
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