Overrated Quotes

The wild stuff is all so overrated. Drinking, you don't feel good all the time. There's a lot of down, a lot of misery.

I agree, intellectualism in photography is overrated. I just wish it could be replaced by common sense.

Reality is overrated to me. Everyone spends enough time on the computer, eating, going out to bars. Why do I need to read a book about that?

I have to say that some philosophers such as the late Bernard Williams, and I would include myself in this group, would say that tranquillity is overrated as the goal of life.

I'm severely overrated. I'm just above a hack.

I don't have any terrific self-esteem issues but I do sometimes realise I've been too lucky and that I'm over-praised. It makes me nervous. I have this sense of being overrated.

Your least favorite virtue, or nominee for the most overrated one? Faith. Closely followed—in view of the overall shortage of time—by patience.

I always thought problem solving was greatly overrated - and that the most important thing was problem creation.

I've always thought that problem-solving is highly overrated and that problem creation is far more interesting.

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

Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so.

Churchill was one of the few men I have met who even in the flesh give me the impression of genius. George Bernard Shaw is another. It is amusing to know that each thinks the other is overrated.

Spin is overrated. It is strategy, not spin, that wins elections.

I would say that it's an awfully overrated aspirin and very similar to the old people's Disneyland.

Sometimes when I read about my rebellion in print it sounds a little overrated.

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

The Internet is overrated. It's much smaller an innovation than people think it is. I don't think it's changed the way anybody makes music.

I want to change as many lives as I can, I want to help as many people as I can and I want to let people know that serving and doing for people is not outdated and certainly not overrated!

Next to hot chicken soup, a tattoo of an anchor on your chest, and penicillin, I consider a honeymoon one of the most overrated events in the world.

Capital, like capitalism, seems an overrated category.

Would I have been happier? Maybe. But then, happiness was overrated.

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.

Having everything your way is highly overrated.

Popularity is totally overrated.

Success is overrated.

Maturity is highly overrated.

Everyone wants to grow up to be a faerie princess. Trust me, It's overrated

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

Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time.

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.

Being human is overrated.

Movements are overrated and invented by the press. Ask any artist if they feel or felt part of a movement - the good ones will all say no.

I don't want to say that having power is overrated, but powerlessness can give rise to a different kind of authority, and that's the kind of authority that writes books.

I think being central to the culture is overrated. Who really gives a damn if something is popular? Jay-Z isn't actually any better than James Joyce even though more people understand him.

There are some days when I, myself, think I'm overrated... but not today.

The cat wrinkled its nose and managed to look unimpressed. "Calling cats," it confided, "tends to be a rather overrated activity. Might as well call a whirlwind.

Goodbyes are overrated.

I'm proud of being British, but I think our aristocracy is overrated.

Being a martyr is highly overrated.

A smart woman would have shut up. Did I? Hell no. Intelligence is overrated anyway.

Single life is so overrated. It sucks.

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.

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

We don't need to be taught to make art, but sometimes we need permission to do so. Following instructions is overrated.

Bullhorns are overrated: having ten times as many Twitter followers generates approximately zero times as much value.

Perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring." I smile. "You don't think I'm perfect?" "No. You're delightfully screwy, and I wouldn't have you any other way.

When it comes to dressing, comfort is overrated. A little discomfort probably means your clothes fit and they're not pajamas.

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

The sexual revolution of the 1960s was mostly a movement of young people. I felt that the so-called "free relationships" were overrated.

Tolerance to my mind has been greatly overrated . . . . I take as much pleasure in detesting the good brothers and sisters of the [Anti-Saloon] League as they have in hating me.