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Oh you know, I've been writing a novel. — Jarvis Cocker

As you know, a head is a deal heavier than it looks. That is one reason you do not want to drop it anywhere near your feet. — Claire Robertson

Angels are visible to those who accept the light and break the pact made with darkness. — Paulo Coelho

I've always had that overweening desire to be liked by the audience. — Harold Ramis

We are evidently preparing," he said, "to fight World War Three in the midst of an enormous Spanish omelet. — Kurt Vonnegut

There was no point in taking issue with Marilla's overweening self-regard. It was as infinite as a starry night. — Eloisa James

I applaud strong government, but not overweening government sustained by cronies, ciphers and a personality cult. — Margaret Thatcher

Happiness is a good business these days, more you talk crap about happiness the large number of crowd you will gather. — Santosh Kalwar

Romance is important, but to have a friend you can use as a mirror, who can give you an objective response, that's what's really important. — Jake Gyllenhaal

Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people. — Alice Neel

A taste of righteousness can be easily perverted into an overweening sense of self-righteousness and judgmentalism. — R. Kent Hughes

Time is a dream ... a destroying dream;
It lays great cities in dust, it fills the seas;
It covers the face of beauty, and tumbles walls. — Conrad Aiken

Vain indeed is all overweening pride in the conquest even of the entire universe if one has not conquered one's own passions. — Sri Aurobindo

Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance. — Alistair Cooke

there is no wrath like the wrath of being governed by my own lusts for my own ends. — Anonymous

I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult. — E.B. White

The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas. — Ralph Ellison

That there existed no earthly empire so great or overweening that it might not one day be dashed to pieces — Tom Holland

Sunday, the worst god-damned day of them all. — Charles Bukowski

Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant. — Aldous Huxley

Stupidity is no excuse of not thinking. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

I prefer to make my living honestly. — Arnold Rothstein

You put on a pair of Louboutins and the world changes colour. — Rossy De Palma

You have the courage and will to overcome your fear and do what's required. — Henry H. Neff

Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all. — Henry Ward Beecher