Best Overrated Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

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“After a few minutes, he decided that kissing wasn't that hard, really, although it certainly wasn't everything it was cracked up to be . . . He tried closing his eyes but it made him uncomfortable, like someone was going to sneak up behind him and plunge a knife into his back.”

Humor Kissing Disappointment Overrated Kristen Roupenian You Know You Want This Letdown

Book:You Know You Want This: Cat Person and Other Stories

Source: You Know You Want This: Cat Person and Other Stories

“According to Sarah, who had gone two years ago, prom was famous for being an overpriced disappointment where most people had no fun.”

Humor Fun High School Disappointment Ya Accurate Teens Overrated Prom Jaded World Weary

Book:Say What You Will

Source: Say What You Will

“Experienced people tend to keep doing the same things they’ve always done and then defend their way if someone does the same job differently and better...instead of continuing their learning and leadership.”

Different Leadership Creativity Experience Value Job Better Overrated Continuos Learning

Author:Richie Norton

“Frankly though, bud, your criteria for what constitutes a good date is kinda skewed, if you ask me. Homemade cookies are overrated man -- trust me on this. You can find a decent bakery just about anywhere you go.”

Dating Cookies Overrated Date Bakery

Book:Baby, I'm Yours

Source: Baby, I'm Yours

“Don’t overate your experience to hide incompetence.”

Character Age Leader Experience Competence Incompetence Overrated Scale Scaling Scalability

Author:Richie Norton

“Civilization is overrated: but there isn't anything much else.”

Poetry Poem Civilization Overrated

Book:Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke

Source: Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke

“Not all expensive meals are delicious, and not all delicious meals are expensive.”

Meals Expensive Delicious Hype Overrated Foodie Meal Cheap Costs Overpriced

Book:Night of a Thousand Thoughts

Source: Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“Yeah... yeah you van practice all day authenticity and authentic self. But lets be honest its kinda overrated!”

Yeah Day Overrated Authentic All Kinda

Book:How to Talk to Anyone

Source: How to Talk to Anyone

“Gifts are overrated. Hugs are underrated.”

Funny Gifts Overrated Underrated Hugs

Author:Maxime Lagacé

“Complete package is overrated. We're not a complete package, we're the package we're completing together.”

Inspirational Quotes Motivational Quotes Love Quotes Relationship Quotes Marion Bekoe Marion Bekoe Quotes Marriage Quotes Overrated Couples Quotes Complete Package

Author:Marion Bekoe

“Some say Twitter is overrated. Some love it, others hate it. I guess it depends on what you've got, If you have guts to write a funny plot!”

Love Hate Communication Internet Social Media Feedback Social Networking Twitter Overrated Twitter Quotes Twitter Audiences Twitter Nation Twitter Mind

Author:Ana Claudia Antunes

“Hemingway is overrated, Twain is even more lost at sea, And all truths point to the mouth of a woman, Where both her whispers and her screams, Are born. Pour another glass, Beer, wine, whiskey, I don't care, So long as its wisdom is sharp, And it tells lies instead of promises.”

Truth Poetry Hate Poet Birth Promise Alcohol Woman Poems Whiskey Whispering Loathing Overrated Booze Hemingway Twain Screams

Book:The Kaleidoscope Syndrome: An Anthology

Source: The Kaleidoscope Syndrome: An Anthology

“Directors tend to be more underrated than overrated because it's a quiet job and people don't really understand it.”

People Jobs Quiet Directors Overrated Underrated

Author:Todd Phillips

“Vanity's really overrated. When I was 20, teenage girls had my picture on the wall... I don't need to be pretty anymore. I just am who I am.”

Needs Girl Wall Who I Am Vanity Teenage Overrated Teenage Girl

Author:Michael J. Fox

“The most overrated ingredients are garlic and extra-virgin olive oil. With garlic, it's personal; I have never been that big of a fan of its flavor. As for extra-virgin olive oil, I do use it quite often but its ubiquity serves to overshadow many wonderful oils like pistachio, walnut, argan and even grapeseed.”

