

Author:Thomas Koerfer

“Sometimes I'm really communicating with the audience and I'm hyper-engaged. Other times my eyes are closed and I just let it be what it is.”

Sometimes Eye Audience Communicate Engaged Hyper

Author:Alex Ebert

“I feel like I get really energetic and hyper. If I do well in a show, I can't sleep afterwards. If I don't do well, I get kinda drained. I think because it's like a battle on stage.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Wells I Can Shows Sleep Stage Battle Get Real Energetic Hyper Can't Sleep Drained I Can't Sleep

Author:Charlyne Yi

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