Precocious Quotes

I hadn't been a particularly precocious reader, but everybody else in my family was. — Tom Rachman

She laughs frequently and wildly and with a sort of precocious, tragic abandon. — Tennessee Williams

I was a precocious child. — Pippa Evans

I'm 48, which is a bit of a shock to me. Why only last year I thought I was a precocious young thing! — Douglas Adams

An extraordinarily precocious mind, a political free thinker, who towered above his political contemporaries in Germany. — Franz Mehring

Even more useful, he also possessed some eerily precocious form of sage-like wisdom that allowed him to greet both failure and victory as imposters. — Mark Frost

Children sometimes know best and we chide them for being precocious. Then we grow aged and become again like children, and they call us wise. — Miguel Syjuco

... she was a pudding of immaturity and precocious wisdom that had not yet set into a stable mold. — Mark Zero

One of the troubles of our times is that we are all, I think, precocious as personalities and backward as characters. — W. H. Auden

I basically was a precocious little kid. — Michael Ironside

I fink it is a femuw. A femuw of a winowcowus ... A a-stinct winocowus. — Elizabeth Peters

Both were rather precocious, and like many precocious young people they found it hard to grow up. — Haruki Murakami

{Lucy} knew other things too, more important non-school things. She knew that when grown-ups lowered their voices it meant you had to listen harder. — Jodi Picoult

We defeated the Dark Fae King. We can cope with one precocious child. — Thea Harrison

I was this very precocious kid with a big personality. When my mother saw that modelling was something I enjoyed, she didn't dissuade me. — Carmen Ejogo

It is remarkably precocious when a person accomplishes anything after the age of thirty. — Bauvard

After 25 the only thing you'll be precocious at is death. — Patricia L. Steffy

To what lengths would so precocious an ambition not go? — Seneca.

I fell in love with Shakespeare when I was 12, and I read the whole works. Yes, I was precocious. — Claire Tomalin

I was a precocious actress in her eyes; she sincerely looked on me as a compound of virulent passions, mean spirit, and dangerous duplicity. — Charlotte Bronte

Brian Laws has lifted his team out of precocious waters — Alvin Martin

Hi there," squeaked a precocious little voice, "you are speaking to Chloe Fusakawa, and I have just learned how to answer the phone. — Gabrielle Zevin

The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies. — Lester B. Pearson

I was a wise-a** college student of twenty at the time and a precocious musician, with somewhat of that screw-you-I'm-a-jazz-player attitude. — Gene Hull

By the time I was ten, everyone knew I wanted to be a producer. I was a very precocious little boy. — Cameron Mackintosh

chauffeur of three, including a precocious, independent-minded teenage boy. — David Baldacci

I had kind of a midlife crisis at twenty which probably doesn't augur well for my longevity — David Foster Wallace

I was a precocious reader. — Norman Spinrad

I know what dissipate means, Arty. I'm not three, for heaven's sake. — Eoin Colfer

I'd rather be referred to as a precocious young Quebec talent, than not be referred to at all. — Xavier Dolan

I hate all children of precocious talent. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

A precocious mistress of the long look, the sustained smile, the private voice and the delicate touch, devices of generations — F Scott Fitzgerald

Mr. Steven Bochco is a very wise man. After a many-monthed nationwide search to find a precocious teenage doctor, he hired me. — Neil Patrick Harris