Use Bigs Wonderful Fans Oil Extras Ingredients Virgins Flavor Overrated Olives Garlic Olive Oil Walnuts Ubiquity Pistachios

Author:Lela Rose

“Happiness is good, but well-overrated: what we hate most are the very motivators that put us in gear. A man drifts along with little to contribute until something agitates him enough to make a difference, whether for himself or for his communities.”

Men Wells Littles Enough Hate Community Differences Making A Difference Gears Overrated Agitate

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Uggs. I think they're ugly. And I think big sunglasses are kind of overrated. I like big sunglasses but not those huge, round ones.”

Thinking Kind Bigs Huge Rounds Ugly Overrated Think Big Sunglasses Uggs

Author:Justin Bieber

“Cezanne was fated, as his passion was immense, to be immensely neglected, immensely misunderstood, and now, I think, immensely overrated.”

Thinking Passion Immense Misunderstood Neglected Overrated Cezanne

Book:Walter Sickert: The Complete Writings on Art

Source: Walter Sickert: The Complete Writings on Art

“What is Time... That you speak of it so subserviently? Are we to be the slaves of the sun, that second-hand, overrated knob of gilt, or of his sister, that fatuous circle of silver paper? A curse upon their ridiculous dictatorship!”

Hands Time Speak Sun Paper Slave Ridiculous Circles Curse Silver Dictatorship Overrated Second Hand Knobs

Book:Titus Groan

Source: Titus Groan

“I think vision is highly overrated today. I think what really blesses a ministry is, if you want the power of God in your life, its humility and integrity. I'll take a person who's humble and has integrity over a person who has vision any day. A lot of people have vision just based on ego, but it's in that dependence upon God that we get His vision and develop more trust in Him.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Persons Today Vision Humility Integrity Ego Humble Bless Ministry Dependence Overrated Power Of God

Author:Rick Warren

“Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.”

Economy Virtue Modesty Overrated

Book:Interviews with John Kenneth Galbraith

Source: Interviews with John Kenneth Galbraith

“Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.”

Way Needs Artist Originality Great Art Great Artist Overrated

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“The most overrated tool: a pasta maker. Why make it when you can buy it? It's a lot of work!”

Tools Makers Overrated Pasta

Author:Ina Garten

“It is possible that the malice of writers has been overrated (by myself among others). Reading their ruminations on their craft, one sees why this writer could not possibly like that one, would indeed consider him a menace. Literature is a battleground of conflicting faiths, and nobler passions than envy are involved.”

Has Beens Passion Reading Literature Involved Envy Crafts Malice Menace Overrated Battleground Rumination

Book:The good word and other words

Source: The good word and other words

“My parents read to me a lot as a kid, and I started writing very early, probably spurred on by Aesop's fables. Then they gave me The Lord of the Rings way too early for me to fully understand what I was reading, which was actually kind of cool. It was almost better - comprehension's overrated when you're reading.”

Way Writing Kind Kids Reading Parent Lord Rings Comprehension Fables Overrated

Author:Jeff VanderMeer

“Suffering for your art is most definitely overrated but I do get a certain, I don't know, satisfaction from being able to deal with my paranoia and insecurity.”

Knows Art Able Certain Suffering Deals Art Is Satisfaction Insecurity Paranoia Overrated

Author:Beth Gibbons

“Verbal ability is a highly overrated thing in a guy, and it's our pathetic need for it that gets us into so much trouble.”

Needs Guy Ability Trouble Pathetic Overrated

Author:Nora Ephron

“This walking business is overrated: I mastered the art of doing it when I was quite small, and in any case, what are taxis for?”

Art Cases Walking Taxi Overrated

Book:And Yet...: Essays

Source: And Yet...: Essays

“Capital, like capitalism, seems an overrated category.”

Seems Capitalism Categories Overrated

Book:Nations and Nationalism

Source: Nations and Nationalism

“It's hot rain and humid days and broken thermostats. It's screaming and raging steam engines and wanting to take your clothes off just to feel a breeze. It's the kind of kiss that makes you realize oxygen is overrated.”

Feels Kind Realizing Broken Kissing Clothes Rain Hot Rage Engines Breeze Oxygen Steam Overrated Steam Engines

Author:Tahereh Mafi

“I'm contemplating thinking about thinking...but....it's overrated - just get another drink in!”

Thinking Drink Contemplating Overrated

Author:Robbie Williams

“Mutual funds are an overrated investment heavily promoted by Wall Street.”

Streets Wall Investment Fund Mutual Overrated Mutual Fund

Book:Crash Proof 2.0: How to Profit From the Economic Collapse

Source: Crash Proof 2.0: How to Profit From the Economic Collapse

“Being human is overrated.”

Humans Being Human Overrated

Author:Mark Penn

“Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.”

Two Home Culture Computer Congress Desperate Overrated Felicity

Author:Quentin Crisp

“The first three championships that I won, I won them. I had big numbers and I won them. And last year, the guys won it for me. They won it for the big guy. Numbers are overrated. There's a lot of guys in this league who can say they've got great numbers. But they can't say they've got four rings in the last six years.”

Years Firsts Bigs Lasts Guy Three Winning Numbers Four Basketball Six Rings League Last Year Championship Overrated Big Guys

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“Sexual intercourse is a grossly overrated pastime; the position is undignified, the pleasure momentary and the consequences damnable.”

Funny Pleasure Position Consequence Intercourse Overrated Momentary Pastime

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“The story's what matters; spelling's overrated.”

Matter Stories What Matters Overrated Spelling

Book:The Salinger Contract: A Novel

Source: The Salinger Contract: A Novel

“Death is a greatly overrated experience. I hated Mother's and I'm not looking forward to my own. Apart from the sorrow there are the bills to be paid. Nobody dies for free.”

Mother Dies My Own Sorrow Paid Bills Hated Looking Forward Overrated

Author:Rita Mae Brown

“I don't want to die. I think death is a greatly overrated experience.”

Thinking Want Dies Overrated Wanting To Die

Book:Bingo

Source: Bingo

“Some women enjoy unhappy love affairs, you know, though I have always felt that they are greatly overrated.”

Knows Felt Enjoy Affair Unhappy Love Affair Overrated

Book:Works

Source: Works

“I think happiness is overrated, but joy is the key to the thousands of possible moods we can feel. And when we can rest in that joy, then peace is the moment of openness that holds all feeling.”

Thinking Feels Moments Feelings Joy Keys Mood Openness Overrated

Author:Mark Nepo

“Common sense is a vastly overrated virtue. I myself prefer the spark of genius.”

Common Virtue Genius Common Sense Sparks Overrated

Author:Margaret Millar

“All I have learned about horses is that they are beautiful overrated creatures and are all born quite insane.”

Beautiful Born Creatures Horse Insane I Have Learned Overrated

Author:Cornelia Otis Skinner

“I believe that the subconscious always knows what is best. It is our conditional, vastly overrated rational mind which screws everything up.”

Thinking Knows Mind Believe I Believe Rational Subconscious Screws Overrated Conditional

Author:Robyn Davidson

“Like any of life's refining fires, cancer is a potentially profound learning experience. So what did I learn? I learned that profound learning experiences are vastly overrated.”

Fire Profound Cancer Illness Overrated Learning Experience Refining

Author:Joni Rodgers

“I think sex is overrated. I don't have sex appeal and I know it. As a matter of fact, I think I'm rather funny looking. My teeth are funny, for one thing, and I have none of the attributes usually required for a movie queen, including the shapeliness.”

Thinking Knows Matter Facts Sex One Thing Including Teeth Appeals Queens Attributes Matter Of Fact Overrated Sex Appeal

Author:Audrey Hepburn

“I think on some level, role models are overrated If you require a role model who looks just like you to be something you wanna be and you can't find one, is that a reason to not be what you wanna be? No!”

Ifs Thinking Looks Reason Levels Roles Like You Models Role Models Overrated

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

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